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6 Responses to “how do estate agents check that prospective tenants are in employment and not just claiming benefit to pay?”

1. Choot, on May 21st, 2010 at 3:57 pm Said:

   You have to apply to live in a rental. They can do a background check on you.

2. schwildcat1977, on May 22nd, 2010 at 1:14 pm Said:

   We call the employment reported in the application to verify it. No tenant should ever be allowed to move in if they just “have enough to cover the first few months”. No landlord with any experience or in their right mind would ever accept a tenant that just has savings and no reasonable means of supporting themselves!!

   No landlord is required to take housing.

   I don’t know what state your in but this is why benefits should never be paid to the tenant and that it is NOT done this way in most states.

   That plan would never work unless you found a really stupid landlord that did not check anything. Also if anyone did ever manage to pull one over on their landlord and was allowed to fraudulently move in to a place that does not allow housing, then they would get evicted as soon as the landlord found out.

3. Back to the drawing board, on May 23rd, 2010 at 7:18 pm Said:

   Het probleem uw verwant zou hebben is dat de meeste eigenaars en het laten van agenten om verwijzingen, voor karakter, capaciteit vragen te betalen enz. Als een prospectieve huurderscan? ? ? t levering een werkgelegenheidsverwijzing de agenten nog gewoonlijk om een bankverwijzing vraagt, en de bank zal weten dat het geld uit DSS zodat komt uw relatieve wouldn? ? ? t kunnen zeggen was zij zelf – tewerkgesteld of levend op besparingen of iets anders. Here? ? ? s de raad aan eigenaars bij het krijgen van verwijzingen.
   There? ? ? s wat algemene informatie van Schuilplaats hier met al het andere over huren die aan uw verwant nuttig zouden kunnen zijn:
   Ik weet dat een paar raden lijsten van het laten van agenten bijhouden die aan mensen op DSS zullen laten, zodat is het altijd waard het vragen.
   Dit is waarschijnlijk niet heel wat praktische hulp op het ogenblik aan uw verwant maar er is een interessante bespreking hier over gehele ? ? ? geen DSS? ?l]The problem your relative would have is that most landlords and letting agents ask for references, for character, ability to pay etc. If a prospective tenant can’t supply an employment reference the agents still usually ask for a bank reference, and the bank will know that the money comes from the DSS so your relative wouldn’t be able to say she was self employed or living on savings or anything else. Here’s the advice to landlords on getting references.
   There’s some general information from Shelter here with everything else about rentals which might be helpful to your relative:
   I know that a few councils keep lists of letting agents who will let to people on DSS, so it is always worth asking.
   This is probably not a lot of practical help to your relative at the moment but there is an interesting discussion here about the whole ‘no DSS’ issue:]

4. Margaret S, on May 26th, 2010 at 11:23 pm Said:

   References/payslips etc

5. Jenjen, on May 28th, 2010 at 11:00 am Said:

   When my fella signed up to rent a new house through an agency, he had to provide three months worth of payslips and contact details for the place he works so they could verify he worked there. I have a friend whos on benefits and living in rented accomodation, he gets around it by living with students and paying his benefir cheque directly to the landlord, that might not be a plausible situation for your relative but there are ways around it otherwise all people on benefits would be homeless or homeowners (which is not always affordable) or living with parents and I’m sure these can’t be the only options available so don’t dispair- try your local council for housing maybe? xxx

6. Rich B, on May 29th, 2010 at 5:14 pm Said:

   The property.
   An up to pay the property.