Depending on the location, their insurers may refuse to cover the property if it is not inspected once a week and will certainly load the premiums.

If you are living abroad or are only able to visit your home infrequently it has to be assumed that you would prefer not to spend the duration of your visit gardening, arranging repairs, delivery of fuel etc, etc and most of the time you are not here, worrying if the property is safe, secured, watertight and not damp.

You may even have decided not to buy or even sell because you do not have anyone to look after your property.

To put your mind at rest we have introduced a service whereby we will carry out weekly inspections of unoccupied property, organise any works required, as detailed below, and arrange payment of bills.

External inspection

Internal Inspection

• Visual check of walls, ceilings and floor to identify water ingress and pipe leaks

• Check windows secured

• Set and check timed lights/alarms, floodlights

• Check heating operation - set for season

• Water plants as instructed/required

• Flush down toilets, rinse down basins, bath, sink, disinfect as appropriate

• Visual check for vermin

• Collect mail

Fees & Costs

Monthly charge for weekly inspections from £76.32

Mail forwarding £35.28 for 6 months plus postage.
Deposit balance of £30 required.

Periodic

• Monthly check of meter readings included in monthly charge

• Organise garden maintenance

• Arrange and supervise carrying out and completion of maintenance or repair work, liaising with Insurers as required and arranging payment. Charges to be agreed prior to any work commencing and appropriate funds to be put in place.

• Additional visits to property in emergency or on owners instructions £20.00 /hour

Payment of Bills

• We can arrange the payment of periodic bills for water, gas, electricity, oil etc, read meters and pay Council Tax and Insurance premiums if and when the owners have put us in funds.

• The benefit to the owner is they only have to make one payment per month to us and we send out payment to the various utilities, having checked meter readings, the Local Authority, fuel supplier or Insurers.

• The monies would be held in our Client Account against any such authorised expenditure.

  We will provide monthly statements and expect the owner to maintain an agreed level of balance with us. Needless to say, if we do not have the funds available we cannot pay the bills.

Our fees would be based on an initial setup charge of £25 which includes computerised banking, thereafter £5.00 per payment.

Deposit