Letting Agents In Nottingham & West Bridgford

Professional Letting Agents Based In West Bridgford, Nottingham.

Letting and managing high standard apartments to let in Nottingham, Flats to rent in the best Nottingham locations and Houses to rent in West Bridgford, Gamston and the surrounding villages.

We offer apartments to let in The Lace Market, The Park & District, The Ropewalk, Mapperly Park & West Bridgford.

Landlords request a Management Prospectus here

Hutchings & Butlin also manage a large selection of high calibre student apartments

We are one of the largest private providers of student housing in Nottingham and are retained by a major property investment consortium.

Landlords interested in student management or investment - read more

Family Property To Rent In West Bridgford

We offer the highest standard property management for quality West Bridgford homes. West Bridgford is a very desirable location for young couples and families looking to rent rather than buy. West Bridgford has excellent shopping, fascilities & schooling, and is often the first choice of an increasing number of prospective professional tenants.

The Hutchings and Butlin letting team are local to West Bridgford and the surrounding villages and have an excellent knowledge of the locality.

Our company boasts the patronage of some corporate investment clients who demand high standards of property management, and this same high level of management expertise is increasingly earning our company an enviable reputation with West Bridgford landlords.

Hutchings and Butlin has operated in the locality for over 15 years.

Landlords request a Management Prospectus here

Why choose Hutchings & Butlin as your Nottingham and
West Bridgford letting agents?

Hutchings & Butlin is a very well established Nottingham letting agent so you will be dealing with a knowledgeable and professional letting team who will be keen to assist you with your search for a suitable apartment or house to rent. The key to our success in Nottingham letting is that we only manage good quality properties situated in the highest demand locations within the Nottingham City Centre or in the nearby and sort after suburb of West Bridgford, being some two miles from the Lace Market & Nottingham City Centre.

Prospective tenants are shown a selection of apartments or houses to rent and if interested we organise a reference for the prospective tenant through Homelet, a professional referencing/credit check service. Homelet can often supply a reference within 48 hours and there is only a small charge to the prospective tenant for this service.

 Landlords request a Management Prospectus here

Where is our office?

Call in to see our helpful and approachable staff or....

We will do our very best to find you the property you want to rent and will be pleased to add your details to our free mailing list to keep you updated about our properties to let.

Tenant Possessions Insurance

Whats covered;

• Accidental damage to TV, audio, video, DVD and computer equipment
• Accidental damage to your Landlord's contents, building, fixtures and fittings - £2,500
• Valuables like jewellery - up to 33% of the total insured
• Pedal cycles - up to £200
• Frozen food - £250
• Money and credit cards - £100 each
• Cost of changing locks if your keys are stolen - £250
• Contents in your garage, shed or outbuildings - £500
• Contents in your garden - £200
• Cost of alternative accommodation - up to 30% of the total insured
• Personal liability - £1 million

Landlord Direct & Hut But Tenants -  Book A Property Online

If you have viewed a property and would like to speed up your confirmation then book the property online :

Step 1

Please complete a Tenancy Application - Tenant Reference Form

Step 2

You will need to pay from £50 incl vat before your reference report can be processed. (The cost quoted is from £50 per reference or guarantor reference). This fee pays for Hutchings & Butlin, to process a credit and tenant reference on your behalf, and to produce Tenancy Agreements and Bank Standing Orders for new tenants. 
Tel 0845 602 2506 select: Accounts Dept
(If for any reason the property is not available for your occupation please note the £50 fee is non-refundable, however our Accounts Department will check the availability of the property before taking payment from you)

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Step 3

Our Lettings team will contact you to arrange for your property booking to be completed

Report a Repair / Fault with your property

Rather than getting stuck on the phone, make sure your request for assistance gets directly through to our repairs section, by using our repair email reporting system.

24 Hour repair call outs

Many of our landlords take out maintenance service agreements on their properties to cover out of hours repair call outs. You will be given details of emergency telephone numbers at the commencement of your tenancy.

As a guideline tenants should act as ‘a reasonable householder’ and only order out of hours repairs if an occurrence seriously threatens your safety, security, or may result in significant damage to the property. Such call outs are thankfully rare.

Please refer to some general household emergency telephone numbers:

Gas - Transco - 0800 1199

Electricity - All Suppliers - 0800 056 80 90

Water Supply - Severn Trent - 0800 783 4444

Glazing - J Boseley & Sons - 0115 978 4386

Locksmith - Halls - 0115 9780141

(please note you will be responsible for any lost keys, you may therefore find that you need to pay a locksmith upfront if you make a call out, late at night)

Rent account enquiries

Get up to date rent account information, use our accounts email request system

All our tenants are expected to pay the rent due in monthly instalments by bank standing order. We set this up for you at the commencement of your tenancy.

For the security of our staff, and to meet regulatory guidelines, cash payments are not accepted unless by prior agreement.

If you should experience any difficulties with your rent payments the key is to discuss this with our accounts department quickly. Late payments should be avoided, and can attract administration charges to you. Remember you can pay by debit card by phone to avoid a late payment:

T. 0845 602 2506 select: Accounts Dept

Tenant deposit – Legislation

It is good news for both tenants and landlords, that the government has now set out a procedure relating to the return of Tenant’s Deposits at the end of a tenancy.

A professional inventory will be taken at the commencement of your tenancy, and one copy of this inventory will be supplied to our tenant/s. We encourage tenants to notify us of any additional information or changes to the inventory within 10 days from the commencement of their tenancy, you can make sure your comments reach our inventory clerks directly by using our inventory email reporting system

Hutchings & Butlin Ltd is a fully bonded agent, and as such is authorised to hold deposit monies in a protected account on behalf of both the tenant and landlord.

If there should be any disagreement between the landlord and tenant at the end of a tenancy then the matter is automatically referred to the The Dispute Service  an official body set up by the government to oversee and adjudicate in tenant deposit disputes.

Things to do before your deposit can be returned

You will receive a reminder letter prior to the termination of your tenancy, setting out what you need to do, although it very much a matter of common sense, just like any other householder moving house, you need to finalise your utility accounts, showing copies of your final utility bills to the agent, and of course all tenants must return the property keys to the agents office during office hours. (keys should not be posted through the office letter box), they need to be properly receipted by the agent.

Please note that rent payments are completely separate to deposit monies. Rent owed is rarely taken from a tenant’s deposit, but will continue to show as an arrear for credit purposes.

How a Tenancy Agreement works

Well, all new private rented Tenancy Agreements have to be formatted by law in a standard way, and landlords or agents cannot contract out of this standard form of tenancy agreement.

This standard tenancy agreement is called: an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST)

Important facts a tenant needs to know:

1. An AST guarantees your right to live at a property for a Fixed Term.
   Neither the landlord or tenant can end the tenancy until this Fixed Term expires
2. If neither the landlord or tenant serve notice to end the tenancy after the Fixed Term has expired, then you need do nothing, your AST allows you to automatically stay on at the property on a month to month basis. This gives tenants a lot of flexibility, especially if they are expecting to have to move for employment etc at some time in the near future.
3. To end an AST the landlord must give you two months prior written notice.
4. To end your tenancy you must give the landlord one months prior written notice. Your notice must be delivered to the agents office, at...
   Hutchings & Butlin, 34 Musters Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 7PL.
   Please note that any notice period has to fall in line with the calendar date of your tenancy, for example if your tenancy started on the 1st of the month, then any notice served by you must be received by the agent prior to the 1st of the month, if that particular month is to count as part of the notice period
5. The conditions of the Tenancy Agreement are the do’s and don’ts that apply, they are generally self explanatory and expected by tenants as common sense conditions.

I will point out some conditions that prospective tenants may not be aware of:

• You are not allowed to sub-let (rent) your property to another person
• You have a legal duty to notify the agent of any repairs or faults that may cause damage to the property quickly, acting as a reasonable tenant/householder
• You must not cause a nuisance to neighbours eg; noise from music or audio equipment
• You are not allowed to run a business from the property, unless agreed with the landlord
• If you rent a flat, you must comply with the directives set down by leasehold managers employed to look after the block of flats you are living in, they may involve disposal of refuse, safety/fire instructions etc.

Take time to read through your tenancy agreement and ask if you are not sure.