Letting to students

I sometimes despair at the quality of advice given to prospective landlords in our national news papers.  The articles written by jobbing journalists are as accurate and useful as an undergraduates dissertation.  A collection of vaguely related topic on students, property and letting property produced by people that have no interest and certainly no real experience of letting property.  A few dubious rental yields and the odd meaningless strap line like "buy-to-let booming" and what have you got?  A totally useless non article that misleads more than it informs.

For as start there is no such thing as letting to students.  Anybody in the know is aware that are we talking about two very distinct groups; undergraduates or post graduates.  They are very different beasts.  The former are likely to put up with less salubrious areas and be packed in like sardines (after all it's all part of the student experience).  The latter are more akin to young professionals and will require higher standards of accommodation and will not be prepared to live like a member of the Waltons.

I've written in length about letting to students.  Follow the link and hopefully it will inform and not mislead.

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