Maintenance

As a landlord, you could be forgiven for thinking of maintenance as a frustrating fact of life – a cost for which you get little benefit.

Yet at Locate, we think of maintenance very differently. For the landlords we work with, maintenance is an opportunity. It’s an opportunity to:

• Create better, more sought after properties
• To increase the rental and even capital value of a property
• To build better relationships with tenants
• To turn short term lets into longer leases, and reduce void periods
• To protect the properties in your portfolio
• To ensure you are compliant with all necessary regulations

We’ll maintain your properties for you

Whilst the list of benefits of keeping your properties well maintained is long, that still doesn’t necessarily mean you want to spend your days with a toolbox in hand, fixing leaky pipes or awkward locks. So let us.

Since 2004, we’ve built a maintenance team of over a dozen trusted, specialist tradesmen. And for a single maintenance management fee, we can place them all at your disposal.

So when your tenants have any sort of problem, they call us, and we arrange for a member of the maintenance team to fix it fast, reliably, and cost effectively. Simple.

Maintenance tailored to your portfolio

Like every service we offer at Locate, the maintenance packages we offer can be tailored to you, your portfolio, your tenants and your business model. The price of each package is designed to balance healthy profits with the essential maintenance that keeps properties safe and tenants happy.

Maintenance work could include:

• Gas safety checks – including boiler safety and certification
• Electrical checks, including PAT testing (on appliances) and alarm testing
• HHSRS hazard safety checks – protecting tenants – and protecting you against claims
• Joinery – including kitchen fitting and door hanging
• Carpet fitting and wooden/laminate floor laying
• Plumbing and heating repairs
• Painting and decorating
• Plastering and tiling
• Glazing
• Furniture and rubbish removal
• Key cutting and lock changing
• Gardening