Tenants and tenancies

Recording a tenancy, inviting a tenant, agreements, renewals and endings.

• Finding your tenants Everyone renting from you, across the whole portfolio, in one list.
• Inviting a tenant Give a tenant a way to reach you, report problems and see their rent.
• Adding a tenancy Put the lease into Abodient, either from the contract or by hand.
• The tenant portal What your tenant sees and can do in their portal, and what reaches you when they report a repair, message you, view a document or say they have paid rent.
• Referencing a new tenant Ask a new tenant for Right to Rent, income, credit history, a reference and a guarantor, then decide.
• Ending or renewing a tenancy One warning, two outcomes — renew it, or close it out without losing the history.
• Protecting and returning a deposit Meet the 30-day protection deadline, and hand the deposit back at the end without a dispute.
• The move-in checklist What the move-in checklist covers, how it ticks itself off, and how to skip or dismiss it.
• Moving a tenant out The steps for moving a tenant out, from forwarding address to deposit and the next tenant.
• Company lets and student lets What the Company let and Student let switches do, and why they cannot both be on.