Lessons on Renting

We've been living in our new house for just over a month now. I wanted to look back and see what we've learned about the renting process - particularly when you move out - and share our findings in a blog post. This is a fairly general guide, but please note any legal bits will be specific to the UK. What we did wrongWe learned a few harsh lessons and they largely amount to being too trusting. This is a shame as our new landlord is very casual and yet we will need an element of formality to ensure things end well when we move again. We trusted that the landlord wouldn't take advantage of our honesty. We didn't take enough photos of how we left the property. We should have insisted on the letting agent doing the final check-out inspection - this would have led to a formal report with an opportunity to include any concerns at the time of the inspection. As a result of these errors, we lost £200 of our deposit and fell out with the landlord. In the big scheme of things, this wasn't…