WITH demand for rented housing likely to soar due to the credit crunch, the Association of Residential Letting Agents has warned agents and landlords not to take advantage by cutting corners.
ARLA pointed out that both the law and best practice has moved on a long way since the housing crisis of the early Nineties produced soaring rental demand, cowboy agents and rogue landlords.
Nowadays, as well as the duty of care that landlords and letting agents owe to tenants, compliance with new legislation and operating to a code of best practice is seen to be in the interests of everyone
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