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To secure the room …

Once your happy with your chosen room.  it is quick and easy to secure your perfect place.

Things to consider

• You will need to pay the holding fee for the room to be held and secure for you whilst you complete the application.
• You will have 10 days to complete the application and upload your ids.
• The holding fee paid comes from the first rent due once approved.
• Once we accept and approve you , if you change your mind you will lose the holding fee.
• If we do not proceed , you will get the holding fee back
• If you give fraudulent information or delay the process past 10 days . you will lose the holding fee.

1. We will require your full name, email and contact number

2. We will need to know the date you would like to check in / for the tenancy start

2. You will be invited to our management platform to complete your application.  Please fill in the application and upload required IDs.

3. You will need to pay a holding deposit of 1 weeks rent to the details below.  The holding deposit is not a extra fee, this amount comes off the final balance due on completion.

Rooms to Let NE Ltd

Account 29933277

Sort code 50-00-00

You should reference your deposit with the reference given in stage one of the application process.  Once you have sent the holding fee.  Please acknowledge by pressing the button in Tab 1 – sent the holding fee.

Your manager will confirm this when received.

• Each part of the process , you will receive updates in the portal, so you can keep track of progress.
• For referencing to be a smooth process, best practice is to upload all the required ids and add your information.  Without missing vital information.
• This Holding fee holds and secures the room for you whilst you complete our application and  referencing.  If you do not pay a holding fee , we cant stop another applicant from booking the space.

Move in Costs:

5 weeks rent as a deposit or £300 – as stated in the adverts / and in your application form

1 months rent before collection of keys . ( the holding deposit you paid , is deducted from this rent balance )

Below is a summary of items you should get ready for your application

• Passport
• Visa
• Bank statement
• Proof of address
• Share code- Right to rent
• Employment details
• Income details
• CAS letter
• Guarantor info – if needed
• Proof of student status and id
• Current or previous landlords
• The last 3 years of addresses

Any questions , please do not hesitate to contact your agent.

We estimate the confirmation and signing of contracts , takes place within 10 working days . A little longer in peak season .

Once successful ….

• You will be invited to our tenant portal  to review and sign your documents.  We will set up your account.
• Review and sign all contracts ,
• You will automatically receive all these in an email once complete.
• You will pay the remainder of your monies due.  Deposit  – first months rent less the weeks rent already paid to secure.

You pay this too the details below.

Rooms to Let Ne Ltd

Sort code 50-00-00

Acc no.  29933277

The deposit is held in DPS and the certificate will be in your tenant account for you to view online.

We will then invite you to Rooms to Let North East – tenant Perks Scheme for you to get discounts on top brands whilst you stay with us. You will have access to your tenant portal and access to report maintenance . As well as added to our chat group.

Welcome to ROOMS TO LET North East

We hope you enjoy your stay….

Rooms to Let North East is a house share specialist agency – we provide many homes to working professionals, students, contractors and health care workers in the North East. Areas, Newcastle, Durham, Sunderland, Washington and Darlington.
We help each individual find the perfect room. Sharing homes with like minded people.
Many properties have made snappy 360 tours – you can view online – reducing the stress of searching for the perfect place
We have a friendly team – property manager, cleaners, maintenance and fire safety
All bills included – meaning one easy payment per month
Low deposits – Low move in costs
Free complimentary Wifi
House chat APP- Communicate easily with your housemates and keep updated

Join our app to keep a check on your tenancy and track your payments. Join our rewards scheme . Live in affordable, safe, secure accommodation. We are Safe Agent accredited !

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Winter Weather Tips

If you have a central heating system, you may also have a room thermostat to monitor and control the temperature in your home – it sends a signal to the boiler telling it to switch off when the house is warm enough.  It’s usually found in a hallway or sitting room.

Some modern heating controls now combine a heating timer and the thermostat, allowing you to set different temperatures for different times of the day.

Below 13° – If your home is this cold, it may increase your blood pressure and risk of cardiovascular disease.

14-15° – If your home is this cold, you may be diminishing your resistance to respiratory diseases.

16° is the recommended night time bedroom temperature.

19-21° is the recommended daytime temperature range for occupied rooms.

24-27º is too warm and can put babies and young children at risk.

Keeping Warm

1. Set your heating to come on just before you get up and switch off just before you go to bed. If it’s very cold, set it to stay on longer, rather than turning the thermostat up.
2. Close the curtains when it’s getting dark. Tuck them behind the radiator and shut the doors to rooms you use most to keep the heat in.
3. Stay warm with a hot water bottle or electric blanket – but don’t use both at the same time.
4. Off mains gas or electricity? Keep a sufficient fuel supply to avoid running out in winter.
5. Have regular hot drinks and eat at least one hot meal a day if possible. Eating regularly helps keep energy levels up during winter.

Top Tips

• Radiator reflectors
• Tape up cat flaps or things causing drafts
• Sofa blankets
• Draft stoppers
• Hot drinks
• Thick curtains
• Let daylight in during the day
• Don’t obstruct the radiators
• Hot water bottles
• Layers – warm clothes
• Onesies – hoodies

Storms :

Please during storm season , be mindful of any bad weather due .  If there are items in the gardens make them secure.  Don’t leave windows open or not on a latch. All doors secure.

As a  tenant it is really important that you have your own contents insurance.  Without contents insurance your belongings are not protected against any damage caused in your rented property.  You cannot expect your landlord to reimburse you for items lost or damaged if the property floods.

The property you rent is your home and you have a certain duty to look after it.

• Make sure you know where the stopcock and the mains electricity switch for the property are located.
• Check that you have property management contact details
• Inform us  if you are going to be away from the property during a period of bad weather.

If your pipes do freeze, you will need to act quickly to reduce the risk of them bursting.  You should:

• Turn the water supply off at the stopcock.

• How to locate your stop valve – YouTube

• Try to thaw the pipes, by placing warm towels or a hot water bottle on them or using a hairdryer on its lowest setting.  Pipes must be thawed slowly, never use a blowtorch or exposed flame.

If the worst happens and the pipes burst, you should:

• Turn the water supply off at the stopcock.
• Inform your landlord.
• Try to stop any escaping water with blankets, buckets or towels.
• Turn off your central heating, immersion heater and any other water heating systems.
• Drain the system by turning on all your taps and flushing the toilet several times.
• Check if there is a risk of electrocution and switch of the mains electricity supply if there is.
• Inform any neighbours who may be affected.

if something happens to cause damage in your home, you must notify us immediately.

You’ll need to report the following:

• What has happened.
• What damage has been caused.
• What, if anything, you have done to try to repair the situation.
• Whether the damage has affected neighbouring properties.
• Whether the property is habitable.

As with all repairs that the landlord is responsible for, your landlord will have to make steps to carry out repairs within a reasonable timeframe.  In some cases, the landlord’s insurance company may cause a delay or the landlord may have difficulty finding a plumber or electrician if lots of other people are having similar problems.

Holiday Period

All tenants must ensure precautions to be taken to protect properties from the results of freezing.

Over the holiday period, many tenants will wish to go away and visit relatives and friends. I would ask you to observe some simple precautions if you intend to be away from the property for longer than 24 hours during the winter period (from the beginning of December to the end of April).

For most properties it will be necessary to: –

Keep the central heating on a low or normal setting to maintain a temperature of between 55/60 degrees F and leave the trap door to the roof space open; OR – Turn off the water supply and shut down and drain any central heating boiler and associated pipework.

To do this, you will need to turn off the water supply at the main stopcock and open all taps, hot and cold, to drain water from roof storage tank and pipes.

Circulating water central heating systems will also need to be drained (and refilled on return before re-starting).

Whilst this is general advice, the characteristics of each individual property may be slightly different. If you are unsure how to take appropriate measures to protect the property whilst you are away, or if you plan to be away for a week or more, please do not hesitate to contact us.

If you are leaving the property for long period of time through the winter months , please inform us so we can make arrangements to keep a check on it.

Your room is inclusive of bills .

Inclusive bills are capped at normal usage only .

Excessive usage and over the top of normal use will be  billed to all tenants at the property.

Please be responsible with electric and gas use at the property

• Do not leave things running – or plugged in if you are not using them
• If you are cold, wear more clothes before considering the heating!  I have witnessed people with the heating on full blast walking around in shorts – hardly any clothes on ? – Make sure you have adequate bedding, quilts / sheets on your bed ( all properties have thermostats to keep the property in comfortable heat- no one should be too hot or too cold)
• Fans and electric heaters eat up lots of electricity – Also banned items for fire safety.
• Do not leave lights on
• Turn off communal lights
• Do not have the heating on and the windows open ? – the two do not go together. Not only is the boiler over working you are wasting gas !

Items not to be installed / used in rooms – Rooms To Let North East – Rooms to Rent in the North East (roomstoletne.co.uk)

Tips for energy saving

Heating – this probably costs you the most, so make sure you’re not wasting heat:

• Put on another layer before you turn the heating on. Remember, lots of thinner layers keep you warmer than one big one.
• Make sure your furniture isn’t right up against your radiators. It will block the heat.
• Close the curtains when it’s getting dark and tuck them in behind the radiator. This keeps heat in the room.
• If there’s a room you don’t use much, turn down the radiators in there and close the door so you don’t waste energy heating it. (But don’t turn those radiators off completely or the room may get damp over time.)
• Turn the thermostat down by one degree to save 10% on your bills. If you have health concerns, are elderly or have small children in the house, don’t go below 18C.

• Turn the heating completely off overnight and when no-one is in the house use the central heating timer to do this for you automatically.
• Stay warm at night with a hot water bottle – much cheaper than an electric blanket.
• If you have night storage heaters, find out how to use them properly , so you don’t waste money.

Fridges and freezers – they’re using electricity all the time, so it’s worth helping them use less:

• Keep your fridge temperature between three and five degrees C.
• Dust or vacuum the coils coming out of the back of your fridge and freezer – this will help them run better.
• Pull your fridge and freezer away from the wall a bit – there needs to be air flow so that heat can escape from the back of them.
• Defrost your freezer regularly to remove the build-up of ice. It’ll help it work better.
• When you’re defrosting food, leave it in the fridge. This helps cool your fridge for free.
• Don’t put hot leftovers in the fridge or freezer, wait for them to cool down first.
• Try to keep your freezer as full as you can – lots of frozen items keep each other cold so your freezer doesn’t have to work so hard.

Cooking

• Only boil as much water as you need in your kettle. Don’t fill it right up for one or two cups of tea.
• If you have an electric hob, boil water for cooking in the kettle first, rather than boiling it on the hob.

• When you’re cooking, keep lids on your saucepans. You’ll be able to turn the hob down and use less electricity or gas.
• Match the size of the saucepan you’re using to the size of the hob it’s on. Then you won’t waste heat.
• Keep the oven door shut as much as possible when you’re cooking – every time you open it, you lose a quarter of the heat.
• Cook more than one meal at a time and freeze it for another day.
• Use a microwave for small items of food and reheating things, rather than the oven – it’s cheaper.

Washing

• Clean the fluff out of your tumble dryer filter every time you use it.
• Tumble dryers use a lot of electricity, so only use them if you really need to – dry your clothes outside if you can.
• If you need to dry clothes inside, don’t dry them on radiators. Hang them on a clothes airer in a room near an open window, and close the door. (This stops your house getting damp and mouldy too).
• Only put the washing machine (or dishwasher) on when it’s full. Two half loads use more water, detergent and electricity than one full load.

• Wash clothes at 30 degrees to save electricity. Most modern fabric detergents work just as well at 30 as they do at higher temperatures.
• Press the “eco” button on your washing machine if you have one. It usually takes longer, but this is because it heats the water more slowly, using less electricity.

Hot water

• If you have an electric immersion heater, turn it down one degree – you won’t notice the difference. But don’t go below 60C – you need it that hot to kill all harmful bacteria in the tank.
• Don’t leave your hot water heating on all the time. It’s much cheaper to set the timer  to heat it up for a couple of hours each morning (or in the night).
• Keep your showers to four minutes (especially if you have an electric shower – they use a lot of electricity).

More things you can do for free

• Don’t leave your mobile phone on charge all night, they only need two or three hours. Why not charge it while you’re eating dinner?
• Don’t use the remote control to turn things off – this leaves them on standby. Get up and press the button or turn them off at the plug. A typical household could save between £50 and £90 a year just by remembering to turn off appliances left on standby.
• Allow as much natural light into the house as possible to reduce your use of electric lights.

If you can afford to spend a small amount, it will pay off in the long run as you save on your gas and electricity bills.

• Get a slow cooker – they are much cheaper to run than an electric oven, and you can leave them cooking overnight.
• Install reflective panels or foil behind your radiators to reflect heat back into the room.
• Replace old light bulbs with energy efficient ones or LED bulbs, which use much less electricity.
• No carpets? Get some rugs for the winter to keep heat in.
• Get some simple draught-excluders to stop heat escaping through cracks.
• Buy a warmer duvet for the winter, so that you don’t need any heating on overnight.

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The fridge needs to be cleaned out regularly. Make a rota.  Make it a rule that anything dodgy should be thrown out.

If food is rotten or it smells bin it. It doesn’t matter whose it is. Get rid. A three week old lump of Camembert left open in the back of the fridge has to go

Don’t  eat anyone’s food

Be mindful of food your saving.  If you’ve put half a takeaway in there with probably no intention of eating it . Just bin it to save space in the fridge

Chip in together for milk.  Instead having several bottles taking up space in the fridge

Work together to allocate fridge and freezer space

Don’t fill the fridge with cans of Stella or cans of Pepsi then complain when you cant fit your food in.

Keep check on your freezer food.  If you have frozen fish from 2 year ago – probably needs the bin.

When you leave the accommodation you should clear your food cupboards and fridge – freezer . Often people will forget so if they have –  Please can you help by binning it to create space.

Welcome to your new home

Changing address is one of the biggest jobs when moving house

We have organised a handy  list of companies to contact

Employer

National Insurance

School- College , University

Doctor

Dentist

DVLA

HM Passport Office

Bank

Building Society

Utility Companies

Telephone services – mobile phone

Council Tax- register of electors

Tv Licence

Credit card Companies

Finance and loan companies

Savings accounts

Life Insurance

Pension and investment companies

Car Insurance

Home insurance

Mail order

Breakdown policys

Professional institutes and bodies

Clubs and societies

Internet services

Library

Organ donars

Amazon , paypal

FINALLY ENJOY YOUR NEW HOME, POUR YOURSELF A DRINK

Checking out of your property

1. Make sure the property is clean and tidy and just as it was handed over to you
2. Make sure you don’t leave any extra items – added furniture that is not ours
3. Don’t take away any of our items- Do not steal our appliances !
4. If you have replaced flooring – blinds fixtures and fittings these must remain – or you put our fixtures back !!
5. All of your personal belongings must be removed
6. The property to be clean and tidy throughout including bathrooms – toilets- ovens- appliances etc ..
7. Do not leave any rubbish in the property or in the yards – gardens
8. Any damages to be  fixed and rectified before check out
9. Moving out waste to be disposed of- Bins empty and not over flowing
10. All sets of keys given at the start of the tenancy must be returned at the end (by 10am check out day)
11. A forwarding address must be supplied along with your bank details – please email these.
12. List of all utility companies supplied to us
13. Gardens to be cut and maintained as they were at the start of the tenancy
14. All debt you owe to be paid off- dont leave us with brighthouse – provident and pay as you go carpet debt chasers
15. DO NOT take your gas meter with you .  Not cricket blowing up your previous address the debtors will still find you.
16. Your rent account with us is up to date – cancel your direct debit – standing order
17. Gas electric and broadband all paid and re routed to new address
18. Mail transfer set up
19. Inform council tax
20. Paid weekly goods – suppliers updated to where you are going to

When leaving the accommodation please provide the following information

Your name

Property address

Forwarding address

Contact telephone number

Gas and electric supplier – meter reads

Water reads if req

Email address

Please provide your account and sort code for the return of your deposit

Delays in getting the keys and information to us will cause a delay in receiving the deposit back

We will check everything has been left in good order and process the end of your account and release of deposit

We hope you enjoyed your stay with us and good luck on the next adventure.

Checking out of your room

1. Make sure your room is clean and tidy and just as it was handed over to you
2. Make sure you don’t leave any extra items – added furnishings.
3. Make good any walls you have marked – damaged
4. All personal belongings must be removed ( remember to check all areas and even at the back of drawers . You be amazed what can fall down the back or underneath)
5. Your en-suite must be left clean – especially your shower doors and toilet area
6. Clean the shower trap
7. Do not leave any rubbish in the room or at the property. Rubbish charged at £50 call out then per item.
8. Any damages fixed and rectified before check out
9. Clear out your food cupboard and fridge and freezer space. Don’t leave food for others. If you want to give them food make sure it moves to their drawer and space. You will be billed for anything left.
10. YOUR Moving out waste does not go into the general waste. You must arrange a separate collection or pay a private firm , or take it away with you when you leave.
11. Moving out waste creates problems in the general waste for months . Bins are monitored on a week 2 week basis so we know if there has been a dump of moving out waste.  You will be billed or deductions made from your deposit.
12. All sets of keys given at the start of the tenancy must be returned at the end
13. A forwarding address must be supplied along with your bank details – please email these.
14. Any bedding or linen supplied must be washed and folded up

When leaving the accommodation please provide the following information

Your name

Property address and room

Forwarding address

Contact telephone number

Email address

Please provide your account and sort code for the return of your deposit

Delays in getting the keys and information to us will cause a delay in receiving the deposit back

We will check everything has been left in good order and process the end of your account and release of deposit

We hope you enjoyed your stay with us and good luck on the next adventure.