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How to advertise your property

Introduction

Studentpad and The Aston University's Students' Guild offer the most cost effective and simplest method to let your property/ies quickly and easily. Instead of incurring high costs advertising your property through traditional methods and wasting time and money advertising in places where students don't look, let studentpad.co.uk facilitate the process.

Studentpad works very closely with  Aston Students' Guild and as such you need to join The Aston Students' Guild Scheme (see below for details) to be able to advertise on the web site. The  Aston Students' Guild solely use the studentpad software to advertise your properties. In turn, all of the students are referred to The Students' Guild studentpad website and it is therefore very successful for registered landlords.

Property management module

By registering you will also be able to utilise a number of features which will help you in your day to day tasks , free of charge. These functions include the ability to allow you to manage your maintenance works, send automatic rent reminders to students and remind yourself when gas certificates are due. New features including contract management, online fault reporting and key management will be available soon.

Photographs

Although not compulsory, photographs do make a huge difference to your advert. This is what one of our customers commented; "many people remarked on the photographs, saying how helpful it was to be able to see photos .. Perhaps you could encourage landlords to enclose photos - it's certainly to their advantage" 

Electrical Inspection

To accompany your advert the SAC asks landlords to provide proof that the house is covered by an electric periodic inspection report issued by an approved body. Approved bodies currently include:

BRE Certification Limited;
British Standards Institution;
ELECSA Limited, part of FENSA and BBA;
NICEIC Certification Services Limited;
Zurich Certification Ltd.

Reports must contain a schedule of test results with nothing coded 1 or 2 in the observations and recommendations box. The normal length of a certificate for a student house is 3-5 years. Completion certificates are not usually accepted as they rarely include a full schedule of test results. Visual inspections are not accepted. You also have a responsibility to ensure any electrical equipment supplied in the accommodation is safe to use.




Scale of charges
Cost of advertising for the 2010-2011 academic year

1 Property or Room £35.00     
Upto 2 Properties £70.00     
Upto 3 Properties £90.00     
Upto 4 Properties £110.00     
Upto 5 Properties £140.00     
Upto 10 Properties £250.00     
Upto 20 Properties £425.00     
Upto 40 Properties £600.00     



Registering Your Property
There are one of two ways you can submit your information to the Guild.
1.   Register Online
Details may be submitted over the Internet.
Please forward a cheque, made payable to "Aston Students' Guild" and copies of your current Gas Safe Register gas certificate, HMO licence and inspection report for the electrical installation including the full certificate and the schedule of test results.

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     For more information or to register
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Landlords who have already registered with studentpad can Log in here to add properties.
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2.   Register By Post
Print and complete the following form and post directly to the Guild along with a cheque, made payable to "Aston Students' Guild" and copies of your current Gas Safe Register gas certificate and HMO licence and inspection report for the electrical installation including the full certificate and the schedule of test results.


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Contact Details
Aston Students' GuildAston Students' Guild
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ES

Phone: 0121 204 4848
Fax: 0121 204 4858
Email: arc@aston.ac.uk



Please note that Studentpad.co.uk's Advertising Conditions apply to any contract with studentpad.co.uk to advertise your property and that by completing and submitting your details, you will be taken to have read and accepted those Conditions.