The current controversy about the huge hikes in the fees being levied by TDS has seen a significant increase in enquiries for the
ARPM provide a full menu of outsourced managed services for lettings including the management of deposits and rent collection, if required.
Managing Director Simon Duce said: “Many businesses have already seen the attraction and benefits of outsourcing some or all of their lettings management, the huge increase in costs of being registered and using TDS is another and perhaps new reason for businesses to reconsider their options as outsourcing can remove, or at least reduce, this cost from our clients.
At ARPM we are members of TDS as well as ARLA and NALS and our highly trained staff are used to handling large volumes of managed property for a wide variety of estate and lettings agency businesses.”
Clear service level agreements, health and safety policies, public liability and professional indemnity insurance can all be issues for agency customers and outsourcing to professional managers can provide the peace of mind of knowing that should any issues arise they have the security of dealing with an organisation that supports, reinforces and enhances the client agent’s business, brand and reputation.
The handling of deposits and rent collection has proven to be an accounting nightmare for many and there have been a number of stories over the last year in particular of businesses failing to comply with legislation and not managing their growing financial responsibilities as managing agents. Outsourcing to a professional accounting team with robust client account processes can ensure that these nightmares are a thing of the past.
Trisha Brannagan, Senior Property Manager at ARPM added: “The increases in TDS costs is just the latest in a plethora of increasing overheads for those engaged in running lettings operations. We are finding that more and more agents are recognising that outsourcing can not only free up valuable resources (time, people, systems etc) within their own businesses but also offers a genuinely attractive proposition based on service delivery and professionalism and, because of economies of scale, a better looking bottom line as well!”
ARPM have also recently moved to larger offices and increased the size of their team in order to ensure that their service offerings and delivery remains industry leading. They have also just launched an inventory service that provides a consistent, professional and fast approach with trained staff, all of whom are insured and have been CRB checked.
Simon Duce can be contacted on 01923 775705 or by email at simon@arpm.co.uk
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