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Websites where you can rent a house in the UK,
1. Rightmove (https://www.rightmove.co.uk/)
2. Zoopla (https://www.zoopla.co.uk/)
3. OnTheMarket (https://www.onthemarket.com/)
4. Gumtree (https://www.gumtree.com/)
5. SpareRoom (https://www.spareroom.co.uk/)
6. Entity (https://www.rentify.com/)
7. OpenRent (https://www.openrent.co.uk/)
8. Nestpick (https://www.nestpick.com/)
9. Rent.com (https://www.rent.com/)
10. Airbnb (https://www.airbnb.co.uk/)If you have never studied or worked in the UK, you will need to pay the renting agency a half-year or perhaps a full year in advance. They require this because we don’t have a credit record in the system. Additionally, you will need to examine numerous properties before the landlord decides to rent to you out of the many tenants on the list; some of them are couples who are both employed, so the landlord will prefer to choose them. Please check links 1 and 2, which are the most popular websites if you want to rent a property with filters of property type, city, budget, etc.
You may check from Facebook Marketplace or OpenRent to rent directly from the landlord. Link 7 is also recommended if you have enough time to wait for the landlord to reply and arrange the viewing of the property. Remember to check if the landlord has the right to rent the house. To check if a landlord is legally able to rent their property, you can do the following:
1) Check the local council’s website: Many local boards have a public register of landlords that you can search to see if a landlord is registered. The record should include the landlord’s name and the properties they are currently renting.
2) Ask the landlord for their registration number: Landlords must display their registration number on their rental advertisements. You can ask the landlord for their registration number and verify it on the local council’s website.As an alternative to being financially prepared for up-front costs, you may find websites where you may purchase guarantor services. Using them as your guarantor, you avoid paying up-front expenses and pay monthly.
Telephone:
If you use something for both business and personal reasons
You can only claim allowable expenses for the business costs.Example
Your mobile phone bills for the year total £200. Of this, you spend £130 on personal calls and £70 on business.You can claim for £70 of business expenses.
Bills: Gas and Electricity
I rent a three-bedroom house and work from home most of the time, so I calculate my gas and electricity bills according to the room numbers.
My gas and electricity bills each month are £117.62
If I calculate based on time spent, it will be £26 per month
If I calculate based on room numbers, it will be £39.2 per month
So my bookkeeping will be
Category: Expenses, Subcategory: Bills: Gas and Electricity, Account Type: Business, Value: £39.2
Category: Expenses, Subcategory: Bills: Gas and Electricity, Account Type: personal, Value: £78.42You’ll need to find a reasonable method of dividing your costs, for example by the number of rooms you use for business or the amount of time you spend working from home.
Example
You have 4 rooms in your home, one of which you use only as an office.Your electricity bill for the year is £400. Assuming all the rooms in your home use equal amounts of electricity, you can claim £100 as allowable expenses (£400 divided by 4).
If you worked only one day a week from home, you could claim £14.29 as allowable expenses (£100 divided by 7).
If you never studied or worked in the UK, you have no credit record from this country. You will have to pay half-year or one-year upfront in order to get the property you like.
You have an option to get a Guarantor.
If you can’t get a family or friend as a guarantor or you don’t have anyone in the UK to support you,you may check some Guarantor Service places from the internet.
