Over the last few weeks we have been calling our databases to inform our members of the up and coming legislation "The right to rent" that gives us a statutory duty to check the immigration status of our tenants or face up to a three grand fine.

We explain that our system takes just 5 minutes to check the tenants documents are real, it costs £10 and is archived for you if you are called upon to produce your proof of carrying out immigration checks later. As far as we are aware Landlordreferencing.co.uk is the only tenant referencing company in the country that currently has the ability to do these document checks on line.

I have had such a different response from letting agents who we are making aware of this new legislation and how easy it is to comply. The problem is although most letting agents are complying and want us to show them how it works we are getting some very bizarre answers from some and I thought for a bit of fun I would share.

• I like my existing referencing company and if they don’t do immigration checks then I won’t bother.
• I will prefer to try and call the home office because it is cheaper than paying £10.
• I only do a credit check which costs me £1.50 and if they have no CCJ’s then I am sure they are ok and I will take them, I used your system when it was free but when you started charging I stopped checking.
• We don’t have any illegal immigrants around here.
• I can tell if a document is forged.
• Only 1 in 50 around here are not white British so there is no need to check.

I will add more as they come in.

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