LRS Customer Testimonials

The landlord referencing service can help make sure that the tenants that we choose are not just financially sound, but also going to be the type of tenants that give us no trouble. After having issues in the past with tenants who passed the ID and finance checks but turned out to be a total nuisance and tried to leave us with over a thousand pounds of unpaid electricity bills, then using such a system will make sure that we can avoid that type of tenant in the future. The most important thing I’ve learnt so far from LRS is how important it is to verify tenants national insurance numbers as a means to pursue them if they moonlight. Although I think that there is room for improvement in the design and flow of the website I whole heartedly support the LRS team.

I can see now that once one understands a report, there is so much information there to do with what the applicant has or more importantly has NOT told us. I am quite happy with the report, am consequently taking more details from tenants and my referencing is becoming more thorough. Marvellous!

‘We actually had not heard of LRS until November 2012, when we bumped into Paul and Samii at a non descript Midlands hotel on the way to the same lettings awards ceremony that they were going to. However, it is now an integral part of our tenant selection process. Any good letting agent should use their experience of the market, human nature and gut feeling to select tenants. I have had 20 plus years experience in the lettings profession and am also a landlord myself, and although I know I dont know it all, I felt I have a good idea of what made the perfect tenant. However, by using LRS it has added a new dimension to the service that we can offer our landlords.

It now means that not only can we use our combined experience, a reputable referencing agency with rent guarantee, but we can actually help prevent our landlords taking someone else’s bad tenant as well. Its a great selling point to our clients, who love it. If you are a letting agent thinking of signing up, I would say what do you have to lose? We all have had what on the surface seems a great tenant, fabulous credit check and references, but then it all goes horribly wrong, and they stop paying the rent or just as bad, damage the landlord’s property and you find out via various means that they have done this to another landlord or letting agent, resulting in loss of rent to the landlord, loss of fees for you, hassle and sometimes even losing a client over it. By signing up to LRS, you can actually help prevent that happening – meaning more happy landlords and letting agents. Just as importantly, you stop bad tenants dead in their tracks, and you can also register the details of your great tenants as well, thereby pretty much guaranteeing they will always be able to find a home.

So what do you have to lose?’

I am a tenant, The reasons I vote them the best is for none of the above reasons.
After saving with Nationwide building Society for 50 years I would have voted them the excellent until they ditched experience and loyalty in favour of using gigo computer technologies such as credit rating agencies who did not even know of me!

I sincerely hope nobody else has to deal with our tenants, they really were the tenants from hell.

Hi cc14

LRS is effectively free to stop one another from taking each others bad tenants and is primarily a community who swap information in order to protect one another.
We have allowed these posts because we believe it is important to be transparent and address your concerns.
It is important to understand that LandlordReferencing.co.uk is not an unemotional credit referencing service, we are about community and sharing, and if this is what you are looking for you may be in the wrong place.
Lifestyle referencing is all about interacting and making the private rented sector a better place by taking part within our forums and making your voice heard as a diligent and competent landlord or letting agent.
In order to assist one another in achieving a better PRS, a better website and a slicker system for all we believe this cannot come from simply posting negative comments about the entire website and grading it on a o% basis.
LRS is about caring landlords who want to do better and improve their community and not about slating one another.
LRS is run by landlords for the benefit of landlords and the staff of LRS have put in masses of time and their own money to do just that. Those that do not contribute in a positive and proactive way and are intolerant enough to post things like this at their first attempt of the website worsen the perception of all landlords of this country being rogues.
We appreciate constructive feedback, and have already addressed the following:
– The “activate your account” page has now been updated to make it clear about what it is for.
– Once the form has been filled out we have added a link to make it easier to get back to the form to continue uploading the 5 tenants needed to activate LRS accounts for free.
– The “Tenants” option on the main menu has now been changed to “Services 4 Tenants” to prevent further confusion.
– We have passed the Avatar problem onto our technical team, who are currently working on this to rectify the current situation.

With regards to a faster way to upload details we understand that it may be cumbersome to upload each tenant individually (for those that have hundreds of tenants) and have also taken this into consideration. We hope to add this feature in the future, but because we are not a corporate company and offer our Lifestyle Referencing services for free and our credit referencing products at the lowest possible price we rely on members input and support to keep the service going.

Somebody at LRS needs to think through and follow the process for new users in all scenarios. I rate my experience here as 0/10, but because I trust your sincerity and WANT to support you, I persevered. Others may not.

many thanks for helping me to log in and use the system, great service

LRS is quick and easy to use – and the additional full credit check is good value too. The more LL that use it the better so that the coverage of both good and bad tenants increases !

Took possession of keys a couple of days ago and trawling through the mail that had built up over the months while the flat was for sale I noted lots of letters for the individual who would have been the last tenant.

Well, a quick glance established that they owed money to credit cards, store cards, utilities, and the previous landlord …. so whoever had done the reference checks for this person probably wasn’t very thorough. Will be pleased to add the name to save some other poor landlord being afflicted with this obvious unscrupulous tenant.