Member

We then depart and the tenants go back to the agents to discuss their preferred financial provisions—which of course we are seeking agreement on—and they get the money ready to put in the hands of the agent. One of the items would be the rent, either for the rest of the month or for the rest of the month and the following month, if that is what is agreed. In this scenario, they are asking to move in quite quickly—within the next seven days. I then settle down to write the tenancy agreement and send the draft to the tenants to find out if they find it acceptable or want to change any of the terms. Providing the first draft rental agreement is an onward process. On the whole, I am probably behindhand; the probability is that the tenants will have produced to the agent the monthly rent and deposit that we are asking for, so I am probably behindhand in getting the rental agreement sent to them. It is a kind of simultaneous exercise, and it makes complete practical nonsense to say that the tenant should not pay the money for the rent in advance.