WHAT'S NEW
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Leydon Lettings Canterbury
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What's new 2009: |
"Reasons to be cheerful" |
Inspired by Ian Drury and the Blockheads the title has a certain irony when you read some of the egregious anticts of our strictly anonymous tenants. Leydon Lettings have made the odd fau paux too! Reasons to be cheerful is a page born out of more than two decades of humerous leydon lettings experiences. This is non-essential reading for those with a sense of humour and time to waste.
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Quick list |
This page was created in 2009 for students short of time? -
Quick list of available Student Houses in Canterbury to Rent |
Photo gallery |
From 2009 Students can quickly find photos and graphics of each house, accessible from a single page. |
Map |
Leydon Lettings newMapis a page created in 2009 enabling students to find a house by location only. |
Documents |
Leydon Lettings newDocuments page created in 2009 enables students to quickly find any forms e.g. Standing Order |
Certificates |
This page evolved in 2009 by adapting and publishing Leydon Lettings office copy Certificate Checklist. All houses comply with the legal requirement to provide certificates for gas safety and Energy performance and, where required, Licences. Leydonlettings also provides details of other non compulsory but relevant certificates e.g. electricity safety certificates. Some houses have up to 11 certificates. |
Flood prevention |
Leydon Lettings pre-empt and prevent many disaters. E.g. we have developed a unique system to reduce both the cause of leaks and the damage following a leak. Sounds obvious! In January 2009 several enquiries were received from all colleges and many landlords. Burst pipes followed the freezing weather at exactly the time when students were absent and unable to report or minimise the damage. Many students had to be re-housed with exams looming! Although we did suffer two burst pipes the damage was contained and the flood water was diverted outside the property leaving you high and very dry! Our tenants were unaffected and not inconvenienced at all. Further, our bills package encouraged our tenants to leave the heating on over the holiday suficient to prevent freezing. Our lofts also have well lagged pipes - just in case. |
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What's new 2008: |
What's New |
'What's new' is in itself a new menu on our web site. This provides a summary of the latest information. More features are continually being added. So visit if you would like to know the latest updates.
The emphasis on new pages not only advertises student houses but more importantly communicates the raft of information needed by today's students relevant to a number of criteria: Arriving, Departing, and many seasonal events like viewings and vacations.
Students competing for houses need information fast.
We recognise that we are not available 24 houses a day to answer questions. You might suddenly realise you have a query at midnight but do not want to wait until the next morning to telephone and ask. Rather than lose sleep worrying many new links provide a variety of instant answers. We now have over 300 web pages most of which are invisible until you have a need to know. Our developing web site is being redesigned to be more intuitive with logical progressions for fast information retrieval. So although you do not need to read this information since it becomes apparent there are advantages in having hot tips. So invest a little time and effort now and save more later.
A lot of positive changes both in terms of features and access to information are being introduced; so the list of good news is long! |
Fault Finding |
Other landlords and home owners avail themselves of the valuable yet simple D-I-Y instruction. The information is occasionally technical and intended for those competent to carry out more complex work. But if you have simply lost power to your house or blocked your toilet you could probably fix it yourself guided by the step by step advice given by Leydon Lettings.
Many of our student tenants become professionals capable of carrying out money saving repairs for years after they leave our houses and still log onto our site for tips and tricks! So students get a dual education by signing up for a degree and gaining vocational experience along side their courses free of charge!
Ladies, empowered by this easy to grasp source of training, can shame their male counterparts and future husbands with their super skills developed whilst living with Leydon Lettings. |
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Leydon Lettings newHome Pageis more flexible and more descriptive with a choice of access. If you know what you are looking for browse the alphabetical list of links . Alternatively if you prefer graphic inspiration or simply want to browse generally there is also a graphical view with a descriptive link name below each graphic. Because the student letting cycle is repetitive is is possible to predict the type of information needed throughout the year. Thus we have created a
Chronological Student Calendar. This provides a logical series of links most likely to be used in any month or season. So if you are unsure of what to expect this area provides links: past present and future. This is a link focused page - for a text focus see Life Cycle calendar
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Life Cycle calendar |
Super standards are not yet universal in Canterbury.
To get the best houses in any university city, especially Canterbury, students must be extra organised. To achieve this students need to know what to expect in advance.
Leydon Lettings' new predictable text based Life Cycle calendarprovides you with a competitive edge over fellow students.
This spells out what is likely to happen and when over a student's academic life cycle with links to relevant topics for easy reference. With this month by month comentary of what to expect at your online fingertips you cease to use the disappointing phrase "if only I knew then what I know now."
Leydon Lettings have significantly contributed to the sharp rise in Canterbury student housing standards with some other landlords also now providing ensuites.
Compare other major university cities like Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, Durham, etc and you are unlikely to find the quality provided by Leydon Lettings to local Canterbury university students. |
Compare Us |
This saves time by clearly stating what students get with Leydon Lettings before viewing! During viewings students ask landlords and letting agents many questions and in some instances discover the house is not what they hoped. You need neither hope, since you can know; nor waste a journey finding out. See alsoStatistics
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Before Viewing |
This is a page in development also designed to save you time |
NewHome Page |
New clean clear easy to find pages provide fast access to all links including now a new Site Map although this has already been somewhat superceded by our new Alphabetical index of site links |
Viewings Diary |
Plan your appointments with Leydon Lettings new colour coordinatedStudent's Viewings Diary
Each day during the student viewing season you can predetermine which day you are available in relation to lectures, seminars and viewing dates and thus arrange a date with virtual certainty. Our most appreciative tenants have visited a number of other houses before viewing ours. If you only view Leydon Letting houses you may assume all student houses are the same - you would be wrong!
You can even select where and when to sign contacts after viewing! |
Zone Map. |
Using Leydon Lettings new colour coordinated Zone Map.
Let's say you have used the life cycle calendar but have still been 'pipped at the post' and missed a house in an area you particularly wanted. The zone map quickly reveals the nearest comparable house regardless of room numbers. So if a group of 5 decide to include a 6th housemate or reduce in number because a housemate has dropped out Zone Map places urgent info at your finger tips. |
Combine related links |
Use the colour coordinated Zone Map.
with the corresponding colour coordinated
Student's Viewings Diaryto identify the best day to view one or several houses in your preferred area around the same time. You can even select where and when to sign contracts after viewing! |
Parent Page |
Parents often want to know more about their children's landlord and new home. Parents prefer relevant information to be grouped neatly in one location. Parent page locates most of this information in one place together with relevant FAQs. |
Rent Bills Calculator |
Converting weekly rent and bills payments over 52 weeks into monthly and then quarterly payments after deducting discounts and vacation periods is complicated! Not any more. Leydon Lettings have made this easy by introducing this page. |
AWARDS |
To encourage good behaviour we have also introduced for our best tenants a £50 AWARD - published for 6 winners! We are also developing a tenant ideas forum, so if you suggest an idea which we adopt you get £20; if this turns out to be the best idea or feedback you get a further£50! |
Preparing to leave |
At the end of a tenancy Preparing to leave provides time saving specific answers to frequently asked questions by final year students about to return home at the end of their courses. |
Welcome 2009 tenants |
The opposite to preparing to leave Welcome 2009 tenants assists new arrivals by preempting queries. |
Student loan release dates
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Finally no more calculating Easter day by determining the relation ship with the sun the moon on a certain Sunday after lent. And when is the term start dates for each college, course, etc. -see Student loan release dates
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The Student Bills Packageis very popular and it is not always understood what this provides. Now this has it's own page.
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Six new houses in 2008 take the total student let houses in Canterbury to 33 |
Six new houses in 2008 has expanded the choice of Canterbury accommodation rented to students.
One of these was extended during 2008 and completed in June 2008.
All of these houses have been totally renovated
Innovative new water flood-prevention features are also being added to the latest houses to minimise disruption in the event of a disaster.
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Leydon Lettings increase the ratio of ensuites to students. |
We continue to add ensuites to more houses. Fifty percent 50% of all our tenants have a private ensuite. See ratiosCompare Ussee also Statistics Leydon Lettings |
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In an effort to be transparent in our dealings with our clients we now have almost 100 frequently asked questions and answers all with jump links so you can access your information fast. In addition we have further categorised these into sub groups so you can see other related questions at a glance
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Orthopedic double beds are standard |
All Leydon Lettings latest house purchases feature orthopedic double beds as standard - and more are being added to our older properties! |
Industrial Pneumatic vacuum cleaners |
Industrial quality pneumatic vacuum cleaners are now supplied to all Leydon Lettings student houses. |
All houses have wireless internet connections + |
The latest feature for 2008: All student houses have wireless internet connections and now all but one house has hardwired connection for faster speed and more secure reliability! |
Dishwashers |
We continue to provide dishwashers as standard in most houses - currently up to about 75% |
Fire doors and smoke alarms |
Fire doors and smoke alarms feature as as standard in over 90% of all bedrooms - this not a legal requirement, we simply value your safety more than you do! |
Digital aerials |
The latest houses have already been equipped with digital aerials in line with all our houses. |
Energy Performance Certificates EPC's |
New Energy Performance Certificates were provided in January 2008 well ahead of legislation requied by October 2008 |
Cavity wall insulation |
All but three houses already had cavity wall insulation by 2007 with the remaining houses due following renovation. Lofts are now having up to a foot of insulation installed in an effort to combat the rising cost of oil and fuel bills generally and to reduce energy consumption and thereby save the environment. |
This is all for now. Revisit again for latest what's new!
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