Landlords need to maintain at least good standards, if not better, for healthy rental returns.

Experienced investors often buy properties that require only cosmetic changes to generate higher rents. Minor details such as installing new curtains, repainting or simply updating the knobs on kitchen cupboard doors can work wonders when it comes to maximising the return on a well-chosen investment.

A lick of paint and inexpensive eyelet curtains won’t replace much-needed renovations for long, though. Kitchens and bathrooms need to be replaced, or upgraded, every decade or so if you want to attract good …

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You’re planning to move out of rental accommodation and want to make very sure that you’ll get your bond back; but housekeeping hasn’t been a priority while you’ve been living there, and the place is less than pristine.

You’re wondering how clean the place needs to be, and whether one little red wine stain on the carpet means you’ll forfeit a month’s rent.

In an ideal world, you’d have time and perhaps the inclination to look after another person’s property as you would your own. And maybe when you next sign …

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