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Solutions · Expat & relocation

They are moving countries, not booking a holiday.

Your tenant is arriving from abroad with a job start date, no local bank account, and a municipality that will want proof of address before they can do almost anything. The tenancy agreement is not paperwork to them. It is the document that makes the rest of their life possible.

What is different here

Not a variation on letting. A different job.

Demand arrives through agents

Relocation consultants send you three requirements at once, in an email, with dates that are approximate and a budget that is not. They are not browsing your website; they are comparing you with two other operators in a spreadsheet of their own.

The paperwork has a second job

A signed lease with a correct address is what a new arrival needs to register with the municipality. Wrong details are not an inconvenience. They are a week of somebody’s life.

They cannot pay you the normal way yet

No local account, sometimes no local phone number, in a time zone several hours away, and needing to commit to a flat they have only seen photographs of.

Where it breaks

The specific ways this goes wrong.

The agent’s email becomes the record

Three units, two date ranges and a budget, re-typed by hand into whatever system you use, or not re-typed at all and simply left in the inbox.

Signing across time zones takes a week

Print, sign, scan, email. A workflow with four steps and a scanner in it will not finish in one day when one party is asleep for eight hours of it.

The details on the document are wrong

A misspelled name or a flat number missing its letter, discovered at the municipality counter rather than by you.

Where we are the wrong answer

Worth knowing before the call, not after.

We are not an immigration or relocation service and the software gives no legal advice. Whether your agreement satisfies a particular municipality is a question for you and your lawyer. What we do is make sure the document says what your record says.

Bring your actual portfolio

Thirty minutes against your own units and one of your own agreements. If The Quarters is not right for what you run, that’s a thing we’d rather establish now.

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