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Your entire year happens in two weeks.

Furnished student lets are a seasonal business pretending to be a rental one. Ninety per cent of the turnover lands in a fortnight, every unit changes hands at once, and the software you use for the other fifty weeks has to survive September.

What is different here

Not a variation on letting. A different job.

Everything moves on the same weekend

Not a rolling schedule of handovers. One weekend where every flat empties, gets cleaned and refills. The constraint is not software, it is how many cleaners exist.

The tenancies are near-identical

Same dates, same rent, same clauses, hundreds of times. Anything that takes four minutes per tenancy takes a week across the intake.

Guarantors and third-party payers are normal

A parent or an institution signs or pays, and the person living there may not be on the payment at all.

Where it breaks

The specific ways this goes wrong.

The intake outruns the process

A workflow that is fine at three tenancies a month is not fine at two hundred in a fortnight, and the failure is not dramatic. It is a week of evenings.

The turnover weekend has no plan that survives contact

Who is cleaning what, in which order, with which keys. Built in a spreadsheet on the Thursday and out of date by Saturday lunchtime.

Nobody knows who has actually signed

Two hundred documents in various states across an inbox, a week before people arrive.

Where we are the wrong answer

Worth knowing before the call, not after.

We model a tenancy against a unit. If you let individual rooms in a shared house and need per-room rents, deposits and contracts, look at the co-living page first. The same caveat applies there and it is spelled out more plainly.

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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