Letting agents urged to step up property checks

News Category: Management

This article was brought to you by Rentman the premium property management system.

Police have urged letting agents and landlords to check their rental properties more often in an attempt to reduce the number of rental homes being used as cannabis farms.

Andy Smith, a detective inspector, encouraged letting agents and landlords to get in touch with police if they notice anything suspicious.

"If you are a landlord and think there may be a factory in one of your properties, get in touch with us immediately," he said.

Some 1,500 cannabis plants have recently been seized by police from 17 homes in the Forest Heath district of Cambridge.

Increasing checks as part of a rental property management could save the owner huge amounts of money if cannabis farm activities among tenants are exposed as soon as possible.

Last week, Burnham Police detective inspector Dave Allen commented that homes used as drug farms are re-wired, present a higher risk of flooding and can also be booby-trapped.

See how a property management system makes property management easy.