Renting Out Your Property For Dummies

Melanie Bien is the personal finance editor for The Independent on Sunday and has written about rental property for national newspapers and magazines. She has contributed to Channel 4's Location Location Location and Selling Houses. Robert Griswold lectures at the Institute for Real Estate Management.

Introduction. Part I: So You Want to Be a Landlord? Chapter 1: Do You Have What It Takes to Manage a Buy--to--let Property? Chapter 2: Deciding Whether to Manage Your Property Yourself or to Hire an Agent. Chapter 3: Finding the Perfect Rental Property. Part II: Renting Your Property. Chapter 4: Preparing Your Rental Property for Prospective Tenants. Chapter 5: Rent, Deposits, and Tenancy Agreements: The Big Three of Property Management. Chapter 6: FOR RENT: Generating Interest in Your Rental Property. Chapter 7: Handling Prospective Tenants and Showing the Property. Chapter 8: Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo: Selecting Your Tenants. Part III: The Brass Tacks of Managing Rentals. Chapter 9: Moving in the Tenant. Chapter 10: Collecting and Increasing Rent. Chapter 11: Keeping Good Tenants -- and Your Sanity. Chapter 12: Dealing with Problem Tenants. Chapter 13: Moving Out Tenants. Part IV: Techniques and Tools for Managing. Chapter 14: Maintenance. Chapter 15: Safety and Security. Part V: Money, Money, Money! Chapter 16: Raising the Cash to Buy Your Rental Property. Chapter 17: Two Necessities of Being a Landlord: Insurance and Taxes. Chapter 18: Financial Management and Recordkeeping. Part VI: Only for the Daring. Chapter 19: Government Programmes. Chapter 20: Working in Niche Markets: Students, Pets, and Smokers. Part VII: The Part of Tens. Chapter 21: Ten Reasons to Become a Rental Property Owner. Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Get and Keep Full Occupancy in Your Property. Chapter 23: Ten Ways to Increase Cash Flow. Appendix: Resources. Index.