Parent’s University Guide

We have created our Parent's University Guide to provide you with advice and information on the process of renting a student property.

It is a big step when your son or daughter takes the responsibility to rent a property for the first time. You can trust Walton Robinson to guide them through the process and give them all the information they need to choose the right property for them. 

Guarantor Form

Most of our tenants renting student houses in Newcastle require a UK guarantor as a guarantee that if they fail to pay the rent, the guarantor will be able to pay for them. If you are acting as guarantor on behalf of your son or daughter you will be given a guarantor form to fill in and return with a copy of photographic ID. The guarantor deed must be witnessed by a person not related to or living with the guarantor and not party to the tenancy agreement.

The tenants sign a tenancy agreement which states they are both joint and severally liable for the rent payments and therefore the guarantors are also joint and severally liable.

In the event that one tenant does not pay their rent we go through several steps to recover the arrears before we would contact you.  

You can download a copy of the guarantor form here.

Tenancy Agreement

Once a tenant has signed up for one of WR's student houses in Newcastle the tenants are sent a draft copy of the tenancy agreement to read through before they come into the office to sign. This sets out the terms of the tenancy including deposit and rent amounts due.

To download a draft copy of the tenancy agreement click here.

Rent

If you are paying the rent for one of our student houses in Newcastle on behalf of your son or daughter they will be given a standing order mandate form for you to complete and either take directly to your bank or use the provided details to set up the payments online.

It is important that you add a reference to your payment of the property address and your son or daughter's surname. We get hundreds of standing order payments and the reference means we can easily allocate the payment to the right tenant.

Deposit

Most of our landlords require a deposit before the tenants move into student houses in Newcastle to cover any damage that could potentially occur. The deposit amount is the equivalent of one month's rent.

When a tenant initially signs up for a property with Walton Robinson they will pay £100 as a holding deposit to secure the property and the remainder of the deposit will be due in the second appointment when they come to sign the tenancy agreement.

Once the tenants have moved out of the property, we will conduct a thorough checkout inspection to asses the condition of the property and how much of the deposit will be returned to the tenant/s.

In addition to our Parent's University Guide…

We hope that our Parent's University Guide has proved useful, and if you have any further questions please email Ashley@waltonrobinson.com or call the office on 0191 243 1000.