Words and Pictures

We deal in words all day. Telephone calls, emails, texts, voicemail, negotiations, letters, offers, agreements, statements, words, words words.

Sometimes it is a relief to play with words and not have to think too hard about what they mean. Have you ever played with words?
















You can make your own over at Wordle Just click on the create button and see what you can make!

Are the stars mis-aligned?

Everybody looks but no-one makes offers. No-one can commit right now and they have to have a think about it.

What is going on? Whatever happened to "I like it/it will do to keep my stuff from getting wet/I like the look of that fridge"?

All the properties we have available right now have something special about them. Either the location, the period features, the views.... they are all waiting for someone to love them or at least want to shack up with them for a year then see how it goes. We even have an office available to save a marriage from a miserable entrepreneur working from home and drinking too much coffee.

Have a look at our listings on rightmove and tell me which one you would rent.

Still Unusual

Two things you may or may not know about BlueDoor:

We don't charge renewal fees to Landlords or Tenants.

We don't do boards.

It is a little known fact that there are agents like us out there in the wilderness also not charging ridiculous renewal fees. We are proud to be one of them and wish that other agents would join us.

If you read the property sections of any weekend broadsheets you will probably have read a lot about unfair charges levied by agents on poor tenants and landlords and the moves by the Office of Fair Trading to force Foxtons to remove the unfair fees terms in their agreements.

Elsewhere you may have read about Estate Agents protesting that they cannot sell houses without having numerous boards on both sides of the streets of Hammersmith and Fulham and Brighton and Hove.

None of our properties stay empty for very long. The average is probably a matter of days rather than weeks and we achieve this by advertising properties in the best way possible: with lots of pictures and interesting advertising text. We don thave boards and it doesn't affect our ability to let properties.

In and around Abingdon it seems that agents can get a board up faster than they can get a property advertised on rightmove or their own website. How can a tenant find out anything about the property from a board? How many people will see a board in a no through road versus how many will see it advertised online when they are browsing in their lunch break?

Pictures are the key here. If a tenant can see a picture of each room they can really get an idea about whether they can see themselves in the property or not. This saves us time because only people who are really interested in the hose want to view it and it also saves prospective tenants time as they don't waste their afternoon looking at a place that they wouldn't have bothered with if they know it had a shower but not a bath or a mirrored bedroom ceiling or whatever.

Work smarter not harder, goes the saying. Well, we do work hard but we also work smart. You too can work smart by instructing us.

Paying just £65+VAT pcm for management and rent collection is pretty smart don't you think?