Letting agency employee needs help re legal requirements

[BMead]

I work for a Managing Company but inherited my role from someone who had left some months earlier. No-one really to 'show me the ropes' and I have therefor been muddling along. Is there anywhere that I can get a definitive procedures list of requirements for a sale of a leasehold. Notices of Transfer, Deeds of Covenant, Land registry consents etc. Solicitors request different things and I would like to appear better informed. Can anyone help?

[Surrey]

I work for a Managing Company but inherited my role from someone who had left some months earlier. No-one really to 'show me the ropes' and I have therefor been muddling along. Is there anywhere that I can get a definitive procedures list of requirements for a sale of a leasehold. Notices of Transfer, Deeds of Covenant, Land registry consents etc. Solicitors request different things and I would like to appear better informed. Can anyone help?

I'd love to know the name of the managing company you work for, so I could avoid them at all costs. Are you serious that no-one there has shown you what you have to do? That's completely outrageous!
This is not any kind of dig at you, BMead, I admire the fact that you are trying to find out these things. But I would definitely go back to your employers and point out to them that you are in serious need of training - as much to protect THEM as anyone else. Imagine if you were to do something that got the company into trouble, they would only have themselves to blame if whoever suffered took them to court as they would not be able to show they had taken reasonable steps to train you. So get your employer to provide you with the information, they are the ones who should know, and who need to know that you know...

[Poppy]

I'd love to know the name of the managing company you work for, so I could avoid them at all costs. Are you serious that no-one there has shown you what you have to do? That's completely outrageous!
Not quite Surrey. From BMead's previous posts, he has indicated that he works for a letting agency and the management company is the client.

If I was a director of the management company I would be seriously concerned that for my and the lessees' money we are receiving a less than professional service from a lettings agency.

BMead. You need to go back to basics and learn the various responsibilities of lettings agents. You need to attend a course. I hope that there are lettings agents reading this thread who can point you and your employer (jeesh!) to an appropriate course of study.

[Surrey]

Not quite Surrey. From BMead's previous posts, he has indicated that he works for a letting agency and the management company is the client.

If I was a director of the management company I would be seriously concerned that for my and the lessees' money we are receiving a less than professional service from a lettings agency.

BMead. You need to go back to basics and learn the various responsibilities of lettings agents. You need to attend a course. I hope that there are lettings agents reading this thread who can point you and your employer (jeesh!) to an appropriate course of study.

Poppy, you got the jist of what I meant, but from the original post "I work for a managing company" I assumed the managing company was the employer. Sadly, my view of letting agents has not been uplifted by BMead's post, merely confirmed. (And I would hazard a guess that they're registered with a professional body too...)

So please re-read my original post, removing "Managing company" and inserting "Letting agent". What a bunch of, well, words fail me! :eek: