Landlords and tenants get free £10 Uber ride

A landlord services company that manages over £500m worth of property on behalf of clients has struck a deal with Uber to give its landlords and tenants a free taxi ride worth £10.

The Happy Tenant Company, which is unusual becomes it manages properties and tenants on behalf of landlords but uses approved lettings agents just for ‘tenant finding’, says the deal will also raise money for charity Make a Wish UK.

When anyone signs up for the first time to join Uber – existing customers are excluded – they will be given £10 of free credit on their account if they use the voucher code ‘HAPPY TENANT and £5 will be donated to Make a Wish UK.

The Uber deal echoes The Happy Tenant Company’s business model, which is to use its group buying power to gain bulk discounts for services to landlords such as tenant finding, maintenance and inventory services and then pass them directly to their customers.

“We’ve focused on delivering more than just property management, by using our size to secure discounts across a range of service suppliers to help our landlord and tenant clients; something which experience has shown us is the key to harnessing good landlord/tenant relationships,” says CEO Adam Joseph (pictured, left).

“We truly believe that happy tenants equal happier landlords.”

Build-to-rent deal

This is not the only deal that Uber has struck within the property industry recently. Earlier this month build-to-rent developer Moda Living said it entered into a partnership with the ride sharing service to give its tenants £100 of Uber credits every month if they agree not to have a car parking space in their building.

The deal will be offered to its development, which are currently being built or planned in Manchester, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham, all cities where Uber operates.

The first development to open and where the Uber deal will be available is its 900-resident Angel Gardens development in Manchester’s central NOMA district.

“Cars are one of the most expensive assets most people own, but they’re used just five per cent of the time,” says Jo Bertram, Regional General Manager of Uber.

“Our mission is for everybody to have a reliable ride at the touch of a button so they don’t need their own car.

“These plans for what will be a unique partnership with Moda Living is a big step forward in making that a reality. By getting more people to ditch their own vehicles we can put some of the space wasted on parking to much better use.”