New service will solve ‘no pets’ problems for letting agents

PetsScore is to launch later this year offering a national pets referencing system and later on specialist insurance to cover for pet damage.

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A new service is due to launch later this year that will enable letting agents to reference a tenant’s pets and offer specialist insurance to tenants who fail referencing.

PetsScore, which is to launch in approximately ten weeks’ time, is the brainchild of landlord and tech entrepreneur Natasha Homer-Earley, who says it will solve the problems caused by many landlords’ reluctance to rent to tenants with dog and/or cats.

She says her service will help solve the conundrum both in the UK and in other countries too created by millions of tenants who have pets and a paucity of properties available to rent.
“We have a situation where many tenants have to hide their pets from agents and landlords or give their dog and cats to charities or friends in order to rent their desire home,” she says.

PetsScore will be free for tenants to use. It will ask for multiple types of information such as a pet’s microchip number, breed/size/weight, vaccinations, pet insurance details, medical treatments (fleas, ticks, etc), pet training, landlord/letting agent references, exercise levels and even pet temperament.

Fee or subscription

It will charge agents a small fee or subscription to allow them to access a pet’s reference, with plans to later offer a specialist insurance to offer tenants whose dog or cat fails referencing to pay an subsequent damage caused or extra cleaning required.s

Homer-Earley’s fledgling business has big plans because its tech can be used by anyone around the world and solves an issue that is hotly debated in many countries, not just the UK.

The launch comes hot on the heels of MP Andrew Rosindell’s recent failed attempt to get legislation through parliament that would have mandated landlords to take tenants with pets based on a registration system very similar to PetsScore.

The government also recently published its non-mandatory model AST which urges landlords to accept pets.

Letting agents can pre-register for free with the service.


One Comment

  1. Or we could just go back to what worked before Shelter & Govt messed it up.

    Gees, how simple was it when we could just charge higher deposit and those that did no damage got all money back. So so simple.
    No better insurance than the tenants own money.
    Now look what Shelter and Generation rent and the Govt have done. Made it MUCH MUCH worse for tenants yet again.
    My text below I’ve done before.

    From another Landlord:
    Landlords: pets are okay if you pay for extra insurance to cover any damage.
    Gov: in that case we will make it illegal to charge extra insurance.
    LLs: well then we will have to slightly increase deposits for those with pets.
    Gov: in that case we will cap deposits at 5 weeks rent.
    LLs: okay well we can’t really allow pets anymore then.
    Gov: in that case we will force you to take tenants with pets.
    LLs: well then we have no choice but to increase rent across the board even for tenants without pets.
    Gov: oh.
    Tenants: why is rent so high??

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