How to use the Rent Arrears Tracker for Landlords: full video tutorial
Log rent as it arrives, see what was due by today and spot arrears early across every tenancy. Educational record-keeping, not advice.
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Add each tenancy once, log payments as they arrive, and see what was due by today, what has been paid and any arrears. This full guide walks you through every box and result in the Property Clues Rent Arrears Tracker, using a worked example: three tenancies with one in arrears.
What you'll learn
- The headline figures: arrears owed, collected to date, rent roll and collection rate
- Logging payments fast, or marking a month paid
- Reading the tenancy ledger: due to date, paid to date and balance
- Adding a tenancy, including a balance brought forward
- Rent increase what-ifs, Section 13 and the Form 4A serve-by date
Chapters
- £325 owed, 99% collected (example)
- Finding your way around
- The four headline figures
- What the four figures mean
- Logging a payment
- Logging payments well
- Your tenancies
- Reading the ledger
- Filtering the list
- Following up arrears
- Adding a tenancy
- Adding a tenancy, step by step
- Agents, deposits and rent in advance
- Charts and rent increases
- Rent status and rent by month
- What if you ask for more?
- Checking another tenancy
- Rent increases: the usual rules
- Contacts and recap
Figures in the video are a worked example. Property Clues tools are educational calculators and checklists, not financial, tax, mortgage or legal advice. Speak to a qualified adviser about your own situation. The voice in the video is AI-generated.