Yewtree Property - some of the best student houses in
Cheltenham
www.yewtree.com >> allan AT read.net << 01242 22 00
77 or 07715 661 604 (text is best)
25 Cheltenham houses (for 172 full-time students)
We
are now taking bookings for next year (2012/13)
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Address |
Location |
Map |
Photo |
Beds |
Spaces 1/8/2012 |
Rent/wk incl all bills |
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Arle Gdns |
W of Gloucester Rd; 15 mins
FCH |
10 |
Full for next year |
£80 |
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Arle Gdns |
Ditto |
6 |
Rory Sharratt – 1 space
(Rory 2 fill) |
£85 - £90 |
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Arle Gdns |
Ditto |
8 |
Jess Ridge – 1 space in all-girls house |
£85 - £90 |
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Arle Gdns |
Ditto |
8 |
Full for next year |
£85 - £90 |
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Arle Gdns |
Ditto |
7 |
Gareth Philip-Smith – 1 space (Gareth 2 fill) |
£84 - £90 |
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Arle Gdns |
Ditto |
8 |
Full for next year |
£85 - £90 |
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Arle Gdns |
Ditto |
7 |
Full for next year |
£85 - £90 |
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Alstone Lane |
Ditto |
8 |
Full for next year |
£80 - £90 |
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Cleeveland St |
Opposite Tesco (big); 5 mins
FCH |
8 |
Harry Bissett – 1 space (mainly boys) |
£80 - £90 |
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Fairview Rd |
Town centre; 10 mins
from FCH |
8 |
Daisy Bridgford – 1 space (mixed) |
£80 - £90 |
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Marsh Dr |
N of Swindon Rd - 5 mins
FCH |
5 |
Full for next year |
£85 - £90 |
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Marsh Dr |
Ditto |
5 |
Full for next year |
£84 - £90 |
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Mitre St |
Town centre; near Wetherspoons |
5 |
Full for next year |
£85 - £90 |
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Commercial St |
Montpellier; 7 mins
from Park |
5 |
Abbie Plucknett
– 1 space in all-girls
house |
£82 - £90 |
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Above owned
by: |
Allan & Joan Read |
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Below owned
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David & Melissa Read |
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* Alstone Lane |
W of Gloucester Rd; 15 mins
FCH |
7 |
Full for next year |
£80 - £90 |
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* Alstone Lane |
Ditto |
8 |
Full for next year |
£71 - £79 |
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* Alstone Lane |
Ditto |
8 |
McCann – 1 space in all-boys house |
£80 - £87 |
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* Arle Gdns |
Ditto |
7 |
Full for next year |
£80 - £90 |
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* Elmfield Rd |
N of Swindon Rd; 5 mins
FCH |
map |
7 |
Full for next year |
£58 - £90 |
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* Elmfield Rd |
Ditto |
map |
6 |
Full for next year |
£75 - £86 |
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* Marle Hill Pde |
Close to FCH (350m) |
6 |
Full for next year |
£90 |
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* Marle Hill Pde |
Close to FCH (450m) |
7 |
Full for next year |
£80 - £90 |
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* Albert St |
Very close to FCH (100m) |
6 |
Full for next year |
£75 - £85 |
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* Brunswick St |
Very close to FCH (100m) |
6 |
Full for next year |
£75 - £85 |
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* Orchard Ave |
W of Gloucester Rd; 25 mins
FCH |
6 |
Full for next year |
£68 - £78 |
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Last 11 houses are owned by our son & daughter-in-law (David & Melissa
Read) david AT read DOT net
All
houses are refurbished to a very high standard, have fully-equipped kitchens
(washing machine, microwave, pots, pans, crockery & cutlery), Virgin Media
cable TV (50” HD plasmas in larger houses), TV licence, telephone (incoming
calls only) and wired broadband internet connections in each bedroom (also, the
first 14 houses have wireless as well as wired internet). All our houses are
non-smoking. Rents are quoted on a per week basis, inclusive of bills (energy
costs up to £5pppw – excesses will be charged).
There are TV aerial sockets (with digital Freeview signal) in all
bedrooms in most houses. If you want a lot more detail, read on....
More detail
Deposit: £300 per
person - on signing this agreement and will be protected by
the Government-approved Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) within 14 days of
receiving cleared funds from ALL tenants.
Check for yourself at:
www.mydeposits.co.uk/tenants/tenant-areyouprotected.htm
Cancellation after that date will mean you are still
responsible for the rent until the end of the contract, unless you either find
an acceptable replacement, or the Tenant is able to negotiate cancellation
terms with the Landlord. The
deposit, less any deductions for cleaning, losses or damage,
will be returned within 10 days of the end of the lease.
Rent: Should be paid by Bank Standing
Order such that the rent is credited direct to our bank account on the first
day of the each month. Most leases runs for 11 months from August 1st - June
30th (ie you must vacate on the 30th). If any tenant wants to pay termly this can be
arranged. If you are staying on from the previous year, then you can stay during
July for free.
Parental
guarantees: a few of
our students get into financial difficulties towards the end of the lease; so
to safeguard our income we insist on all students having a parental guarantee
from a parent or guardian. It is a simple document that contains the following
words: "I guarantee to the Landlords the payment of the Rent and the
observation of the performance by the Tenant of the Tenancy Agreement. If the
Tenant defaults in payment of the Rent for 14 days, I will, at your request in
writing, pay the said Rent to you. If the Tenant defaults in their observation
and performance of the terms of the Tenancy Agreement then I will pay to you
all losses and expenses and costs to which you shall be entitled to receive to
the extent that you have not received them from the Tenant." Essentially,
this means that the guarantor will pay the rent if the student doesn't -
guarantors are not responsible for other tenants, nor any damage to the house or contents as we will already
hold sufficient deposit.
Council
Tax: all full-time students at University
are exempt from Council Tax. We notify Cheltenham Borough Council each year of
the names and student numbers for each tenant; they then zero-rate the house.
If a student leaves the University, or becomes part-time, but stays in the house, that student will become
liable for the Council Tax for the entire house (usually with a 25% discount).
The Council will pursue the tenant direct at their home address. We require any
tenant ceasing to be a student to inform us immediately so that we can let the
Council know.
Insurance: we insure the property - we do not insure tenants' belongings: we understand that
normally the cheapest way to do this is for parents to extend their own
household insurance to cover portable possessions
of their child. Otherwise, a separate policy for the student living in a shared
house without individual locks on the doors is very expensive. Please note that the deadlocks on many doors
are there for the landlord's benefit - we do not necessarily provide keys to
deadlocks. Unfortunately the absence of a key makes it difficult for the
student to take out a separate policy - that is why we recommend the portable
possessions route; they are also covered when they leave their PC on the train!
The
Contract: our
contract is basically the standard Assured Shorthold
Tenancy agreement under the Housing Act.
Our
aim: is to
provide the best possible student accommodation in Cheltenham. We believe that
the University currently considers us one of the best landlords in town, but
you must check with them (officially, they do not make recommendations). Our
houses are registered with them and they conduct regular annual inspections.
Furthermore, they make a point of visiting all 1st years at our houses, once
they have settled in during the autumn term. If you wish to talk directly to an
Accommodation Officer, please see the University webpage
giving their telephone numbers. If there are any unresolved problems, you can
always contact them.
Safety: All our houses have electrically
connected smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors (where there is a gas
boiler), a fire extinguisher and fire blanket. All houses have electrical
safety test certificates (see www.yewtree.com/certs)
and where appropriate, gas safety certificates. All
of our properties have been completely renovated, including: boarding of all floors
with marine ply to contain smoke, changing all bedroom doors to fire doors with
intumescent strips where required by government legislation. Candles are not allowed to be brought into the house and
smoking is not permitted. Anyone burning a carpet will be buying
a new one. Most of our houses are licensed as HMOs (Houses in Multiple
Occupation) under the Housing Act as a result of being 3-storey houses with
more than 5 tenants.
Telephones: All houses have an incoming
telephone line - this will not allow normal outgoing calls, with the exception
of 999 & 0800 numbers.
TV: All houses have a television
connected to Virgin Media digital cable - we pay for the TV licence, which also
covers tenants' own TVs that they might use in their bedrooms - this is as a
result of having a joint tenancy agreement. Most of the larger houses have 50”
widescreen plasma HD TVs. All bedrooms have a digital Freeview signal available
where you can view over 30 TV & listen to over 20 radio channels. The analogue TV signal has already been
switched off in Cheltenham, so you will need a digital TV.
Internet: WiFi
is available in the first 14 houses on the list – when you search for WiFi networks, it will be obvious which one is for your
house. The password is the last 5 digits
of your house phone number. If you do
not have WiFi facilities on your computer, do not
panic - all bedrooms in all houses are connected to the internet via a LAN to
Virgin Media broadband - help will be given to set up a Windows LAN connection
if you have problems with your PC (but it is basically your problem if your PC
doesn't want to play ball). Essentially, we have installed a Local Area Network
in each house, connecting each bedroom in the house. In each bedroom there is
an RJ45 socket though which you can connect your PC via an RJ45 patch lead
(circa £7 from PC World, B&Q, Maplin or Staples).
If you haven't got an Ethernet card in your desktop PC, you'll need to buy one
(circa £10 from PC World - and that includes the patch lead), or, for laptop
PCs, a USB Ethernet adapter (about £40). All wiring is CAT-5 star networked
back to a broadband router. The router also allows file swapping and gaming
with others in the house. If you do not want others to access your hard drive,
do not enable that option. The router is linked to the Virgin Media cable
modem. Both router and modem should be permanently left on. If they fail to
allow access to the Internet anytime, re-boot both by switching off/on at the
plug (first of all though, switch off all PCs - not hibernate - and remove the
power lead - this will force the PCs to forget their IP address on the LAN -
otherwise you will get an IP conflict when you re-boot as the DHCP table is
reset and new IP addresses of the form 192.168.1.1xx are dynamically allocated
by the router to each PC). Broadband is 'always on'; you simply click on
Internet Explorer and you're away. The big advantage of broadband is, of
course, that you can all use the service simultaneously. The potential
bandwidth is shared equally between the active users at any specific moment in
time (ie those actually downloading at that
millisecond). We also have a secured wireless
network in each house – you will be notified of the password when
you move in. BBC
Speed Test provides a good test of broadband speed. It can be double-checks via BroadbandMAX.
Equipment: all our houses are well equipped
with cooker(s), washing machine, microwave, refrigerator(s), freezer(s), vacuum
cleaner, crockery, cutlery, saucepans, ironing board, etc. For legal reasons,
we do not provide small electrical items, such as: kettle, toaster, iron,
desk/bedside lamps, etc.
Maintenance: any faults with equipment we
provide will be rectified at our expense (unless abused by tenants).
Useful
advice: the
Accommodation office provides a useful booklet
in Adobe PDF format. Also on the front page of the Uni website www.glos.ac.uk there is a link to Virtual TOURS
– if you click that link and select the Private Student Accommodation link you
will end up here. The house chosen is one of mine – we own
another 11 similar ones in the road and around the corner.
Landlords: Allan & Joan Read
07715 661
604 (mobile
– TEXT is best),
Cheltenham 01242 22 00 77 or email allan AT read DOT net
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