Terms & Conditions

By using www.manchesterdigs.com you agree to be bound by our Terms and Conditions. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.

Please note that we revise the right to making changes to our terms and conditions without prior notice.

Terms

Landlord

A Landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, or real estate which is rented to an individual who is called a tenant.

Perspective Tenant

Is a person or group of persons that are actively looking a renting out a house, apartment, or real estate from a perspective landlord by using ManchesterDigs.com.

The Website

Any information or data that is produced on www.manchesterdigs.com or www.manchesterdigs.co.uk.

Conditions

Landlord

  1. Registration
    1. If you choose to register with us, you must ensure that the information that you provide to us is accurate and you inform us immediately if any of the details you provide us change.
    2. We reserve the right to disable or remove your account without prior notice.
  2. Property Details
    1. We ask that all the information given to Manchester Digs is correct and to the best of your knowledge and in accordance with The Property Misdescriptions Act 1991.
    2. We reserve the right to change, edit or delete any property details without prior notice.
  3. Fees
    1. Your commitment to pay our agency fees arise once we have found tenants for a property that you own, you will be required to pay a fee of £150 + VAT in order secure the tenants for each property.
    2. If for some reason that after the contracts have been signed that a tenant pulls out, Manchester Digs accepts no responsibility for this and the letting fee will not be refunded.
    3. If any cheque or other form of payment to us is dishonoured, there will be a further charge of £25.00.
    4. We ask that you do not pass fees onto the students as we advertise to students that there are no agency fees.
  4. Viewings and Keys
    1. If we are providing a viewing service for you, as a landlord you must give us a set of keys for all the doors within the house and contact details for any tenants that may currently reside in the property.
    2. We will take all of the necessary security measure when holding keys but do not accept any responsibilities if any of the keys are stolen or miss used. We will however notify the landlord if such a breach is made.

Perspective Tenant

  1. Viewings
    1. After arranging viewings via the website we cannot guarantee that all of the viewings will be available at one time. If this is the case we will re arrange another time for you to arrange the viewings.
    2. After agreeing to attend a viewing you must attend and be on time. We politely advise that you aim to arrive at your first viewing or meeting point 5 minutes before the desired time.
    3. From time to time we may not be able to access all the rooms in the house. If this happens we will speak to the landlord and rearrange a viewing if necessary.
    4. If travelling in one of our employee’s vehicles we accept no responsibility for any injury that may be caused and you enter the car at your own risk.
  2. Contracts
    1. When signing the contract you must provide the landlord with all the information that he/she requires so that the contracts can be signed with minimal fuss.
    2. When you decide that you want to sign a contract for a property you must not arrange to meet or contact the landlord without our permission or without notifying us before the contract is signed. Any person that does this will be barred from using our service again in the future.

The Website

  1. Information
    1. We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
  2. Computer Misuse
    1. You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
    2. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
    3. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.