What happens when damage has been detected?

As soon as we discover that damage has occurred to the house or that something has been lost, we will discuss this immediately with the landlord and tenant. Loftly mainly checks the “big” cases, where the landlord can supply an inventory list with us. Since we always withhold a deposit until the final inspection has taken place, we can recover damages from the tenant if necessary. It is also useful as a landlord to check whether your belongings are insured during the rental of your home.

This is mainly relevant for private landlords who have recently occupied the property. Too much stuff can ensure that the house looks messy or attracts more dust. Precious items and items with emotional value are often removed or stored in a closet or room that can be locked. A tenant does need closet space, so the wardrobe needs to have storage / storage space.

We’d offer financial and technical management

Technical management is, as the name suggests, the management of technical maintenance in and around the house. Think for example of solving leaks or repairing central heating boilers, locks or windows. We can approach several regular partners what saves the landlord a lot of time. Loftly also coordinates the process of carrying out work with the tenant.

We offer optional technical management for 3% extra per month.

Financial management is checking whether the monthly rental flows have been paid in time and possibly reminding tenants of missed payments. Financial management is already standard included with Loftly short-stay rentals.

If you choose Loftly for management of the whole rental including management then we take care of the collection of the rent. Loftly pays you on the first day of the next month. The fee that you owe us will be settled monthly with the rent and you will receive a detailed payment of this. If you choose a one-off mediation without management at Loftly, only the first payment will go through us and you will be responsible for collecting the rent.

The VAT rate of 21% applies to our mediation services. The VAT rate for cleaning is 6%.

If you rent out a second home and are taxed according to box 3 then the condition is that you are not allowed to provide active labor for the rental income to be received. The tax authorities are very strict in this and the smallest actions can already be regarded as active labor. By working with Loftly you give active work, as it were, out of your hands and that ensures that you do not have to worry about whether your rental income remains untaxed. Costs incurred are not deductible in box 3.

If you are taxed according to box 1, the costs you pay for our service are deductible from the 70% of the rental income.

As soon as a tenant checked out, we ensure that the apartment looks completely in order again for home arrival or new viewings. We work with professional cleaners. If you have rented the house furnished, we also ensure that the bed linen and towels are washed. In addition, the cleaning team works with a checklist for tasks that they have to perform and you can update this checklist yourself if desired.

Under the heading ” Rent your house ” or you can contact us via email: info@loftly.nl or phone: 010-307 32 53.

Short-stay is a stay of at least one week and less than 6 months, long-stay is a stay of 6 months or longer. Short-stay homes are fully furnished more often than long-stay homes. At long-stay apartments, you often see that rental prices are excluding gas, water and electricity and in short-stay rentals this is often included. Short-stay rates are often more attractive for the lessor as the agreements are of a temporary nature and therefore more flexible, so you can ask for a higher rental price. With long-stay, tenants almost always want to register at the address and in short-stay this is not always the case.

For convenience, assuming that there is still a mortgage on the house that you want to rent out, the first step is to make an appointment with the bank or mortgage provider. They will eventually have to give permission to you to rent the property. The money they have borrowed you is still in the home. On the other hand, banks do want to receive their interest every month and so they will consider whether and under which conditions the renting out of your house is possible.

When there is no mortgage on the house, you are simply free to do what you want and renting is no problem at all.

Loftly is a short and long stay rental agency who is mainly active in the center of Rotterdam and the neighboring districts. We specialize in temporarily renting out living spaces to expats and international students. Our rental agreements are usually of a temporary nature with a minimum rental period of one month and a maximum period of two years. Rental for an indefinite period is also possible.

Loftly combines the short and long stay rental effortlessly with each other. Most rental brokers offer their services from 6 months or a year and with us you can go for rental from one month. The minimum availability of a home must be 2 months.

A temporary rental agreement differs from a contract for an indefinite period on a number of points. The main difference is that as a landlord you can terminate the rent according to the law on the end date stated in the agreement. The landlord must then confirm this in writing to the tenant at least 1 and no more than 3 months before the end of the tenancy. If this does not happen, the contract will automatically become indefinite.

There is a lease for an indefinite period if no end date is included in the rental agreement. A tenancy agreement for an indefinite period can be canceled by the landlord if there is a legal ground for cancellation, for example, if the tenant has not acted as a good tenant. Think of considerable rent arrears or if the landlord can demonstrate that he urgently needs the rented home for his own use.

Are you in possession of a house and do you want to rent it out? Then you must pass this on to your insurer and get permission from your mortgage provider. This also applies if you rent your home temporarily, because you go abroad, for example. In that case, some insurers will charge a higher premium for home insurance, because they assume that the risk of damage is higher when rented. There are insurers where you are automatically insured for private holiday rentals.

If you rent your house unfurnished you can often cancel your home insurance and take out a separate insurance policy. In some home insurance policies, however, you can simply set the value of household effects to zero, so that you do not pay more premium than necessary.

Most of our apartments are leased to internationally operating companies or expats. We have close contact with a number of companies, so when they rent the apartment from us we know that the rental is good. In these cases, the company also pays the rent and the company is liable for any damage.

Expats are examined by us for reliability. We ask at all times for a copy of the passport, copy bank card, employer’s statement and the three most recent payslips. Once we have received this, we will contact the company where they work to check that all information is correct.

There are many international students who are looking for (temporary) accommodation in Rotterdam. They often receive a scholarship with which they can also pay for living space. In almost all cases the parents still guarantee.

We charge a monthly fee on the rent. This depends on the period of rental. We work with a scale that is set up as follows:
Rentals 1 to 3 months = 15% including technical management, 12% exclusive technical management
Rentals 3 to 6 months = 12% including technical management, 9% exclusive technical management
Rentals longer than 6 months = 10% including technical management, 7% exclusive technical management

The above prices are all exclusive of VAT.