Everyone wants to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It is a completely understandable instinct. It is also, in practice, almost impossible to do, and the attempt to do it costs a lot of investors dearly.

There is a difference between finding a tenant and finding the right tenant. It sounds obvious but it shapes everything about how a letting should be approached, from how a property is presented and where it is advertised, to what kind of applicants it attracts and how they are assessed.

You are not there yet, but when an offer does come in and you accept it, the process that follows can feel like a bit of a mystery if you have not been through it recently. There is a lot of terminology and a fair few moving parts between that exciting moment and actually completing on your sale.

Being a landlord sounds straightforward until you actually become one.