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Self-managed and mixed portfolios
Manage some properties yourself and use an agent for others. The service level sits on each property, so a mix is normal.
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Self-managed means you run the tenancy yourself, with no agent. You propose and approve rent reviews, generate notices and record service on the same record.
Who this is for: landlords.
A mixed portfolio: some managed by an agent, some by you.
What you are deciding
Which of your properties you manage yourself, and which an agent manages.
Your options
- Self-managed. You do everything in your own account. There is no separate approval step.
- Managed by an agent. The agent's service level decides what they do; approvals come to you.
- Rent-to-rent. If you are the immediate landlord of the person living there, that tenancy is self-managed. Record it as self-managed, not as an agent service.
How to do it
- Open Your properties.
- Read the Service and Managed by columns for each property.
- Select self-managed at the top to see only the properties you manage yourself.
- Open a self-managed property to propose an increase, record certificates or serve a notice.
A worked example
J Ashworth owns 33 properties. Northgate Residential fully manages 32 of them; he manages 4 Kersal Vale himself. On Thursday 22 October 2026 he filters Your properties to self-managed, opens 4 Kersal Vale and proposes a new rent. There is no approval step: he generates Form 4A, signs it and records service himself.
What Abide.Rent does for you
- Shows who manages each property and the service level.
- Removes the approval step on self-managed properties.
- Keeps the history when a property moves between self-managed and an agent.
If something goes wrong
- The approval step appears on a property you manage yourself
What to do: The property is set to an agent's service level. Change the service on its Management tab. - “Instruction sits with the managing account.”
What to do: Only the account that manages the property can change its service.
Common mistakes
- Recording a rent-to-rent let as an agent service: if you are the immediate landlord, it is self-managed.
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