Sandton Letting Co runs joint ingoing and outgoing inspections with the landlord and the tenant present — photographed room by room, signed at the property, and in both inboxes before the agent has left the driveway.
What a Sandton Letting Co inspection gives a landlord and a tenant.
The inspection runs on the agent's phone: every room, every item, a photograph of every defect, each one timestamped.
Landlord and tenant sign on the screen, at the property, on the day. Nobody argues later about what was agreed.
A PDF of the full inspection, photographs included, is e-mailed to landlord and tenant the moment the last signature lands.
The outgoing inspection is walked against the ingoing one, so fair wear and tear is separated from damage with evidence, not memory.
From the booking to the deposit, in five steps.
Tell us the property and the date the tenancy starts or ends. We confirm a time that suits landlord and tenant.
The agent, the landlord and the tenant go through every room. Each item is rated and photographed as it is found.
Both parties sign on the phone at the property. The report is sealed the moment the second signature lands.
Landlord and tenant each receive the full PDF by e-mail within minutes, with every photograph attached.
At the end of the lease the outgoing report is compared to the ingoing one, so the deposit is settled inside the legal window with the evidence in hand.
The rules a joint inspection has to follow, and how each one is kept.
The Rental Housing Act requires a joint inspection at the start and the end of a lease. Every inspection we run is joint, or the report says why it could not be.
Rental Housing Act 50 of 1999, s 5(3)(e)–(f)
Once both parties have signed, the report is sealed. What either of you reads later is exactly what was agreed at the property.
Signed reports are immutable and time-stamped
Landlord and tenant details are processed under a written operator agreement, and every time anyone opens a report it is logged.
POPIA s 21 — operator agreement in writing
Yes — that is what makes it a joint inspection, and it is what the Rental Housing Act asks for. If you genuinely cannot attend, you may send someone in writing to sign on your behalf.
A two-bedroom flat takes about forty minutes. A larger house with a garden and outbuildings can take an hour and a half. The report is in your inbox within minutes of the last signature.
The item is photographed and both views are noted on the report before anyone signs. Disagreements recorded on the day are far easier to settle than ones raised at the end of the lease.
The outgoing inspection is walked against the ingoing one, and the deposit — less any agreed deductions — is refunded within the period the Act allows. The two reports side by side are what settles it.
Tell us the property and when the tenancy starts or ends, and we will confirm a time that suits everyone.