Letting and operating of its own and leased stock, short-stay accommodation, and management of property on a fee basis.
382 Kenton Road, Harrow · Company No. 17428184
This page is laid out as a building and read from the pavement up: the ground plate, four shelves, the roof. Each shelf is a length of tenure, and the three registered activities divide along the same line.
What separates one plate from the next is not floor area. It is how often the door is re-let.
The shape of a terrace decides the work. One stair and one hall serve every flat, so a third-floor departure comes down past two front doors; dormers mean the top plate has sloped ceilings and its own alarms.
An illustrative architectural view drawn for this page. Not a photograph of a building this company owns, manages or lets.
The same building as the page uses it: a section, bottom up, activity marked against each plate. The control beneath walks the four shelves.
Two storeys of one house, set side by side because the office treats them as opposites.
Both illustrative drawings made for this page, not photographs of premises this company holds.
Every ledger here carries dates, counts and durations. None carries an amount.
Nothing on this plate is let. The company acts for somebody else, and the key that opens a door from it belongs to the owner.
An owner writes with an address and what they want done with it; a management agreement sets the scope before any key changes hands. Keys are then held at 382 Kenton Road on a tag carrying the number and nothing else, because a tag naming an address tells a finder where to go.
Contractors are instructed in writing against a described fault, access on the same order, so orders are raised per fault, not per visit. The owner is sent a statement on the agreed cycle.
One floor, one linen store, one key safe. Six two-night bookings and one twelve-night booking fill the same twelve nights, but the first needs six cleans and six codes.
A booking makes a guest, not a tenant: no tenancy, no deposit scheme, no notice period. An arrival window, a departure time, a changeover between.
Entrance code reset at each departure
The same flat behaves differently: one changeover covers the booking, linen is set once, any mid-stay service is agreed rather than imposed.
One turn, whatever the length
Strip, clean, re-set the linen, check the inventory, re-code the door. Step three sets it out hour by hour.
Worked as hours, never as a rate
The third plate is let, not occupied. Rent is payable monthly in advance on a stated day, the period runs from that day, and notice is given by the period, not the calendar month. No servicing, no linen.
The flat is the company's own or leased stock, which the ground plate never is.
The top plate is a term with a date on which it ends. Before the keys move: a right to rent check, the government guide for tenants, an energy performance certificate, the gas safety record, the electrical installation condition report.
It sits on the rolling plate for a reason: an assured shorthold neither renewed nor ended becomes the plate below.
Certificates belong to the building, not to a tenure. They expire on dates unrelated to when anybody moved in, so they are diarised from issue and never from the let.
That is why the roof is drawn across all four plates: one run of dates caps a two-night booking and a four-year tenancy.
Step seven sets all three on one scale, so a flat reads at a glance.
A month of bookings can be full and still impossible: the only empty hours are those between a departure and the next arrival. A same-day turn is worked as six hours, ten until four; one on a void night as ten.
Guide only — arithmetic from the figures entered
One pattern is counted in nights and the other in months, so neither sits beside the other until both are nights. The sheet converts on a thirty-night month, printed in every line because a month is not a constant.
Read down a column first and then across. The busier pattern is not automatically the fuller one: a short-stay column can carry seventy turns in a year and still stand empty for more nights than the assured column beside it. The turns are the work; the void nights are the cost of it.
Over 360 nights the assured column is occupied 114 nights longer, and the short-stay column carries 71 more changeovers — each one a clean, a linen set and an inspection.
Guide only