Requirements, listings, availability, and property management.
In order to ensure a high quality service for the benefit of the tenant, the owner guarantees the correct fulfillment of the following obligations in relation to the rented property:
Good photos and a video are crucial for presenting your property. In this day and age, images have become increasingly important. Here are some tips and tricks:
Less clutter gives the impression of more space, so store things you don’t need to make rooms look more spacious.
It is important to give the prospective tenant a realistic picture of the property. A picture says more than a thousand words.
The best way to avoid visits from interested tenants is by providing a walk-through video. This is as simple as turning on your video camera on your mobile phone and walk through every room in the apartment, preferably in less than 2 minutes.
A complete and honest description of the property is a must. This can be in your own words, in your own language. Our editors at the Globexs office will make it sound professional and attractive. Please talk about the apartment, the entrance, every room, the parking facilities, the neighborhood, the neighbors, etc… The more information the better.
Our supply team and marketing team is at your service for tips and tricks!
The answer to this question depends on the location of the apartment.
In Spain many Globexs owners are foreigners who bought a second home apartment. They use their apartment for their yearly holiday, and use the Globexs platform to rent it out the rest of the year. This is perfectly fine if the owner communicates efficiently with Globexs: At the beginning of the year the owner communicates with Globexs when exactly he wants to make personal use of his apartment, and we organize the rentals around these dates. It is perfectly fine that the owner makes personal use of his apartment for 1-2 months a year.
In other countries such as Belgium and Holland the average duration of a standard rentals is a bit longer and the owners have a different profile. In Belgium we usually demand a more continuous availability from the owner. By all means, Globexs is not the right platform for owners who go on holiday for 6 months and make some extra income during their absence.
Thank you for reaching out to Globexs, but unfortunately there is nothing we can do with an unfurnished apartment. Globexs is specialized in expat rentals, and expat rentals are always fully furnished, equipped and connected.
Globexs rents furnished apartments for periods between 1-11 months. All the apartments that we manage have the following features:
(Only relevant for owners on a Premium or Superior plan)
The following house rules apply to all Globexs apartments (except when overruled by the rental contract).
In case one of the above house rules is not respected, this will be considered a serious error, which entitles the owner to immediately terminate the rental agreement, without notice, in which case the tenant is obliged to pay to the owner an indemnity of the amount of a full month’s rent for this error (in addition to other eventual costs for indemnification of damages that would be caused to the property by the tenant).
The Globexs apartments are only intended for use as a temporary housing accommodation. The tenant is not permitted to make it his/her principal or main place of residence unless specific permission is given in writing. The tenant shall immediately notify Globexs by registered letter if his/her principal or main place of residence changes.
It is not permitted to exercise any trade or craft in the property, nor any other profession.
The property cannot entirely or partly be sublet or made available to third parties, nor can the rent be transferred to third parties.
If the tenant fails to meet the obligations stated above about the intended use of the property, the owner will consider this as a serious shortcoming, which entitles the owner to invoke the automatic dissolution of the agreement without prior notice and to charge the sum of a full month’s rent as a penalty to the tenant. Moreover, in that case, the owner is also entitled to claim damages, such as material damage and taxes to which the owner would be bound by the mere fact that the property is rented for a professional purpose or if the property is used as a principal or main place of residence.
Globexs is the contact person during the complete stay of the tenant. In case of problems, both the owner and the expat (tenant) contact their Globexs agent who will try to solve the problem by appropriate intermediation.
