A Guide to check in & check out reports, inventories & schedules of condition

TDS recognises that a wide variety of check-in and check-out reports, inventories and schedules of condition are in everyday use by landlords, agents and inventory companies. The intention of this guide is not to produce a model report for the lettings industry or to endorse a particular version currently in use.

Rather, this guide considers ‘best practice’ from an adjudicator’s viewpoint irrespective of whether the check in or check out report that is presented as evidence in a dispute was prepared by the landlord, the agent or by an independent inventory clerk.