Rent Setting
We aim to charge rents which are affordable for tenants. Rents cover the cost of:

• managing and maintaining your homes 
• repaying any mortgages or loans owing
• setting aside money for repairs that will be needed in the future
  

We use different ways for setting the rents for different types of tenancy.

New Scottish Secure Tenants
The Association sets the rents for Scottish Secure Tenants who were not previously secure tenants.  We take into account the need to cover our costs as described above.  The new rent, including any services, will be applied on the 28 March each year.  Like most Associations we use a ‘points system’ to calculate the rent for each house.  This means the rent depends on the size, type of house and the facilities it has.

Former Secure Tenants
These tend to be long-standing tenancies where the rents are set by the Rent Officer every three years.
They are houses that were transferred from another landlord. We have a small number of these houses and usually the maximum annual rent increase was agreed at the time they were transferred.