How to book your accommodation?

Guidelines

When you have located the right student property for you, you will be asked to book the property. Please follow the guidelines below for booking a property:

• You will be asked as a group to fill out a booking form each, this form is for all private and confidential information that we will keep on file about you.
• You will be asked to pay a deposit of £250.00 and a booking fee of £50.00 each.
• Upon booking you will need to supply the management team with a copy of your University student card.
• The £250.00 is used as a holding deposit and will not become returnable until you have signed the tenancy agreement and taken up occupation of the property you have booked.
• The £50.00 booking fee is non-returnable.
• You will be asked to sign a joint and several tenancy agreement (only if you have booked in a group) for the property you have chosen, this agreement must be signed by all tenants taking the property and it must be sign by all before move in date on the 1st September. (A copy of the tenancy agreement document is sent to each guarantor)
• We then send a form for your parents/guardian to fill out and return to us which must be sent back to us with in seven days. This form if to guarantee that if you do not pay your rent or if you damage the property in any way then the cost of all the above is guaranteed to be paid.  For more information regarding your guarantor please look at the FAQ’s.
• Once all documents are in and everyone has paid the booking is complete.

Rent payments

Rent is payable in advance:

• 1^st term is due on 12^th August 2008 (4 months)
• 2^nd term is due on 12^th January 2009 (4 months)
• 3^rd term is due on 26^th April 2009 (3 months)

Monthly payments can be also be made. This needs to be mentioned when booking.

Student activities and events

At the Manor Villages, we realise how important it is to get involved with many of the activities and hobbies in which you, the students, take part.

For the academic year 2007-2008 we have organised many events:

• Attended Freshers fayre for the full 3 days at the beginning of the 1st semester in 2007.
• Sponsorship of The University of Nottingham Tennis Club
• Full sponsorship of the Mongol Rally 2007, which involved four students driving a 3rd of the way around the world in a race from Hyde Park London to Mongolia, in order to raise money for the charity “Mercy cops”.
• An organised night out for our tenants at OCEANA nightclub.
• We plan to attend re-freshers fayre at the end of January 2008.
• Full sponsorship of the Snowflake ball for the University of Nottingham organised and run by the charity fundraisers Karni.

We are attending Freshers' Fayre, organised nights for our tenants at night clubs, and many more events.