What does the inventory report actually look like?

Three sample PDFs you can download — a move-in inventory, a check-out comparison and an inspection report, all produced by the template your own reports use.

These are real output rather than mock-ups. Each one comes off the same template that generates your own reports, filled in with invented details for a made-up two-bedroom flat, and stamped EXAMPLE on every page.

  • Move-in inventory — five rooms, eight photographs, and the signature block both you and your tenant sign.
  • Check-out inventory — the same flat a year later, with every room set side by side against how it was recorded at move-in.
  • Inspection report — a routine mid-tenancy inspection. This one is yours alone: it is never sent to the tenant for signature.

Each report opens on a cover page carrying the full address, both parties, the date, how many rooms and photographs it contains and a reference you can quote. After that comes one numbered section per room, with its condition notes and its photographs, each photograph numbered so it can be referred to later — "photo 2.3" means the third photograph of room two.

Every page is numbered and carries the report type, the property and the date along the bottom, so a single page separated from the rest of a bundle still says what it belongs to.

Worth knowing: The watermark is the only difference between these and the real thing. Your own reports are not watermarked, and nothing else about them changes — so what you can see here is what your tenant receives.

Not legal advice

These answers describe how Tenarize works and summarise the law in England as the product implements it. They are not legal advice about your situation, and the law changes. For free independent help, Citizens Advice and Shelter both cover renting in England; for anything unusual or contested, take advice from a solicitor.

Tenarize does not currently support Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, whose tenancy regimes are different.

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