Letting Agents + Bankruptcy Filing: The Challenge
As letting agent, preparing bank statements for bankruptcy filing is a common but time-consuming task. Bankruptcy attorneys and filers need 6+ months of bank statements for means testing, Schedule I/J preparation, and trustee review in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cases.
How BankScan AI Helps Letting Agents with Bankruptcy Filing
Convert your client money account statements to Excel for fast reconciliation of rent receipts, deposit transfers, and management fee deductions. For bankruptcy filing specifically, BankScan AI extracts Current Monthly Income (CMI) for means test, payments to creditors in the 90 day automatically.
How Letting Agents Handle Bankruptcy Filing
When preparing bank statements for bankruptcy filing, letting agents need to Letting agents collect rent from tenants into client money accounts, deduct management fees, pay landlords their net rent, handle deposit protection s. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: client money protection, landlord statement, tenant deposit scheme, management fee.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload 6 months of statements for means test (CMI calculation); trustees may request up to 2 years to identify preferential or fraudulent transfers of statements for bankruptcy filing.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Current Monthly Income (CMI) for means test, payments to cre — formatted for letting agents workflows.
Complete your bankruptcy filing work
Download Excel files ready for bankruptcy filing. Income averaged over 6-month look-back period per means test form (B122A/B122C); expenses categorized per Schedule J; transfers over $600 in prior 2 years identified for SOFA
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Letting Agents — Bankruptcy Filing
- Built for Letting Agents — Saves 3-4 hours per week on client money account reconciliation for a letting agent managing 100+ properties
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Goodlord, Arthur Online, PayProp
- Built for Bankruptcy Filing — Convert bank statements to Excel for quick means test analysis, income/expense categorization, and complete financial disclosure required by bankruptcy courts.
- Key data extracted — Current Monthly Income (CMI) for means test, payments to creditors in the 90 days pre-filing (preferential transfers), insider payments in prior year, cash on hand at filing date
Compliance: Letting Agents + Bankruptcy Filing
When letting agents prepare bank statements for bankruptcy filing, specific compliance requirements apply.
- Letting agents must comply with Client Money Protection (CMP) schemes, which are now mandatory. The Tenant Fees Act 2019 restricts chargeable fees. Deposit protection within 30 days is a legal requirement. ARLA Propertymark members face additional auditing of client money accounts. Anti-money laundering rules apply to property transactions.
- Legal basis: 11 USC section 707(b) (means test for Chapter 7); 11 USC section 521 (debtor duties including document production); Bankruptcy Rules 1007 and 4002
Bankruptcy Filing — Built for Letting Agents
Bankruptcy petition triggers automatic stay immediately; however, required documents (including bank statements) must be filed within 45 days or the case may be dismissed
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