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We get a lot of pleas like this and it seems that you have to treat efforts to find a home as if they were job applications.
Put together a portfolio with little biographies of who you are and what you do (with pictures, if you can) and attach testimonials from employers, colleagues and previous landlords and agents (if you can get them).
Make it look as professional as you can, and generic so that you can print it out whenever you need to and attach it to the next application.
Also turn up for the inspections looking like you mean business – again, think job interview – not like you've just rolled out of bed on your way to brunch.
Don't forget that British backpackers have a terrible reputation in the rental industry, mainly for turning flats into de facto hostels, so you have to overcome that largely unfair stain on all young Brits' characters.
It's a very crowded market out there so you are competing with people who may look better than you on the basic forms (and you don't know what exaggerated claims they are making).
So you have to stand out. Attach your “pitch” document so, at the very least, the agents and landlords notice you.
Other tactics are to offer a bit more on top of the asking price or several months rent in advance. Be careful with the latter, though, as there are no clear-cut mechanisms for getting it back if it all goes pear-shaped.