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Tenancy Agreements 31 days of tips – Day 4 – tenancy types

Tessa

This is day 4 of my 31 days of tips on tenancy agreements series. To see the rest of the series click here. Legal background In their consultation paper on housing law, the Law Commission identified 13 different tenancy/occupation types, and their recommendation was to cut these down to two. Sadly their recommendations have not…

Tenancy Agreements 31 days of tips – Day 3 – tenancy or license?

Tessa

This is day 3 of my 31 days of tips on tenancy agreements series. To see the rest of the series click here. Is your agreement a tenancy or a license? Law is never straightforward. Just to make things a little bit more complicated, in law there is a difference between a license and a…

Tenancy Agreements 31 days of tips – Day 2 – why use one?

Tessas TIps for Landlords on Tenancy Agreements - day 2

This is day 2 of my 31 days of tips on tenancy agreements series. To see the rest of the series click here. Why use a tenancy agreement? Contrary to what many might think, it is not actually necessary (at the moment) to have a written tenancy agreement to create a tenancy.  Why have one then? …

Tenancy Agreements 31 days of tips – Day 1 – an introduction to the series

Tessas Tips for Landlords on Tenancy Agreements - day 1

Welcome to this series on tenancy agreements. Over the next 31 days I will be looking at all aspects of tenancy agreements. Why we need them, the different types of agreement, the clauses you need, the formalities involved, and much more. As it is quite a large subject, I should start off by saying what…