Advance rent as deposit?
When a tenant appears to be a bit of a risk, rent wise, a landlord will generally either ask for a guarantee or an upfront payment of the first six months rent. They will normally also take a deposit which will be protected in the normal way.
But is the five months rent [...]
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Problems with advance rent payments
Tenants legal help – if you can’t afford to pay a deposit
Tenancy deposit problems
You have found the perfect property to rent, it is in the right area, the rent is affordable, but you just cannot pay the deposit. What can you do?
Local authority bond schemes
The best thing to do is to see if there is a deposit or bond scheme in your area which can help. [...]
Discharge bonus – an alternative to deposits?
Discharge bonus v. tenancy deposit
There is an interesting post over on the Pain Smith blog which raises a new alternative to tenancy deposits. A discharge bonus.
A discharge bonus is where the tenant pays no deposit (and so the landlord does not have to mess about with tedious tenancy deposit scheme administration) but if the tenant [...]
Without prejudice – what does it mean?
Starting a Saturday slot occasional series on legal phrases.
Without prejudice – what is it?
Without prejudice is one of those legal phrases which are often used in casual conversation, but what does it really mean?
Without prejudice is a useful way of protecting your position in a dispute. Say you are a landlord and have a [...]
The Novice Guide to Court Hearings – index
This was a seven part Saturday Slot series of posts on Court Hearings (in the UK) which ran in June/July 2010.
The seven parts were as follows:
Part 1 : Introduction
This introduces the series, sounds a few warning notes, and outlines the sort of hearings this series will be looking at. Which is mostly small claims, not [...]
Tenants legal help – is that rent increase valid?
Tenants legal help
As the value of money keeps going down and the cost of things keeps going up, your landlord is at some stage going to want to increase your rent.
That’s understandable, but if you have just received a letter from your landlord setting out a whopping big increase, your first thought (or maybe your [...]
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Landlord responsibilities – what being a landlord really means
Landlord responsibilities are not the first thing most people think about when they consider investing in property. But it is important to realise that if you become a landlord, you are taking on legal obligations as well as an income stream.
Landlord responsibilities – what are they?
There are many legal obligations that you will have [...]
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