If your landlord is trying to evict you and you are finding it hard to find somewhere else to live, you may be entitled to be re-housed by your Local Authority.
If so, the most important advice is DON’T MOVE OUT! Because if you do, you will lose any right to rehousing that you have.
The rules [...]
Category Archives: Tips for tenants
Tenants legal help – local authority re-housing
Tenants legal help – vermin, who is responsible?
Liability for dealing with vermin
Vermin infestation in your home can be very upsetting. I sometimes get emails from tenants afflicted with all kinds of infestation:-
There’s a rat in the house
There’s a wasps nest in the loft
There are bed bugs
Etc
Who bears the cost of sorting this out?
To a certain extend the answer is ‘it depends’.
If you [...]
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. [...]
Tenants legal help – checkin precautions
Tenants checkin meetings and inventories
When you rent a property, you will often have a checkin or handover meeting before you move in. The landlord or agent will take you round and check the contents against the inventory list. You will then be asked to sign to confirm that everything is in order, before [...]
Tenants legal help – check the property before you sign the tenancy agreement
I advised a client recently who had an unusual problem. After signing the tenancy agreement for his rented property, he discovered there was a total stranger living in a studio flat above his garage! He had no idea that it was there.
Neither had he realized that there was only one water meter and [...]
Tenants legal help – thinking of sharing with a friend?
Tenants sharing rented property
Lots of people share rented property and often it works out. However sometimes it doesn’t. You need to be quite cautious about sharing a property with a friend, as if it all goes wrong it can turn out nasty. Depending on the friend of course.
Tenants – consider the following points:
How [...]
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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