Lots of people share rented property. Maybe you do. Here are five things you may not have realised: 1. All of the tenants are collectively ‘the tenant’ This means that they are generally dealt with as a group rather than individually. For example 2. All tenants are liable for all the rent jointly So if…
Repair problems in rented properties Sadly more common than it should be. Here are five tips which maybe you didn’t know: 1. The law says that your landlord must keep your property in proper repair. Your landlord is obliged by law to keep the structure of your rented property, and the installations for the supply…
Way back last August, I did a post on checkin procedures. This post is about the other end of the tenancy where you are supposed to have a check out meeting with your landlord or landlords agent or inventory clerk, to check the condition of the property. I was prompted to write this post by…
I thought I would make this the subject of my Monday tenants feature as I have come across this twice very recently. The first time , it was the subject of one of my Q&A answers which you can see here. In this case the tenants thought that they were going to be moving into…
Although I wrote about tenancy deposits last week, I thought it might be helpful just to do a brief summary of the current situation from the tenants point of view. Tenancy deposits law Under the Housing Act 2004, all deposits must by law be protected with a government authorised tenancy deposit scheme within 14 days…
Some time ago I did a post on locks and keys, and it is one of the posts on this blog which regularly attracts new comments, even though it was written quite a while ago. One of the recent comments is rather worrying. It is from Karen who says I recently changed the locks on…
This blog post is for tenants who rent a room (or two) in a shared house where they share facilities, such as kitchen and living room, in the property with other tenants. I was prompted to write this as I had an email from a tenant who said that one of his co-tenants smokes cannabis…
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