Category Archives: Tips for tenants

Posts aimed at helping tenants

Tenants legal help – thinking of sharing with a friend?

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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:…

Tenants legal help – is that rent increase valid?

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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…

Tenants legal help – how to protect yourself against rogue landlords

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An interesting article in the Cash section of the Observer today looks at the increasing tendency of tenants to check up on their landlords before signing a tenancy agreement. And quite right too! As has been reported on this blog in the past, innocent tenants have been known lose their homes at short notice and…