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 as yet [...]
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Tenancy Agreements 31 days of tips – Day 4 – tenancy types
Letting to companies
Most residential lets are to people, real people who are alive and who physically live in the property. However sometimes lettings are made to a limited company. If this happens there are a number of important differences and a few things to watch out for.
Firstly, lets to companies are not assured shorthold tenancies [...]
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Warning to landlords of pre 1997 high rent common law tenancies
Common law tenancy changes on 1 October 2010
As you should be aware by now, on 1 October (unless the coalition government decide to change things) all non regulated/common law tenancies where the rent is between £25,000 and £100,000 will convert automatically to assured shorthold tenancies.
Except that some of them won’t.
As pointed out by the PainSmith [...]
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