There has been a positive flurry of tweets and emails crossing my computer screen today, preceding and then following, the announcement from the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Dept. about their plans for the Private Rented Sector.
You can read the news item here, and the report itself can be downloaded from here.
This follows on from [...]
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Government makes new announcements on the Private Rented Sector
Tenancy Agreements – resources on Landlord Law
Tenancy agreements and information on tenancy agreements is an important part of the Landlord Law service that I provide. Sometimes people find it difficult to locate all the tenancy agreement related resources on the site, so I have done this page of links to help them:
If you are not sure what type of tenancy agreement [...]
Urban Myth – tenancies must be ‘renewed’ when the fixed term ends
This is a myth largely created by letting agents, as an important part of their income stream comes from charging landlords for ‘renewals’ for tenants. But they are not actually necessary.
In a way, this post follows on from my last Urban Myth post about tenants staying on after the fixed term not being squatters. In [...]
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 [...]
Letting to tenants with pets
The Dogs Trust estimate that in the region of 40% of us in the UK have pets. Probably mostly dogs, cats and caged birds. As about 12-15% of the population live in rented accommodation it is fair to say that there must be many potential tenants looking for accommodation who have pets.
However many [...]
Student lettings – new agreements on Landlord-Law
I am just finishing a fairly long running project (about 2 months) to develop some new special tenancy agreements for student lets, for my Landlord-Law site.
Developed initially in response to a query from one of my members on the discussion forum, they are designed to deal with two particular problems with student lets:
The fact that [...]
Saving pdf tenancy agreements and forms
The Landlord-Law tenancy agreements are all in pdf format. This has always been the case, for a number of reasons. Most people can access and use pdfs whatever sort of computer they have via the free Adobe Reader (which you can download from www.adobe.co.uk); they are easy (relatively) for me to create; and [...]
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