When I had my lightbulb moment back in March and went off to develop the Easy Law for Landlords course, one of the things on the List-I-Didn’t-Want-To-Do, was re-developing the Landlord Law do it yourself kits.
However as the course is now chugging away nicely, it is time to revisit the kits, and so I have spend much of the week working on a new version.
I’ve more or less finished the accelerated possession kit along with a section on instructing bailiffs and will probably be making it live next week. Its looking very nice with pictures of the forms with yellow arrows all over them.
But what happened on the blog?
Monday
Housing law – the bigger picture – regulation, what regulation?
My bigger picture series continues with me daring to suggest that a landlords register might be a useful idea. Inevitably landlords post comments saying ‘no it wouldn’t’. See why here …
Tuesday
Six months rent in advance is a deposit says Judge
Its only a County Court decision, but it’s brought forth a raging discussion where some are claiming that ANY rent paid in advance must be a deposit requiring protection failing which landlords will be guilty of nameless horrors AND be unable to avoid a claim under the tenancy deposit regulations. We lawyers are a bit sceptical of all this but are unable to deny it altogether as legislation can be silly. Read all about it here …
What is the effect of using the wrong tenancy agreement?
A blog clinic question where the questioner has used the wrong tenancy agreement. Find out why here …
Wednesday
Do landlords have a lien over tenant’s property?
My stats show that people have been asking this, so here is an answer. Find out what it is here …
Thursday
What can be done about black mould in the bedrooms?
A blog clinic question this, which I did not really have an answer to (not being a surveyor) but readers have come up with some great comments. So this post is really quite a good resource now on what to do about black mould. Read it here …
Friday
Ben Reeve Lewis Friday newsround #64
As I write Ben is on holiday in Galway in Ireland (somewhere I would love to go to) but bless him, even amidst the excitement of packing, he still sent in his column. A cracker too full of tales of benefits cuts for the under 25s, IDS, cognitive linguistics and spoof news items on slaughtering first borns. Read it here …
Further reading
- If you fancy putting the nations law in order >> this may interest you – a Wikipedia like suggestion for the UK Legislation database
- Here is the Guild of Landlords’ take on the rent-in-advance-is-a-deposit discussion
- A post from Nearly Legal on the Property Tribunal’s approach to the HHSRS and excess cold cases