Renting: The Essential Guide to Tenants' Rights

This essential guidebook for tenants will answer all your questions about tenancy law, tenant's rights and how tenants are protected by the law.

'This guide not only contains a wealth of information which can be put to good practical use, it is also a delight to read’
Jacky Peacock OBE, Director of Brent Private Tenants' Rights Group

Are you a tenant who is in the dark when it comes to how your landlord should be behaving?
Are you having to cope with a rogue landlord?
Do you know how your tenant deposit should be protected and how often your landlord should do repairs?
This book will answer all questions that tenants have about the law and tenancy.

Written by Tessa Shepperson, a specialist in tenancy law, this book has been written to help you understand the law as it affects you as a tenant. In a practical and easy-to-understand manner, this guide tells you exactly what your tenants rights are. 

Renting: The Essential Guide covers...

• Tenancy Deposit Schemes
• The fine line between landlord demands and landlord harassment
• Tenant Eviction and the law on evicting a tenant
• When a deduction from the rent can be made by a landlord (and when it can’t)
• Housing Benefits and the law
• Legal proceedings and court cases
• HMOs (Houses of Multiple Occupation) and the law