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Landlord's Guide to Tenant's Rights
This essential guidebook for landlords answers all your questions about tenancy law and tenant's rights.
Residential Lettings: The Complete Guide
Tessa Shepperson
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ISBN: 9781907765292
Edition: Eighth
Published: July 2010
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Edition: Eighth
Published: July 2010
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"A must-read for every landlord, whether novice or expert."
National Landlords Association
Residential Lettings is the definitive guide to creating and managing residential lettings.
It is packed with real life landlord and tenancy tips and letting experiences, and has been written by one of the country's top specialists in landlord and tenant law, Tessa Shepperson.
"...useful to all landlords, from professionals with large rental portfolios to people letting rooms in their home... Covers everything landlords need to know about managing short-term residential lets. Written in a clear, easy to understand style."
Eastern Daily Press
Step by step we take you through each one of the legal and practical issues that each landlord must confront, for every tenancy:
- How to prepare your rental property for tenants
- Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs)
- How to find the right tenant for you
- The terms you need in a tenancy agreement
- What to do with your tenant deposits
- Collecting and increasing rent
- Landlord duties to repair and maintain the rental property
- How to renew a tenancy
- How to evict problem tenants
- What to do at the end of a tenancy
Plus we give you plenty of sound, practical advice and real-life examples along the way.
"A well-researched and up-to-date title from an established and trusted specialist in the landlord sector, which no landlord should be without."
Landlord Magazine
- So what exactly does it mean to be a landlord?
- What are your rights as a landlord?
- What can your tenants do? And what can't your tenants do?
- And what can you do about it?
Residential Lettings will tell you exactly what the legal obligations are that you are taking on under a tenancy agreement and talk you through your legal responsibilities. Landlords are subject to a plethora of regulations, and ignorance is no excuse under the law. This bestselling Landlord's Bible is now in it's eighth edition and provides all the latest up-to-date information and tips that a landlord needs.
| Review from Amazon customer (December 2009) |
| Excellent - every landlord needs a copy |
| "I've heard it estimated that there are more than 50 bits of legislation affecting residential lettings. For new landlords, it can be an absolute quagmire to navigate - and even for experienced landlords, it's hardly easy. Tessa Shepperson is an experienced and knowledgeable solicitor specialising in residential property matters, and she is the perfect person to guide us through the chaos. The book covers all the areas that a landlord will need to consider, beginning with an overview of the legal framework and all the different regulations that need to be obeyed. There are further chapters on finding a tenant, preparing the paperwork, tenancy deposits, matters which might arise during the life of the tenancy, and the end of the tenancy. A chapter on problem tenants is particularly useful. Everything is written with admirable clarity, and is immensely readable. If you only buy one book as a landlord, make it this one. What's particularly impressive about this book is that it's updated so frequently. My 2008 edition covers, for example, tenancy deposit schemes and Local Housing Allowance, both fairly recent changes. This diligence from both author and publisher is commendable, and I hope that this will continue for many more editions to come." |
About the Author
Tessa Shepperson is a solicitor specialising in residential landlord and tenant work, concentrating on legal work for private residential landlords. She is also the author of Taking in a Lodger - An Essential Legal Guide and The Essential Landlord's Guide to Tenants’ Rights, which are also published by Lawpack.
Residential Lettings: The Complete Guide
Landlord and tenancy Contents
1. The legal framework: landlords and the law
- Licences and tenancies
- Resident landlords
- New tenancies, fixed-term and periodic tenancies
- Section 20 notices
- Guarantees
- Joint and several liability
- Letting your own home
- Premiums
- Succession rights
- Eviction of tenants and eviction notices
2. Initial considerations for landlords
- ‘Location, location, location’
- What is your intended type of tenant?
- Building or other work
- Fixtures and fittings/furniture
- The availability of grants
- Furnished or unfurnished?
- Achievable rent/financial considerations
- Tenant default
- Buying properties with existing tenants
- Local authority assistance
- Landlords’ associations
3. Preparation of the property for tenancy
- Permission for letting and planning permission
- Renovations and repairs
- Local authority powers
- Building regulations
- Heating and condensation
- Gas and electricity regulations
- Fire safety, water and energy efficiency
- Fitting out the rental property
- Product safety regulations
- Furniture and furnishings
- Disabled tenants
- Smoking
- Insurance
- Rent
- Accreditation
4. Houses in multiple occupation (HMO)
- What is an HMO?
- Households and HMO exceptions
- HMO licensing
- How to work out how many storeys there are
- Temporary Exemption Notices (‘TENs’)
- Amenity standards
- HMO fees
- HMO penalties
- The management of HMOs
- HMO tenants
5. Finding a tenant: tenant checks and tenant verification
- Letting agents
- Advertising for tenants
- The Property Misdescriptions Act 1991
- The paramount importance of a good tenant
- Tenant referencing
- Credit reference agencies
- Housing Benefit tenants and claw-back
- Local Housing Allowance
6. The tenancy agreement
- Why and when is a tenancy agreement necessary?
- The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999
- Individual terms you will need in the tenancy agreement
- Essential tenancy terms
- Obtaining tenancy agreements
- Housing law reform
7. Tenancy deposits
- Deposits where the schemes don't apply
- Fair wear and tear
- Dealing with deposits and at the end of the tenancy
- Taking a deposit subject to the statutory tenancy deposit schemes
- Which tenancy deposit scheme should you use?
- How the tenancy deposit schemes work
- Dealing with arbitration
- Avoiding the tenancy deposit schemes
- Penalties for non-compliance
8. During the tenancy
- The covenant of quiet enjoyment
- The rent book
- Collecting and increasing the rent
- Challenges to the rent – the Rent Assessment Committee
- Repairing duties/access
- Housing Benefit
- New tenancy agreements
- Tax considerations
- Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax and VAT
9. Problem tenants and tenant eviction
- Harassment legislation
- Evicting tenants
- Grounds for possession
- Eviction notices
- Possession proceedings
- Evicting Rent Act tenants
- Common law tenancies
- Squatters and licensees
- Enforcement of possession orders
- Excluded tenancies or licences
- Money claims
10. At the end of a tenancy
- When does the tenancy end?
- Handover procedure
- Tenant’s property left behind
- Death of a tenant
- After the tenant has gone
- Utilities and post
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