Landlord Advice helps landlords and estate agents to resolve issues with tenants.
Our advisers have recently helped with a range of queries:
Legal Requirements
- Registering as a joint landlord
- Right to access a rented property
- Moving house during COVID-19 restrictions
Looking after your property
- Addressing damp and mould
- Dealing with mice
- Disrepair and over-occupation
- Rubbish - whose responsibility?
- Pets in properties
- Dealing with damage
Benefits to help with rent
- Moving from Housing Benefit to Universal Credit
- Issues with Universal Credit payments
- Renting to family members
- Rates rebate, when should a landlord refund a tenant?
Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO)
- Buying a House in Mulptiple Occupation (HMO)
- HMO licensing issues after death of landlord
- New HMO legislation
Rent issues
Ending a tenancy
- Landlord needs to sell
- Abandoned property
- Dealing with the death of a tenant
- New notice periods for private landlords
- Upcoming changes to legal responsibilites for landlords
- No right to succession; tenancy ends and new tenancy begins