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HMO - help needed
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This is just another indication of what happens when much of the housing in the U.K is supplied by private landlords. Don`t get me wrong as I am sure many landlords provide suitable rentals and have done so for many years. However some of the people that have been piling in during the last few years are clueless. I feel that there needs to be far more regulation if private letting is to work in a proper manner.
The problem with introducing more regulation is that it drives up the workload. That means the good LL need to pass onto tenants the extra cost. Other LLs will drop out, providing less competion and so drive up rental costs too.
Meanwhile the bad LLs will continue to ignore the extra legislation as they ignore much of the legislation today, thereby still exposing the clueless tenants and particularly those in most need since the bad LL tend to cater for the lower end of the market.
End result? Some tenants paying more for probably little gain. Those who don't pay more will remain exposed to current bad LLs"Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 20100 -
If it's a deposit, it should be protected (assuming it falls within the terms of the legislation)
If it's rent in advance, it doesn't need to be protected. Rent in advance is just that and cannot be used to make deductions from e.g. dilapidations at the end of the tenancy.
Does the LL also live in the house? If so, its not an ASTA so there is no requirement for the deposit to be protected.
What about a written agreement?
He has more than one house,i am not sure if he lives there.
He Has said he will have to write out the contract,and i have told my friend to check it, whatever he has written ,before he signs it.0 -
He has more than one house,i am not sure if he lives there.....
What do you mean? You don't know if the LL lives in the same house you do? "Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 20100 -
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I am not sure if the landlord lives in the same house my friend is going to lodge in.The LL has several houses.
If your friend is only a lodger, then there is no requirement to protect the deposit.
Deposits are only required to be protected if the property is let under an assured shorthold tenancy agreement.
(though I think I would have wanted to know the address I could contact someone at before I handed over any money to them!)"Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 20100
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