Can you force tenants to do things?

RobertoMoir

King_Of_Bling wrote: »

That's what i meant.

Sadly for you, that agreement is about two joint owners of a property deciding in advance which one of them takes on the responsibilities that fall to any owner. Doesn't help you with renting to tenants.

If you don't want to deal with the problems of letting to tenants then being a landlord is not for you. Lots of LLs and tenants here will tell you that it's far from "buy property, watch money fall out of the sky into your lap".

sonastin

King_Of_Bling wrote: »

Is it legal to require house rental tenants to sign a contract so they are responsible for all repairs etc. like you can with commercial tenants? Say the boiler breaks down, they pay for the repair, if the drains get blocked because they poured fat in there, they have to pay for it to get it unblocked...and other things like these.

The reason it can be done with commercial tenants is that it is assumed a business has the nouse to understand what it is getting into and the wherewithall to seek advice if it doesn't.

When a business (e.g. a landlord) deals with Joe Public, the law assumes that the person involved won't understand the contract (because some people can't) and so the business can't take advantage of the individual.

If you tried to force the tenant to take on responsibilities which aren't normally the tenants problem, the law would judge you to be taking advantage of your knowledgeable position as a business and wouldn't enforce it.