HMO property

isplumm

captainzorro said:

Hi All
Wonder if someone can help with some advice.
I recently bought a Buy to Let property which is a HMO. 
What are my obligations as a landlord in addition to getting a gas safety certificate done for a HMO property?
Do these type of properties require an electricity safety certificate by law? Or Fire blankets?
Thanks

This amazes me - you have spent money setting up a business & getting a HMO - yet don't seem to understand your legal requirements?

I would suggest that you join the Residential Landlords Association (name might be wrong - existing Landlords on here will know better than me) & get yourself some training & education on your legal requirements - you don't want to be appearing on those slum landlord type of programmes!

Mark

dimbo61

If you have purchased a HMO then join the RLA.
Residential Landlords Association

captainzorro

thanks all - Well this property was bought off auction at a good price and as the solicitors said "there is a grey line in how this property can be perceived as ". It is an end terraced house, converted into two self contained flats therefore two dwellings, two council taxes. I will check with the council as have been getting different info. There are currently no tenants living in there.

MovingForwards

captainzorro said:

thanks all - Well this property was bought off auction at a good price and as the solicitors said "there is a grey line in how this property can be perceived as ". It is an end terraced house, converted into two self contained flats therefore two dwellings, two council taxes. I will check with the council as have been getting different info. There are currently no tenants living in there.

It would have been helpful if you said this in your opening post.

A HMO is one property with several different families / people living in it.

A self-contained flat is normally one or two people, together or sharing as mates. Or a family.

oldbikebloke

MovingForwards said:

captainzorro said:

thanks all - Well this property was bought off auction at a good price and as the solicitors said "there is a grey line in how this property can be perceived as ". It is an end terraced house, converted into two self contained flats therefore two dwellings, two council taxes. I will check with the council as have been getting different info. There are currently no tenants living in there.

It would have been helpful if you said this in your opening post.

A HMO is one property with several different families / people living in it.

A self-contained flat is normally one or two people, together or sharing as mates. Or a family.

i agree it would have been better if we had been told that to start with, however, your understanding of HMO is limited.

The property is a conversion into 2 flats. If that work was done before 1991 then it still can be an HMO even though they are self contained.... "a building which is converted entirely into self-contained flats if the conversion did not meet the standards of the 1991 Building Regulations and more than one-third of the flats are let on short-term tenancies". 
It is all to do with whether the work was done in accordance with building regulations applicable from 1991 onwards