EICR

e34

I believe the law states in April 2021 a landlord needs an EICR. I started renting my property out in October 2021. No mention of an EICR, it's only last week l heard the term.
I decided whilst getting the property ready for tenants, I d upgrade the consumer unit. I wasn't told l had to, just felt it needed new MCB type.
So l received an EIC for this, which Haarts the agents have had from day 1.
No mention of EICR as l say, so the short story is have they done wrong 

TheJP

If you are the landlord then it's your responsibility not your letting agent.

35har1old

TheJP said:

If you are the landlord then it's your responsibility not your letting agent.

If the estate agent is managing the property its upto them to arrange for these inspections.
If the agent was to only to find a client then it's the Landlord 

chrisw

It's the landlord's responsibility to comply with any legislation regardless. Depending on what you're paying the agent for, you could argue that they've breached their contract or been negligent. However, the important thing is that you have an EICR ip place now.

You might want to check the status of other things like the gas safety certificate while you're at it.

theartfullodger

35har1old said:

TheJP said:

If you are the landlord then it's your responsibility not your letting agent.

If the estate agent is managing the property its upto them to arrange for these inspections.
If the agent was to only to find a client then it's the Landlord 

Nope.  It's the landlords responsibility,- and rather more importantly he's the one who'll find he might not be able to easily evict through not complying with the law. (I've been a landlord for 25 years, still learning, still making mistakes).

Depending on his contract with the lettings agent he might have a case for compo from agent for their failure to comply with contract.  But that doesn't erase landlords stupidity.

Remember in England to be a lettings agent requires no qualifications, no training, no criminal records check.

Which country?  (Eg Wales, NI?)

Best wishes to all 

e34

Right understood. I m waiting on Haarts to find the contract.
I have  an email from May 2021 from not the property management team, the finding tenant team! This says l need an EPC and gas certificate and an electrical safety certificate, which l know now is an EICR.
So Haarts organised the EPC and gas, didn't follow up with the EICR. They said l could do that myself but l didn't, so assumed haarts would realise one wasn't in place

e34

By the way, l take offence for my " stupidity"