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General Category / **Tenancy Deposits** / Tenancy Deposit Scheme
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on: March 29, 2007, 11:06:26 PM
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So 7th April this all starts does it....
Well who intends to actually do any of this? Nothing I have read says very much, you give the deposit to Computershare Services Investor Plc or take out insurance - another insurance policy - nothing about schedules of condition to be filed with the deposit!
Now call me stupid but I would think this is a critical bit of information for resolving a dispute when I say the carpet was perfect and the tenant says not, a sign schedule of condition from when you moved in.....
Now if I have my tenants deposit and I don't give them the paperwork to say I have put it in any of these schemes they in reality do what for there under £1000 deposit, not pay the last months rent like all tenants do!!
BTW If my tenants pay there rent on time though the term I tend to be lenient when giving back deposits as you always need to tidy up a property imho
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General Category / Tenancies / TDS Scheams
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on: September 30, 2006, 11:43:47 PM
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Okay so as a landlord you have a requirment to put the deposit in a TDS or insure it in some way:
So where are the scheams then!!???
Thanks
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General Category / Tenancies / The new laws
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on: September 30, 2006, 11:40:06 PM
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I have been reading up on the new housing laws and things all look good - is this a fair comment.
You can still serve 2 months notice on a tenant but now at any time even in the first term.
Do you still use the same S21 notices - would think not!
Does the tenant still need two months rent arreas for a court to have to order possion?
Are there any pit falls to watch out for? Is it still good pratic to serve a notice for possion at the begining of the tenancy?
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General Category / Houses in Multiple Occupation / Re: Definition of HMO
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on: September 30, 2006, 11:35:53 PM
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Good question. Some councils and local authorities can be quite funny. I rent with two other people, we have a joint tenancy and a joint bank account for the rent so I would say we are quite clearly not an HMO! However if we all paid our rent seperatly to the landlord under the terms of our joint contract would it still be as clear cut....
We are three people living our own lives sharing communial parts of the property. The key IMHO is the fact we have a joint contract. However I have head of councils trying to apply all the HMO rules to 2 bed flats that are rented to sharers!!
Is there a decent definition out there?
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