Renters’ Rights Act enforcement split into breaches and offences
Author: Judith Wordsworth
1st April 2026, 3 months ago | 33
Judith Wordsworth
Judith Wordsworth
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26th January 2015
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No longer a PRS landlord, thankfully, having entered the business in around 1992 and out 2024.
Always self managed after letting agent found tenants. Mostly good tenants a few horrendous and only let to those on benefits after one initial professional shared AST to 2 young ladies.
Never joined the NRLA, but did obtain advice re one horrendous tenant from Pims.co.uk (best £79 ever spent).
Did a law degree (LLB Hons) in 2006 for something to do then an MSc in European Rural Development.
Saw the writing on the wall when the Renters Reform Bill rose it’s head and started the exit. Decision helped by one aforesaid horrendous tenant who was trashing the property, was abusive and was in arrears. This eviction included my threatening to take the Local Authority to court under their Selective Licensing Scheme unless they assisted. And assist they did in person, within 10 minutes, lol.
Read the Renters Reform and Rights Bills line by line- both ill thought out, badly drafted and with, possibly, unintended consequences. Had one to one meeting re the Reform Bill with the then Lord Chancellor.
Reply to comment left by DAMIEN RAFFERTY at 06/07/2026 - 11:50
Reply to the comment left by DAMIEN RAFFERTY at 06/07/2026 - 11:50It's a legal requirement that external doors, flat and HMO front doors and HMO bedroom doors which lock with a key must either have the internal side key hole...
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Reply to the comment left by Chris H at 06/07/2026 - 11:16Legal requirement for front doors of flats (owner-occupied and rentals), external doors for rented houses and HMOs since January 2023 (Fire Safety Regulations 2022). HMO bedrooms which lock with...
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Reply to the comment left by Chris H at 06/07/2026 - 11:14Money Claim Online. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/money-claim-online-user-guide/money-claim-online-mcol-user-guide https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money/make-claim
Read More →Reply to comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 06/07/2026 - 10:17
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 06/07/2026 - 10:17Actually it's not the landlords job to make sure the tenants have a general waste bin, 2 x food waste bins or recycling boxes. All down to the tenant(s)...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Richard Aylward at 06/07/2026 - 09:57
Reply to the comment left by Small Portfolio Landlord at 06/07/2026 - 09:57Please don't give this idiotic government any ideas re "a counselling service to help tenants who aren’t paying their rent and support them with money to take their...
Read More →6th July 2026, 1 week ago
If Shelter et Al hadn’t been at the forefront of the anti-landlord campaigns and pushing through the RRA there wouldn’t be a reducing supply of PRS properties. The RRA has resulted in less stability as now no guarantee of long...
Read More →6th July 2026, 1 week ago
Inform them they are in breach of a legal contractual agreement and you will be seeking legal redress which may result in their being denied entrance back to the UK in future. The deposit will be retained to cover any...
Read More →6th July 2026, 1 week ago
So not only unpaid, and untrained/unqualified, immigration officers and ASBO officers the government wants PRS landlords to be unpaid waste disposal bin men and women.
Read More →3rd July 2026, 2 weeks ago
Will be worth repeating this exercise again if, or when, Burnham the Dictator brings in his proposed property/land value tax and if he disallows it to be treated as an allowable expense against rental income or to be added to...
Read More →3rd July 2026, 2 weeks ago
Sadly the majority of PRS landlords have not bothered to read, never mind understand, the Act line by line, AND make notes. But then the same goes for all the legislation this business is governed by.
Read More →3rd July 2026, 2 weeks ago
Benefit by £9pa? How was this figure arrived at when they don’t know what they are going to charge landlords for mandatory registration on Labour’s publicly accessible Landlords Database and Ombudsman’s Scheme? Only 2 benefits to the RRA for PRS...
Read More →1st July 2026, 2 weeks ago
My Local Council, and many others, have been bulk buying in tents. Mine started in 2019. I did ask one of the Councillors in power whether this was anything to do with the 2018 Renters Reform Bill. He declined to...
Read More →29th June 2026, 2 weeks ago
Who drafted your Serviced Accommodation License agreement? Why did you not, when the guest failed to vacate, not remove their possessions and change the locks. I think you have been ill advised to seek a Possession Order from a court...
Read More →29th June 2026, 2 weeks ago
Not just in London or HMOs. I sold an ex-Council 2 bed leasehold property I had purchased, as a Right to Buy repossession, back to a Gloucestershire Local Authority under their Buy Back Scheme. They wanted vacant possession so the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Steve Roberts at 26/06/2026 - 09:31
Reply to the comment left by Suspicious Steve at 26/06/2026 - 09:31Most MPs have a legal background
Read More →27th June 2026, 2 weeks ago
If the majority of landlords charge less than market rent that becomes the new market rent. Landlords should all be charging the proper market rent for their property’s area to keep the market rent. The PRS is a business and...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Barry Fitzpatrick at 27/06/2026 - 08:36
The fines will be to fill empty or depleted coffers.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Laura Delow at 27/06/2026 - 07:39
Reply to the comment left by Laura Delow at 27/06/2026 - 07:39I saw the light in 2018 when the Renters Reform Bill rose it’s head. Suggested on here and other landlord forums/groups how I thought to make the then government...
Read More →23rd June 2026, 3 weeks ago
They've seen the press/media ramping up "you can get £1000s in compensation" taking your landlord for mould issues you caused yourself and chancing it. As long as you have photos, written report from your contractor, dates mould reported and rectified,...
Read More →22nd June 2026, 3 weeks ago
And have letting agents read the RRA line by line and importantly understood it? And more importantly have landlords AND have they understood that the buck will still always stop with them not the letting agent.
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