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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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.
23rd June 2026, 1 day 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, 2 days 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.
Read More →22nd June 2026, 2 days ago
Couldn't have said it better. Shame most ridiculed me for saying that EVERY landlord should serve a s21 on every property on the same day with the same 3 month expiry date when the Renters Reform Bill rose its head,...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 20/06/2026 - 08:16
Just make sure you have enough money in the bank to pay for flea eradication in the property. It’s not a single treatment and if professionally carried is very very costly
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ryan Stevens at 12/06/2026 - 12:53
Reply to the comment left by Ryan Stevens at 12/06/2026 - 12:53Breaching statutory legislation cannot not be legal as strict liability offences. But we’re still waiting for Reeves to be prosecuted for her s95 Housing Act strict liability offence. Every...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ray Guselli at 12/06/2026 - 10:04
Reply to the comment left by Ray Guselli at 12/06/2026 - 10:04You face a £40k fine for not rectifying / removing EACH of the hazards
Read More →Reply to comment left by Roger Radford at 13/06/2026 - 09:03
Reply to the comment left by Roger Radford at 13/06/2026 - 09:03I’d be checking the block’s Fire Risk Assessment and buildings insurance as communal hallways, stairs and landings have to free and clear. That includes flammable materials.
Read More →13th June 2026, 2 weeks ago
I’m still doing annual SA paper returns. Hate IT and damn glad I’m now out of the PRS.
Read More →12th June 2026, 2 weeks ago
Plenty more unintended consequences – just have to read the Act line by line to see them. One of the most concerning is the publicly accessible Landlord Database requiring the Landlord's home address to be noted on the database. A...
Read More →12th June 2026, 2 weeks ago
I seem to remember saying well before this incompetent government published the RRA Information pdf sheet that it would likely be a badly drafted as the Bill and subsequent Act. I'd laugh but .................................
Read More →9th June 2026, 2 weeks ago
As all landlord and tenant legislation names the person providing rental accommodation as the "landlord" - the connotation of a landlady is that of a female publican or running a seaside or boarding house - if changed to something else...
Read More →9th June 2026, 2 weeks ago
How to Rent booklet has been withdrawn and does not need to be served, no similar document has been published by the government that landlords are required to serve.
Read More →6th June 2026, 3 weeks ago
And still Reeves hasn't been fined or prosecuted under s95 Housing Act for her failure to get a SL. Anyone fined or taken to court should be citing Reeves precident!
Read More →3rd June 2026, 3 weeks ago
I sold one of my rental properties back to the Council and they wanted the tenants out before completion. I, unlike Rayner, hadn't bought it under Right to Buy but from the lender of someone had done did and had...
Read More →30th May 2026, 4 weeks ago
A student HMO should be a tenancy for the room and a Licence for the communal parts. Then if a student gives notice as dropped out, been checked out or their course ends early the rest of the students are...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 29/05/2026 - 14:44
Reply to the comment left by Beaver at 14:44 "t...he majority of landlords may even now be blissfully unaware that a failure to send the Labour Renters Rights Act Information sheet to all named tenants by this Sunday (31st May)...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 27/05/2026 - 11:00
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 27/05/2026 - 11:00I really rally object to a landlords home address being published on the publicly accessible database. Not just a breach of Art 8 Human Rights Act, Art 8 ECHR...
Read More →29th May 2026, 4 weeks ago
And Ben Beadle fights the PRS landlords corner?
Read More →29th May 2026, 4 weeks ago
Why should a landlord be doing unpaid the job of the Police and the Local Authority? Many are doing the job of housing those that the LA cannot, or even will not. This is one of the straws that with...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Craig Ward at 27/05/2026 - 10:02
Reply to the comment left by Suicide Jockey at 27/05/2026 - 10:02The government stated that there would be no rogue tenant database as landlords would only put the names of rogue tenants on it. Surely that is the whole point!
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