Renters’ Rights Act enforcement split into breaches and offences
Author: Judith Wordsworth
1st April 2026, 2 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.
3rd June 2026, 1 day 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, 5 days 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, 6 days ago
And Ben Beadle fights the PRS landlords corner?
Read More →29th May 2026, 6 days 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!
Read More →Reply to comment left by JB at 20/05/2026 - 11:16
Reply to the comment left by JB at 11:16 You'll get told "it's against their human rights" to tell them they cannot afford a pet
Read More →23rd May 2026, 2 weeks ago
"... immediate fines starting at £7,000 for paperwork discrepancies, escalating to a ruinous £40,000 for more complex compliance failures...." What is even more alarming is that these fines are compounded ie could be fined £7 for one thing eg not...
Read More →23rd May 2026, 2 weeks ago
Pay off as much as £20 on 3 months arears? I'm surprised Shelter is asking for that much. £1 has the same effect. Don't bother with s8 every 3 months bang in a MCOL. every 2 months. Court fee is...
Read More →22nd May 2026, 2 weeks ago
A massive mistake. Has the TLIC not seen the lack of fighting the landlords corner by the NRLA?
Read More →22nd May 2026, 2 weeks ago
It is not just small landlords, small in portfolio not stature ;) , that have/are/will be selling up and getting out of the PRS. But government and anti-landlord/tenant action groups etc reap what they sow. Absolutely conned tenants to vote...
Read More →22nd May 2026, 2 weeks ago
If a leaseholders cat/dog/pet introduces fleas to the communal areas and to other residents flats who will be responsible for eradicating the infestation? Actually similar if Leaseholders cannot reasonably refuse pets. It cost £1000s including having to hire a freezer...
Read More →21st May 2026, 2 weeks ago
Commonhold is not all it or the government cracks it up to be. Where a Leasehold flats are owned as the joint freeholders of a building the "management" can use a s20 opt -out agreement to raise/bill leaseholders (ie the...
Read More →21st May 2026, 2 weeks ago
It has always been the problem with arrears using s8. Only need to pay £1 less than the old 2 months, now 3 months, and the LL has to wait until more than once again. So in the "old" days...
Read More →20th May 2026, 2 weeks ago
For me, and others, the writing was on the wall for long term landlords with portfolios not in Ltd’s, and not cost effective to now do it, or with less than say 20 properties or whose children wanted nothing to...
Read More →20th May 2026, 2 weeks ago
The sell off for many of us started when the Renters Reform Bill rose it’s head in 2018.
Read More →20th May 2026, 2 weeks ago
As you are the freeholder your headlease should marry the leases to prohibit pets. Plenty of reasonable reasons include Other flats residents have allergies to pets The cleaners of the communal areas may have allergies to pets The flat is...
Read More →Reply to comment left by david porter at 20/05/2026 - 10:04
Reply to the comment left by david porter at 20/05/2026 - 10:04Ignorance is not a defence in law. Ignorance of legislation in the PRS in the case of Reeves, and property and tax legislation in the case of Rayner should...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Dr David Price at 20/05/2026 - 09:33
“Errors”? Reeves committed a s95 Housing Act strict liability offence. Still not prosecuted.
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