Tim Hall
Tim Hall
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20th December 2014
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Registered with Property118.com
20th December 2014
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4th April 2015, 11 years ago
In another article it was suggested that new prescribed information had to be issued and the deposit re-protected when there is a change of Tenant, Property, Deposit Scheme or Landlord. The first three make sense but the last does not...
Read More →27th January 2015, 11 years ago
Funds you take before the tenancy starts have to be dealt with carefully - if you call it rent then technically the tenancy starts the day you take the money. If the tenancy hasn't begun then the money is neither...
Read More →27th January 2015, 11 years ago
Michael - the address of the tenant is the property he lets. The legislation uses the word tenant, and as clearly they cannot be a tenant until the tenancy starts, the address of the tenant for the PI must be...
Read More →26th January 2015, 11 years ago
Romain I agree the protection procedure is triggered when the deposit is received, although as I have already said my own belief of the definition of "received" differs greatly from what seems to have been accepted. The regulations however only...
Read More →26th January 2015, 11 years ago
Romain - thanks, your point is noted. Has the argument been made in any hearing that the Tenant has the prescribed information from when the original deposit was received? The amended 2004 Act does not state the PI is required...
Read More →26th January 2015, 11 years ago
Whilst totally prepared to be shot down in flames by the legal minds on this forum, surely the Superstrike argument is not valid in this case. As far as I am aware the matter of re-serving prescribed information has not...
Read More →6th January 2015, 11 years ago
You can draw up a fixed term contract for 4 months and, asssuming it meets the other criteria (the main ones being it's let as a hole as the tenant's main home and not above £100,000 pa rent), it will...
Read More →6th January 2015, 11 years ago
It is not clear to me why you cannot serve section 21 notice - the stipulation is that the deposit must have been protected which it has, even if it has been protected late. Also you said that your electrician...
Read More →6th January 2015, 11 years ago
My understanding is that you can let a property on an Assured Shorthold Tenancy for less than 6 months but cannot serve section 21 notice to expire before the initial 6 months which could cause a problem if the tenants...
Read More →20th December 2014, 11 years ago
Just reading between the lines on this one, if the property was managed but you agreed between yourself and the tenant to handle it privately, was the Agent at all liable for protecting the deposit at the start of the...
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