HMO Staggered move out dates would make repossession impossible?
Have I got this right?
Under the Renters Rights Bill, I’ll need to wait 12 months before I can serve an eviction notice (for four months hence).
BUT: I operate a six-bed HMO, with tenancies starting and ending at different times. I will almost never get a “clean” 12-month period in which no one has moved in or out. It could be years before I get full unoccupied possession.
Surely this isn’t the case? Please tell me I’ve got it wrong somewhere?
Would appreciate the forum’s view on my interpretation. (Feel free to vent, but most of all, I’m after input from someone who knows more about it than I)
Many thanks
St Jims
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Member Since September 2022 - Comments: 192
9:07 AM, 13th July 2025, About 9 months ago
Reply to the comment left by Walker at 12/07/2025 – 07:08
Sorry Walker but HMO tenants have a normal AST ( at the moment !)
How things will be once the RRB becomes law is still up in the air.
No One has yet come up with a New Assured Tenancy that All rental tenants are due to be on when RRB is the new housing law.
Member Since May 2022 - Comments: 2
11:17 PM, 13th July 2025, About 9 months ago
Reply to the comment left by St. Jims at 08/07/2025 – 21:20
This new renter bill also stipulates that tenancies are no longer determined in length but on a monthly rolling period, meaning all your tenants eventually will be rolling monthly. Surely that means that you won’t have them staggered?