Renting to a registered charity?

If the charity is renting to provide housing for an employee then a company let agreement is fine.

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Thank you Robert & Romian for the feedback.
If the tenant ie the charity is not letting the rooms but providing them and not charging would the same HMO terms be applicable?
i assume that from your very helpful points Robert, that the compnay lease agreement could stipulate that should a HMO status prevail that they the charity would be responsible for the costs associated with conversion and I as the landlord would provide my permission. As you point out I do not want to pay these costs for a two year lease but would consdier it is they are prepared to undertake the work.

Reply to the comment left by “ellie warburg” at “26/09/2016 – 01:30“:

Hi Ellie

Why would the charity not charge for the letting of the rooms? Anyway, regardless of whether they charge or not, I believe that it would engage the HMO duties.

As for whether you can include some terms and conditions that make it the charity’s responsibility to carry out the HMO conversion works (and abide by the HMO regulations), my feeling is that you can certainly include such conditions and thus hold the charity contractually liable should they cause you loss due to defaulting on this, BUT your contractual terms and conditions may not override the legal responsibility of you as the owner. Thus, if the HMO regs are breached, the Council may sue you for that breach, but you may then be able to sue the charity for the contractual breach. – NOTE: I am not a solicitor, so I may be getting this wrong, this is just my personal understanding of the possible situation from the limited information available.

You also need to give some thought as to what happens at the end of the lease period, e.g. are you expecting the property back in the same condition as when it was let? If so, to what extent would this mean that all the HMO conversion would have to be removed? Also be aware that such a letting would create a much higher level of “wear and tear”, so do you fully understand and accept this, or would you be expecting the charity to replace items (e.g. carpets) and redecorate? It is very important that both you and the charity are clear as to each other’s expectations both during the lease and at the end of the lease.

hello again
a slight further complication in that the organisation is a CIC (company interest companies ) not a charity so I have now come to a grinding halt.They say that the houses would not be used in HMO terms .
Does anyone have knowledge of this ? my regular solicitor does not have the specifics I need for this .

As this discussion progresses it seems to me that perhaps you would do well to either find a ‘normal’ tenant, or get a knowledgeable solicitor fully involved and demand a significant premium over the market rent for a normal AST.

Reply to the comment left by “ellie warburg” at “26/09/2016 – 15:58“:

Hi Ellie

So the charity is not a charity,
you don’t know what they intend to do with the property if they rent it from you,
you don’t know what sort of agreement to use,
you don’t know what terms to put into an agreement,
you don’t know which party will be responsible for what,
your solicitor is not a specialist and has no idea what they are doing in relation to such a letting.
– I think Romain is right, you perhaps need to re-think your letting plans, perhaps find a normal tenant and let the property on a standard 6 month AST. It seems very risky letting it to the CIC when so much is unknown/uncertain and you you have no experience of what can go wrong with such a letting.

How do I begin to contact charities for my rental property.

Reply to the comment left by Bernsan at 28/09/2019 – 21:32
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