I want my tenancy to remain periodic but …

Reply to the comment left by "Laura Delow" at "17/04/2014 - 17:38":

Oh yes please Laura my email address is Michross1984@hotmail.co.uk. Thank you ever so much 🙂

Reply to the comment left by "Industry Observer " at "17/04/2014 - 18:48":

Thanks for your note IO. I give them the certificate, with their prescribed information on the back and then the Information for Tenants leaflet that they also issue. Isn't that enough? It is all from mydeposits and nothing extra so now I am worried!! What else is there?

Reply to the comment left by "Gilly " at "17/04/2014 - 23:35":

Hi Gilly. My understanding is exactly the same as yours with the only difference, I send the PI on a separate sheet vs the back of the certificate so's it stands out. Plus 2 copies of the certificate duly signed by us as the landlord with a covering letter (of which I keep a copy) explaining a summary of the enclosures & for the tenant to sign both certificate copies & return one copy in the stamped addressed envelope provided. This letter plus content is first posted by ordinary post & followed up by my agent by phone if I don't receive back a signed copy (which simultaneously confirms safe receipt by the tenant.. Returning a signed copy of the certificate isn't a pre-requisite to my understanding, but best practice & if the tenant is lacking in returning a signed copy, I at least have the covering letter as evidence it was delivered (& a file note of the follow up phone call). In that way the tenant can't prove ignorant having not received it.

HI Michelle. Have just emailed you a copy of all comments on a word doc. Let me know if it doesn't come through or you can't open it. As said in my email, I would attach a copy of this document with your resume for agents & potential landlords to see how committed you are in paying your rent on time & with the help of your father, maintaining your tenancy property to a good standard of repair. Any landlord should be delighted to get a tenant such as this. Good luck, Laura

Morning ok thank you i will check emails, i am keeping it in a good state, well trying ive got paint to freshen it up but carnt do that yet as the walls are wet, but hopfull with all this information i can get it sorted 🙂 and thanks you once again.

Meaagage to Michelle from my holiday in Egypt. Further advice, go to your local newspaper with your story and make sure you mention the things you have in your favour as discussed in this thread. I reckon you could have landlords falling over themselves to let their properties to you and avoid agent fees. Please direct them all to this thread when they make contact.
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Gilly

The PI is always best as a separate document, even if 'separate' within the tenancy agreement. Never let it get tangled up with anything else that a Scheme simply wants you to issue on their behalf.

Statute demands the PI - always obey Statute first

Michelle

Be EXTREMELY careful about going to the local press unless 110% absolutely certain of your facts. Malicious falsehood is easy to commit, and from there it is only a short step to the much more serious charge of libel, especially when dealing with a business with deeper pockets than your own.

Reply to the comment left by "Industry Observer " at "18/04/2014 - 10:04":

Thanks Laura and IO.

(Sorry if this is off the point Michelle.)

Thanks, that's a good point about keeping the information on a separate piece of paper rather than printing double sided - I suppose court cases have hinged on stranger things than that! At least the documentation reduced recently from 8 sides of A4 x 2 (plus a folder full of stuff that I always provide) to just the 4 x 2.

Yes I do two copies and get the proof, as I normally make sure the deposit is paid just before the moving in date, so that I arrive on the day complete with the certificates etc in person, which we both then sign. (I have often sent it all by email in advance as well). Otherwise I return asap - but always in person. (I like making work for myself).

Still worrying though, as I have just noticed on the RLA website that this is not deemed to be sufficient. They produce an excellent form (with a further umpteen pages) which gets the "contact address" actually signed/verified (I'm learning IO 🙂 and specifies a list of items for which deductions from the deposit can be used. I normally just have the contact address on an informal "details form" which they fill in for me. I think much of this is covered in the NLA AST agreement which I use, but I may start to add it to the mass of stuff that tenants rush me through, when they just want to get on with unpacking..... to be on the safe side, wherever that may be.

Hi Mark, enjoy your holiday you lucky so and so :/ but as for the paper id rather not have my personal business in my local paper :/ as much as i dont have anything to hide and done everything ive said on here, id still rather not but thank you.
Gill no worries hope it helps you too.
All i would like its a place to call home and feel like home with no damp/ gail force winds coming through windows, neighbours above and next door at it or arguing and stopming around but hey ho im looking everyday 🙁 fingers crossed

Hi all again sorry to be a pain, im just doing my folder up incase i find somewhere, Looking at my Tenacy Deposit Certif, the 1st one i got when i signed up it say between the land **** ****** and the tenant me, Beginning on the 5th April 2012 and ending on or after the 5th October 2012!!
On the one they have just sent me the only differences is they have changed the ending date to: Ending on or after "periodic". So im confusing myself that just means the same as before then when i give my month's notice and they issue me with a month's notice????? am i getting that bit right please?? Thanks