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New tenancy deposit regulations come into force

Submitted by Tessa Shepperson on 10 April 2012 - 9:41am

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Rule Book April 6 is one of the two days in the year (the other being 1 October) when new regulations come into force. Here are the two main regulations which affect landlords.

Tenancy deposits

As all landlords and agents should now be aware, the tenancy deposit regulations have been tightened up to stop up the loopholes exposed by the cases of Tiensia and Hashemi.

New notification forms and a new eviction service

Submitted by Tessa Shepperson on 14 March 2012 - 10:46am

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Notification forms - these are handy forms you can use to record the meter readings at the time the tenant goes into the property and also the time he (or they) vacate.

The forms also confirm that you can inform the utilities, for example of the tenants forwarding address after they have vacated. They can save you a whole load of problems.

Deposit Guard compliant tenancy agreement and a new letting agent checklist for landlords

Submitted by Tessa Shepperson on 4 February 2012 - 12:08pm

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Deposit Guard compliant tenancy agreements

As many of you will have seen in the news, a new tenancy deposit scheme has been launched by the Residential Landlords Association partnered with TDS. The scheme is cheaper than My Deposits, but the landlord will need to have special clauses in the tenancy agreement.

School for Landlords videos and a new home page

Submitted by Tessa Shepperson on 17 January 2012 - 9:23am

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New Q and A are regularly loaded up to the site.

As you will probably have seen, we have a new home page design, and this blog is no longer featured there (although there are links). See more about the new home page below.

I have finally got around to doing a step by step guide to using the forum - for some reason people often get scared about using this - but now there is no excuse!