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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.

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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!

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

New tenancy agreement - out of season holiday let (useful for students) - see the tenancy agreements >> here (members only).

New content

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

New video content - the final video in the Rent Arrears Action Plan series, which is on County Court Judgements.

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New Q and A were loaded up over the weekend.

New video content - the new content for annual members (see further below)

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A new scam

The pre payment meter scam - tenants, watch out for men offering discounts at the door!

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A new scam

The pre payment meter scam - tenants, watch out for men offering discounts at the door!

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New Q and A were loaded up over the weekend.

We have a new feed for Property 118 news items added to our newsroom

New legal cases

Mew and Another -v- Tristmire Ltd - [2011] - old houseboats which are incapable of being moved still cannot be classed be the subject of a tenancy

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• New Q and A were loaded up over the weekend.
• A new index page for the Local Authority Directory (see below)
• A new tenancy agreement clause - a rent review clause

New suppliers page

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New Q&A answers are loaded up regularly.

We have put up two new renewal forms, one for 'common law' tenancies and one for company lets.  See the featured content below for more information.

Legal news

Welsh landlords and agents should note that the rent limit for ASTs goes up to £100K in Wales on 1 December (see here for the statutory instrument).  It went up for ASTs in England on 1 October 2010.