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How Landlord-Law can help Tenants
Are you renting, or about to rent, your home? Would you like to know more about your rights and obligations? Landlord Law, from solicitor Tessa Sheppereson, is an authorative source of information. For example, about:
- Choosing and finding a property
- The legal implications of signing a tenancy with another person
- Using letting agents
- The process of signing up for a property and the paperwork involved
- The schemes for protecting your damage deposit
- Whether your landlord is entitled to increase your rent
- What you can do if your property is in disrepair
- Your rights if your landlord is trying to evict you, and what you can do
All of these and more are covered in our tenants information sections. The information has been divided up into six main sections. The first two are for new tenants and for tenants about to sign up to a property. The next three look at your rights during the tenancy and the various problems that may arise. The final section looks at complaining and obtaining further advice, together with an item on discrimination.
However once you have followed one of these links, you can then access all the others easily via an orange members only 'banner index' in the left margin.
The tenants section is a bit like the TARDIS - it is much bigger on the inside ...
There is actually much more informtion available than you would think from just looking at the links. For example, the 'condition of your property/disrepair' link leads to a huge interlinked section with pages on different aspects of the law relating to disrepair, with guidance on waht to do. In the eviction problems section the items on possession notices and possession proceedings are also very long and give a lot of help and guidance.
You can access all this information for just £4.00 for three days!
If you want a longer period of access you can join for one month for £20. This is similar to daily membership, plus you can ask questions in the online forum areaFollow this link to find out more about the forum. Or you can join as an annual member for £80.00.
Petra Hirsch, Tenant: "I won my claim at the Small Claims Court against my former Landlord and she had to return the full deposit and pay for the costs. Thanks for the advice, otherwise I would probably not have had the courage to go ahead and sue her."
Annual membership
This will allow you access to the following additional features:
- You can download forms, such as the notices used to challenge rent increases and refer them to the Rent Assessment Panel for review
- If your landlord has not protected your damage deposit as he should, or (if your deposit is not one which need to be protected) if he has not returned the deposit money to you, you can use our online kit 2The link goes to the main kits page, you will need to scroll down. Non members can also purchase the kit for £57.50
- You can use the cases databaseThis enables you to read reported cases on the internet. You can read about the service via this link
- You can instruct Tessa to do a written (email) advice for a fixed fee of £85
- Annual and monthly members will also be automatically subscribed to our monthly e-newsletterYou can also sign up to this as a non member via this link
Landlord-Law is written and run by Tessa SheppersonClick here to read about Tessa and the Landlord-Law service, a solicitor specialising in this area of law.
Tenant, Vanessa, London - "Because of the legal advice I received from Landlord-Law, I was able to get out of a lease 3 months earlier than anticipated and, I am actually paying half the rent I used to."
But before you make up your mind:-
Take a look at some of the free content on the site:
- See the Questions and Answers section where you can read Tessa's ten most recent answers to questions emailed to her by readers (Landlord-Law members can also access all the past Q&A on the site which go back years)
- Look into the future by visiting the Law Reform section
- Read about landlord and tenant related books and products in the Reviews section
- Find out what services are offered by your Local Authority with our Local Authority Directory
- Read Tessa's Tips for Tenants on various topics
You will find a (more or less) complete list of free content here.
Click here to see comments from some of our members on how we have helped them!
Michael Chan, tenant: "As an eCommerce consultant, I must say I am impressed by your service, materials on the site are extremely useful, forum threads were responded within a business day, and very good user journey throughout the site."
If you would like to join
You can join as one of the following:
- A daily member for £4.00
- A monthly member for £20.00
- An annual member for £80.80
Note - all information applies to the law in England and Wales only
We cannot help, for example, with rented property in the United States of America or Australia. Neither can we assist regarding property in Scotland and Northern Ireland in the UK as they have different legal systems. Click here for more information for Scottish Tenants.