Life after

Deregulation in October 2015 must feel like walking on bananas, your bound to slip up at sometime!

That should not be the case, after all most landlords are savvy and know what they are doing.
So much changed with deregulation and its hard to keep track with what is mandatory against advisory or best practise. Here at Creative Green Energy we have kept our eye on the ball and through these blogs we hope to inform you and encourage you as landlord to know for yourselves the best ways to manage your properties and avoid unnecessary fines and being in a contentious situation with your tenant because of not following all the rules that now apply since deregulation.

In this blog we are going to look at retaliatory evictions, as assessors and contractors I have visited many properties and it is clear that there are as many ‘bad’ tenants out there as there are ‘bad’ landlords, but we realise that it is now easier to appear to be a bad landlord because the situation became slanted in favour of tenants with de-regulation. You have to read the http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/20/section/33/enacted, which is about Preventing retaliatory eviction, it is considered that when a tenant requests a repair then a neglectful landlord instead of setting about effecting a repair might give the tenant notice. Under the current rules there are quite specific requirements that a landlord should work to, see the attached link for advice to tenants provided by the National Homelessness Advice Service NHAS: http://www.nhas.org.uk/factsheets. If a landlord fails to carry out repairs in a timely fashion to absolute completion, then it could be considered harassment and compensation could be owed to a tenant following issues of disrepair, landlords could be barred from evicting a tenant under these circumstances for six months.

CGE top tips to landlords are:

1/ Know what all the requirements are, all the ‘prescribed’ documents that need to be given to your tenant and when

2/ Keep really good records, get your tenant to sign to confirm receipt of all instructions and certificates

3/ Do all the checks required that take care of your duty of care to your tenant

4/ Use a professional company to help you with your requirements such as Creative Green Energy so that your checks are being completed professionally and impartially.

Call us at Creative Green Energy for your EPC, Floor Plans, Legionella risk assessment, Gas Safe/Electrical Checks and Inventory.