Welcome to Home Relief Bulletin Board
Monday 27 May 2019
by the Property Team
Post No. 90
Mis-renting
How to address wrong or the lack of rental information
This week, we are dealing with information that home seekers need to know before they agree to sign up a tenancy agreement. This week’s activity is the continuation of appended and punitive terms from our last week.
It is necessary that home seekers do their own research before renting a property. It is equally fair that the other party (or their representative) in the agreement provides prescribed required information (e.g. information related to the new Section 21 form if an assured shorthold tenancy agreement will be used) before home applicants sign up an agreement. There are statutory and non-statutory information that both parties should be aware of.
For example, the law requires to the landlord to provide to their incoming tenants an up to date version of the ‘How to rent’ booklet. Landlords/ladies are also required to provide a new copy at the outset of any subsequent tenancy, including statutory periodic tenancies, but only if there has been an update to the booklet. If they do not then no valid Section 21 can be served.
This week’s activity, which is for the home seekers, will help them in the following ways:
√ Understand what they are agreeing on
√ Avoid mis-rental information and misinformation
√ Understand the terms and conditions of their current and future tenancy agreements
√ Beware of fair and unfair terms and take action on unfair terms
√ Know their consumer protection rights
√ Uncovering mis-renting terms
Etc.
The overall goal of this week’s activity is to protect home seekers from unfair terms and mis-rental information. To achieve this central goal, the week’s session has the following objectives:
√ Ensure clarity and fairness for both contractual parties, especially but not exclusively for the vulnerable and misinformed home seekers
√ Avoid rental poverty trap in a tenancy that one party has never understood its implications from the beginning, yet they signed it
√ Source out ways of getting out from unknowingly agreed unfair terms
√ Ways of dealing with the issue of financial payments related to unfair terms
Briefly, addressing the wrong rental information or lack of fair rental information
You can work with Home Relief on fair rental information as Help to Rent is available to all home seekers.
Need help to address mis-rental information, work with Home Relief.
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