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Shared Properties & HMOs

What are the penalties for not obtaining an HMO license?

Penalty
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Filed Under: Post Renters Rights Act, Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: Banning orders, England only, HMO Licensing, HMO Rules, rent repayment order, RRA-Shared-Properties-HMOs-Topic

What should landlords do if lodgers or household members stay on after the tenants have left?

houses
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Filed Under: Ending Tenancies, Post Renters Rights Act, Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: Household members, Lodgers, permitted occupiers, RRA-ending-tenancies-topic, RRA-Shared-Properties-HMOs-Topic

What are landlords legal obligations regarding fire doors?

Fire
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs, The Property Condition Tagged With: Fire safety

Why is the Local Authority asking me to do the Electoral Roll for my HMO?

The Rule Book
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Rules, Renters Rights Act Checked

What is a lodger?

Lodgers
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: Household members, Lodgers

My tenant has asked permission for someone else to live at the property – should I permit this?

Forbid or allow?
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: England only, Household members, Lodgers

What is the legal status of a ‘household member’ on the Landlord Law tenancy agreements?

Team
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Filed Under: Consumer Law, Shared Properties & HMOs, Tenancy Agreements Tagged With: England only, Household members, permitted occupiers, Tenancy Agreement Clauses

Changing contract holders in Welsh Occupation Contracts

Reading a notice
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs, Wales Tagged With: Wales ending tenancies topic, Wales Notices to end contract, Wales only, wales shared properties hmo topic

What is Council Tax Disaggregation

tenancy deposit
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Filed Under: Checks and Payments, Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: Council tax, hmo

What is Overcrowding?

overcrowding, HMO
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: Overcrowding

Gill & Gill v Greenwich RLBC [2022]

County court
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: rent repayment order

Aytan v Moore [2022]

County court
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: rent repayment order

What are the HMO licensing rules for self contained flats?

Flats
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Licensing, HMO Rules, Renters Rights Act Checked

D’Costa v D’Andrea & Ors [2021]

County court
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Licensing, rent repayment order

Is assignment of a tenancy when the tenants change a good idea?

Signature
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Filed Under: Ending Tenancies, Occupation Types, Shared Properties & HMOs, Tenancy Agreements Tagged With: assignment, England only

Vadamalayan v Stewart & others [2020]

County court
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Licensing, rent repayment order

Rakusen v Jepsen [2023]

The Supreme Court
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Filed Under: Checks and Payments, Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Licensing, rent repayment order, rent to rent

What is selective licensing?

HMO Application
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: England only, HMO Licensing, Renters Rights Act Checked

What records do I need to keep?

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Filed Under: Checks and Payments, Consumer Law, Court Proceedings, Ending Tenancies, General, Shared Properties & HMOs, Tenancy Agreements, Tenancy Deposits, The Property Condition Tagged With: General Legal, record keeping, records

What should I do if my tenants are a couple who have split up?

arguing couple
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Filed Under: Ending Tenancies, Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: Changing tenants

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Coronavirus help
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Filed Under: Court Proceedings, Ending Tenancies, Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: Coronavirus

Waltham Forest LB v. Khan [2017]

County court
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Licensing

How do I work out how many households are in my property?

Why?
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Rules

What are the differences between joint and several tenancies and renting individual rooms in a shared house?

What is the difference?
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Filed Under: Occupation Types, Shared Properties & HMOs, Tenancy Agreements Tagged With: Council tax, England only, Joint tenants, RRA-Occupation-Types-Topic, RRA-Shared-Properties-HMOs-Topic, shared property comparision faq, Tenancy Agreements

Lodgers in rented properties

Lodgers
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs, Tenancy Agreements Tagged With: Lodgers, Renters Rights Act Checked, Subletting

Do I need to get a license for my HMO? Wales

HMO Application
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Licensing, HMO Rules, old Wales, Wales only

What are the HMO Minimum Bedroom Sizes

Measuring rooms
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: eng, HMO Licensing

How should I deal with payment of bills in shared houses?

shared bills
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: Bills, Council tax, payments

Legal Cases – Shared Properties & HMOs

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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: Index page

FAQ – Shared Properties & HMOs

FAQ
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Filed Under: Index Page, Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: Index page

Is there a register of HMO licenses?

Register
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Rules

Why are HMO lettings different from other lettings?

Why?
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Rules, Renters Rights Act Checked

What should I do if I let or are going to let properties in an HMO?

Phone call
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Rules, planning, Preliminary matters, Renters Rights Act Checked

What is an HMO (House in Multiple Occupation)?

HMO
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Licensing, HMO Rules, Renters Rights Act Checked

What is a temporary exemption notice (TEN)?

Cartoons by Wil
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Rules, Renters Rights Act Checked

What are the landlords extra responsibilities with HMO properties?

Recycle rubbish
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Rules, Renters Rights Act Checked

What are the Heat Network Regulations and how do they apply to HMOs?

Regulations
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: heat network regulations, HMO Rules, Renters Rights Act Checked, Utility Regulations

What are the criteria for granting an HMO license?

Large HMO houses
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Licensing, HMO Rules, Renters Rights Act Checked

What are the amenity standards for HMOs?

Wash hand basin
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What are the special HMO rules for converted flats?

Flats
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Rules, Renters Rights Act Checked, Review post RRA commencement

Do I need to get a license for my HMO?

HMO Application
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: England only, HMO Licensing, HMO Rules, Renters Rights Act Checked

Are the HMO licensing rules the same everywhere in the country?

HMO House
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: HMO Licensing, Renters Rights Act Checked

Goremsandu, Regina (on The Application of) -v- London Borough of Harrow – [2010]

High Court
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Filed Under: Shared Properties & HMOs Tagged With: Council tax, Goremsandu, HMO Rules

What is joint and several liability?

Joint and several tenants
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Filed Under: Occupation Types, Shared Properties & HMOs, Tenancy Agreements Tagged With: Definition, Joint tenants

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