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Letting update
Selected extracts from the UK’s most respected legal
and technical guide for letting agents and landlords
One of the best sources for
in-depth information on the
LUJ SUBScriBerS’
legalities of residential lettings
is Letting Update Journal, a
QUeStionS and anSwerS
professional specialist lettings Presented here are a number of questions that have been
publication for those who brought to Letting Update by subscribers.
need to know the detail on We regret that we are generally unable to give individual replies
court cases, legislation and to questions.
current professional practice. In most cases, we shall wish to research and check the material,
Published quarterly by The Letting Centre and mailed directly and publish the results for the benefit of all LUJ subscribers.
to subscribers only, each issue includes:
SecUrity concernS after Signing
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Legal Briefings tenancy agreement
Articles on letting procedures and landlord tenant law. A tenant who recently took up a tenancy in one of my properties
has said that he no longer wants to live there. He was really
•
Case Studies concerned during the viewing about whether there had been any
An analysis of difficult situations and their outcomes. burglaries in the area. We were not aware of any and we
contacted the last tenants to find out whether they knew
•
Tax Issues anything. Their reply was negative and we told the prospective
A series of articles on letting and tax. new tenant this and he duly signed up to the tenancy. Having
talked to a number of people in the area he has found out that
•
Special Features there have been a number of burglaries nearby and he wants to
Regular features of topical interest to practitioners. move out of the property as he does not feel safe. Can he
terminate the tenancy agreement?
PROPERTYdrum has partnered with Letting Update Journal The simple answer to this is that he is bound by the tenancy
and The Letting Centre to offer our readers a unique agreement that he signed. The old legal principle ‘caveat emptor’
opportunity to subscribe to this specialist journal at a very or ‘let the buyer beware’ will apply here.
special price. Further details of this offer appear on the page A prospective tenant has to determine beforehand whether
following this feature and you can take advantage of this by they want to commit themselves to a legally binding agreement.
logging onto our website
www.propertydrum.com/subscribe. You as agent told him what you knew. However, there is little you
The Letting Centre also offers a comprehensive range of can do in practice if he wants to leave. He will need to be made
specialist products for letting agents including possession packs, aware that he’s still liable for paying the rent, as agreed in the
forms, agreements, fact sheets, which you can download tenancy agreement, until a new tenant is found. He can also be
individually and the Letting Handbook. held responsible for the costs of finding a new tenant.
To appreciate the level of information presented to subscribers
in Letting Update, we have reproduced a Questions and ‘StoLen’ rent paymentS
Answers section from the last issue, April 2009. One of my oldest tenants is 93 and she has lived in this particular
We’re presenting the information in the same format as it property for as long as anyone can remember. She pays her rent
appears in Letting Update Journal, which is a printed quarterly on the quarter days. The tenant missed one payment which was,
which you can collect in a binder available from The Letting according to her daughter, a result of a problem with housing
Centre. Collected, it will form a unique and essential reference benefit payments. Since she always paid on time we let it pass
resource for your business. but when she missed another quarter I called round. She said
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