Residential Lettings Kit

Do you want to let your flat, house or individual rooms in a property? Lettings to residential tenants can be a straightforward matter using this Lawpack Residential Lettings Kit.

It shows you how to create a legally binding tenancy agreement and includes background information on landlords’ and tenants’ obligations, rent control, gaining possession of your property and more.

This Kit includes the new Assured Shorthold Tenancies, valid from 6 April 2007, which comply with the introduction of the Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme in England & Wales. A Household Inventory is also part of this Kit, as well as notices to end the tenancy.

This Kit is for use in situations where the landlord is not resident at the property.

Approved by Tessa Shepperson, solicitor, under English law, and by Neill Clerk & Murray, solicitors, under Scottish law.

Includes a free Rent Book

Valid in England & Wales and Scotland.

Edition:	Sixth		Published	2007
Format:	Sealed Wallet		ISBN:	9781904053965
Code:	P209		Price:	£14.99

Compiled by Lawpack Legal Publishers in collaboration with external experts and/or organisations.

Instruction manual:

• Introduction
• Letting the whole or part of a property
• Consents before letting
• The Inventory
• Guarantors
• Terms in the tenancy agreement
• Witnesses
• The tenant's obligations
  - Repairing obligations
  - Outgoings
  - Use of the property
  - Access for the landlord
• The landlord's obligations
  - Repairing covenants
  - Gas safety
  - Furniture, electrical equipment and general product regulations
  - Covenant of quiet enjoyment
  - Insurance
  - The damage deposit
• Rent control
• Landlord's notices to end tenancies
• Eviction
• General information
• Template tenant’s bank standing order mandate
• Template letter to service provider regarding bills
• Glossary

Loose leaf forms included:

For England & Wales:
Assured Shorthold Tenancy agreement for England & Wales – 2 copies
Section 21 Notice Requiring Possession – 1 copy
Section 8 Notice Seeking Possession (rent arrears) – 1 copy

For Scotland:
Short Assured Tenancy agreement – 2 copies
AT5 Notice of Short Assured Tenancy – 1 copy
Notice to Terminate and Notice to Quit – 1 copy
AT6 Notice of Intention to Raise Proceedings for Possession (rent arrears) – 1 copy

For England & Wales and Scotland:
Household Inventory – 2 copies

Free rent book included
Required by law if rent is paid weekly
Includes prescribed notices for tenants
Line entries for recording rent due, dates, cash received, arrears and by whom the rent is received