Five Top Tips for a Happy Tenancy from TDS

publication date: Jul 8, 2013

Five top tips for a happy tenancy for tenants, landlords and agents from the Tenancy Deposit Scheme.

House XXX Ben Beadle, Head of Member Relations at TDS, shares his 5 top tips to ensure that landlords & lettings agents are properly protected.

 

TDS has five top tips to ensure a happy tenancy experience for everyone.

  1. Landlords and letting agents need to ensure they keep to timescales for registering a deposit from the tenant - it has to be submitted within 30 days of receiving the deposit.

  2. Landlords and letting agents must give tenants the full information on their deposit, this is usually a leaflet - it's a finable offence not to do so.

  3. It's vital to have a watertight tenancy agreement that is straightforward and clear to the tenant.

  4. Best practice is to have a check in inventory, making it as detailed as possible and ask the tenant to sign it. There are advantages to the tenant for doing this and a quick explanation should make it clear.

  5. Have an audit trail so if there is a dispute you have full and detailed evidence of all actions and intstructions.

TDS XXX This is a guest article from the Tenancy Deposit Scheme 

 

For more advice on tenancy desposit schemes read TDS 

Tenancy Deposit Scheme Checklist.

 



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