- Your
Responsibilities
- The students
responsibilities
- Repossession
This section provides a
brief resume of your legal responsibilities as a landlord.
Links to more detailed information and references
for this page are detailed below
You are responsible
for...
- Keeping in repair the structure and exterior of
the property, including drains, gutters, and external
pipes.
- Keeping in repair and proper working order the
installations for the supply of water, gas, and electricity
and for sanitation (including basins, sinks, baths
and sanitary conveniences, and for heating rooms and
heating water)
- Providing a rent book if statute so requires (e.g.
where the rent is paid weekly)
- Providing the students with your full name and address.
- Providing them with a copy of the valid current
Gas Safety Certificate - www.corgi-gas.co.uk.
Please note that electrical certificates are not required
by law at this time, but are often required to be
part of a University or council accreditation scheme
and are recommended. NICEIC site (Electrical safety
standard organisation) www.niceic.org.uk
- Allowing the students to "peacefully enjoy"
their accommodation. Unless there is an emergency.
-
You should give prior warning of
at least 24 hours to the tenant when you wish to
enter the property to carry out legitimate maintenance
checks and repairs.
The
students are responsible for.........
- Acting in a "Tenant-like manner". This
means they should perform the smaller tasks around
the house such as mending the electric light when
it fuses, unblocking the sink when blocked with waste,
clean the windows when necessary.
- Not damaging the house, if they do then they and
their guests are responsible for the repairs.
- Refuse collection! They are responsible for putting
out the wheelie bin out (in areas where schemes exist)-
and to bring it back in again - it's illegal to leave
it on the street.
- Securing the property when they go away - i.e./
they must lock all doors and windows!
- Being reasonable about noise and parties
- Reporting all repairs needed to you (preferably
in writing). The landlord's responsibility to repair
begins only when you are aware of the disrepair. You,
as landlord, are responsible to take remedial action
within a reasonable period of time (dependant upon
the nature of the disrepair)
If you don't fulfil your obligations …
If you don't carry out repairs that are your responsibility
the student will probably contact their student's union,
accommodation department at the University or the Citizens
Advice Bureau. They will have a number of legal options
open to them .More
info
If they don't fulfil their obligations
If the students don't fulfil their obligations e.g.
paying rent, maintaining standings Citizens advice Bureau
or legal advice should be sought.More
info
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