Discussing how the Tenant Fees Act 2019 affects lodger agreements and the fees landlords can charge
The Tenant Fees Act and Lodger Landlords
News and comment
Problems when would be lodger landlords are tenants
More and more people are finding it harder and harder to manage financially. One solution, if you have a spare room in your house or flat, is to take in a lodger. There are a lot of good points about this: It will give you a bit of extra income It will provide a home […]
Lodger Landlords now need to carry out right to rent checks or risk a penalty
Lodger Landlords now need to carry out right to rent checks or risk a penalty charge. However you can now get a right to rent checklist from my Your Law Store site to help you.
Rent a room allowance increased to £7,500
There was good news for lodger landlords in the July 2015 budget as the Chancellor announced a ‘rent a room’ tax allowance increase from £4,250 to £7,500. This was long overdue and indeed Spareroom.co.uk had been campaigning for this for years. This came into force from April 2016. The increased tax allowance will make it […]
A new Monday to Friday lodger agreement
Lodgers don’t aways stay all week. Some lodger like to go back home at the weekends. This is good for them, as they pay a bit less, and good for the landlord, who gets the use of the room back at the weekends. Sometimes for their guests, sometimes to use for things like drying clothes, […]
New lodger packs now on sale in the shop
Are you about to look for a new lodger? If so, you may be interested in our New Lodger pack. The forms pack includes : a telephone enquiry form a lodger information / application form a set of letters you can use when requesting references (including employer, bank etc) our housing benefit letter of authority […]
Planning permission, HMOs and lodger landlords
In my 21 days of tips, I discussed whether taking in lodgers could create an HMO on day 7. However, since then the planning law has changed. If you take in more than two lodgers your property may need planning permission. The background to this change in the law, is the numerous complaints to MPs […]
Update on Raise the Roof campaign from Spareroom.co.uk
The nice people at Spareroom have kindly allowed me to post an update here from their excellent ‘raise the roof’ campaign to increase the rent a room tax exemption. Tessa. ********** Back in November 2009 we launched a campaign called Raise the Roof with the intention of asking the government to increase the tax free […]
Book review – The Essential Guide to Flatsharing by Rupert Hunt and Matt Hutchinson
This book is written by the owners of the popular SpareRoom.co.uk flatsharing web-site. It is addressed to ‘sharers,lodgers, and everyone renting out a room’, and is very much a companion book to their web site service. As the authors have been working in the field for such a long time (their London flatsharing site, intolondon.com […]
My book – The Quick Guide to Taking in a Lodger
As well as writing this web-site, I have also written a book on lodgers, published by Lawpack. Previously it was only available as a download from the Lawpack web-site, but excitingly, it has now been printed, so you can buy it in the shops or download it from Amazon. It is called The Quick Guide […]
