- Full Guide to Landlords' Legal Duties & Requirements
Summary of Checklist
Before You Find Your Tenant
- Get permission (Mortgagers/Freeholders)
- Housing Licensing Schemes
- EPC
- New rules from 2018 & 2020
- Gas Safety
- Electrical Installation Condition Report
- Portable Appliance Testing
- Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Alarms
- Fire Safety & Furniture
- Legionnaires’ Disease
After You Find Your Tenant
- Right to Rent
- Paying Tax on Rental Income
- Registering the Security Deposit
- Serve the Prescribed Information for the Security Deposit
- Draw up a Contract
- Serve Prescribed Information: the How to Rent Leaflet
- Inventory
You can order EPC, gas and electrical safety work via the OpenRent website
When the tenancy is set up, landlords need to provide prescribed information to the tenants and protect the deposit securely with a government-backed scheme. If you use our Rent Now service, we take care of this for you as well as providing the government 'How to rent' guide once the tenancy is signed.
Since February 2016, landlords are also now required to check all tenants have the right to rent in the UK.
- Full Guide to Landlords' Legal Duties & Requirements