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Tenants legal help – checkin precautions

August 16, 2010 by Tessa J Shepperson

Tenants checkin meetings and inventories When you rent a property, you will often have a checkin or handover meeting before you move in. The landlord or agent will take you round and check the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips for tenants Tagged With: tenancy deposits

Tenants legal help – check the property before you sign the tenancy agreement

August 9, 2010 by Tessa J Shepperson

I advised a client recently who had an unusual problem. After signing the tenancy agreement for his rented property, he discovered there was a total stranger living in a studio flat above his garage! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips for tenants Tagged With: life's rich tapestry, rogue landlords

Tenants legal help – thinking of sharing with a friend?

August 2, 2010 by Tessa J Shepperson

Tenants sharing rented property Lots of people share rented property and often it works out. However sometimes it doesn’t. You need to be quite cautious about sharing a property with a friend, as if … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips for tenants Tagged With: sharing property

Tenants legal help – is that rent increase valid?

July 26, 2010 by Tessa J Shepperson

Tenants legal help As the value of money keeps going down and the cost of things keeps going up, your landlord is at some stage going to want to increase your rent. That’s understandable, but if you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips for tenants Tagged With: rent matters, unfair contract terms

Tenants legal help – how to protect yourself against rogue landlords

October 25, 2009 by Tessa J Shepperson

An interesting article in the Cash section of the Observer today looks at the increasing tendency of tenants to check up on their landlords before signing a tenancy agreement. And quite right too! As … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips for tenants Tagged With: rogue landlords

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The purpose of this blog is to provide information, comment and discussion.

Although Tessa, or guest bloggers, may from time to time, give helpful comments to readers' questions, these can only be based on the information given by the reader in his or her comment, which may not contain all material facts.

Any comments or suggestions provided by Tessa or any guest bloggers should not, therefore be relied upon as a substitute for legal advice from a qualified lawyer regarding any actual legal issue or dispute.

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