If you are hoping to buy a template AST to use for your tenancy, you will find a lot of variation in price. A search on Google turns up a few free ASTs. Some high street letting agents charge several hundred pounds. If you are considering buying an AST, price is a poor indicator of quality. The OpenRent AST has been created in consultation with legal experts, and is informed by the knowledge we have gained through creating over , tenancies in the UK.
It protects the interests of both landlords and tenants, and is currently in force in tens of thousands of tenancies across the country. We will fill the tenancy agreement with your tenant and property details, and collect the signatures digitally. We offer an AST for whole properties, and also for individual rooms within a property with shared facilities. A regular Joint Tenancy AST names all tenants on the same agreement and no tenant has exclusive possession of any part of the property — they are all jointly liable for looking after the property and paying the rent.
It is the responsibility of either party to keep the agreement in a safe place as it will need to be referred to during the tenancy. The use of the model is entirely voluntary. There is no legal requirement to use it - although landlords and tenants will be able to do so with confidence. The Model Tenancy Agreement has been revised to encourage landlords to offer greater flexibility in their approach to pet ownership, and enable responsible pet owning tenants to find private landlords who will accept them.
The document has also been revised to reflect legislative changes made since the previous version was published. This article looks at the new rules and explains what they mean for landlords — and the result is not as clear cut as the minister would have everyone believe.
Free-to-use and drafted by government lawyers, the document is meant to provide an off-the-shelf solution for landlords renting out private homes. The agreement covers landlord and tenant obligations to each other; grounds for a landlord taking back a property and reasons a tenant can end the agreement early.
However, the crucial point explained within the agreement is landlords have no obligation to use the document. That means the terms are not legally binding on landlords using alternative tenancy agreements. The housing minister announced that landlords can no longer ban tenants from keeping pets out of hand. The Model Tenancy Agreement wording says pets are allowed by default if a tenant makes a written request to keep one.
Reasonable excuses would include a ban in smaller homes or flats where owning a pet might be impractical, said the minister. He also confirmed tenants would still have the responsibility of paying for repairs to any damage they may cause.
What the Model Tenancy Agreement says about keeping pets in a rented home is open to interpretation. The agreement does have space for adding terms and conditions for the keeping of pets but warns they must not be unfair as they would not be enforceable. Alongside tenancy agreements, landlords can create and download all of the various prescribed information forms required when letting out their rental property.
However, in practice, you really need one! Only a truly foolhardy landlord would let a property based on a verbal agreement, or a shake of hands. Letting out property is a serious business that requires the security of a written tenancy agreement. Not having one could be very costly for you. If a landlord needs to push forward with an enforcement of possession or any alteration in the tenancy terms, any required legal proceedings will become far more difficult and expensive without the foundation of a signed tenancy agreement to clarify the terms of the tenancy.
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