Tenancy Agreements Should be Longer says Letting Focus
The typical assured shorthold tenancy is for 6 months. Yet many tenants - especially those with families- would rightly like longer agreements where they may have more security.
Lots of landlords would also be happy to give longer agreements to their good tenants because they don’t want the added workload and cost that comes with constantly changing tenants.
The wider community too would, no doubt, like to see good tenants staying for longer, thus giving some permanence to local communities.
So, perhaps the law should be reviewed.
I suggest making a 2 year tenancy a natural tenancy default option -with landlords free to choose shorter tenancies if they wished.
However, to be fair to landlords, longer tenancies must come with better safeguards enabling landlords to evict troublesome tenants far more easily and quickly than is the case today.
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Lots of landlords would also be happy to give longer agreements to their good tenants because they don’t want the added workload and cost that comes with constantly changing tenants.
The wider community too would, no doubt, like to see good tenants staying for longer, thus giving some permanence to local communities.
So, perhaps the law should be reviewed.
I suggest making a 2 year tenancy a natural tenancy default option -with landlords free to choose shorter tenancies if they wished.
However, to be fair to landlords, longer tenancies must come with better safeguards enabling landlords to evict troublesome tenants far more easily and quickly than is the case today.
ABOUT LETTINGFOCUS
We are LettingFocus.com - the buying to let experts and I’m David Lawrenson, the author of “Successful Property Letting” - the UK’s top selling property and buy to let book for the last 3 years.
I have been a landlord and property investor myself for over 25 years.
We offer independent unbiased seminars for UK property investors and landlords as well as one to one advice covering all aspects of being a landlord and investing in property.
As we are not linked to a property company, developer, estate agency or bridging loan provider, we can give unbiased independent advice on where to buy (which areas), what type of property to buy, when to buy and how to buy property at a low price. I can also explain how to reduce the risk of getting a bad tenant.
We don't show you risky scam ways to make money in property.
Instead, we show you and guide you through proven ways to make money through buying and letting property - and in an ethical way.
CHECK OUT THESE PAGES AT OUR SITE LETTINGFOCUS.COM:
For our NEXT SEMINAR AND NETWORKING EVENT for Landlords and Property Investors click here: Next Property Investing Seminar and Networking Event
We have GREAT OFFERS for landlords too, Click here: Services and Products for Landlords to see our Landlords Resources (Useful Links) page. (Selling services to landlords and property investors and have a national coverage? You could be a partner, please get in touch!)
For general info on our SEMINARS AND CONSULTING click here: Property Seminars, Networking Evenings and Consulting
ONE TO ONE CONSULTING click here: Property Consulting
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS from past customers click here: Testimonials
BUY THE BOOK click here: Buy the Book at Amazon
THE HOME PAGE OF THIS BLOG click here: Blog
THE HOME PAGE OF OUR MAIN SITE click here: LettingFocus Home Page
To JOIN our Free QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER simply send an email to david@LettingFocus.com - Please note we WILL NOT send spam or sell our mailing list to advertisers!
IF YOU HAVE A SITE WHY NOT LINK TO THIS BLOG OR OUR WEBSITE?
TO VIEW RELATED POSTS select a “Category” at the bottom of this page.
WANT TO ADD A COMMENT OR VIEW OLD COMMENTS?
To add a comment to this post, simply click on “link to this post” to add your comment and to view comments of other people.
Good article on Landlords Insurance:
http://www.lettingfocus.com/pages/myarticles_Insurance.html
Copyright: David Lawrenson 2007. This blog is updated once a week
To read archived blogs select a date from the list at the right. To read recent ones, just page down.
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Friday, September 07, 2007.
