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Not all tenancies are the same.  So it follows that not all tenancy agreements should be the same.

Tenancy agreements are after all the documents which govern how the tenancy is to work (outside of the things controlled by law).  The tenancy agreement you use should therefore reflect the type of tenancy involved.  Or you may be in difficulties.

For example, what if:

  •     you want to include a guarantor

  •     you want to rent out a room in a shared house

  •     you want a letting where the landlord pays all the bills

  •     you are renting to students who will pay holding fee over the summer

  •     you live in self contained accommodation in the same building as your tenants

  •     you want to rent to a tenant with a pet

All of these situations should be reflected in the tenancy agreement.  If you use a free ‘bog standard’ agreement which you downloaded from the internet, it is unlikely to cover any of these points.  

You can of course adapt the tenancy agreement yourself.  However you need to be careful doing this.  If you inadvertently breach the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (easily done) you may find that your clause is invalid.  It really is best to use a professionally drafted agreement.

At Landlord Law we have over 23 templates which can be used.  Members then create their own individual tenancy based on these, using our special document generator software.  The software will also allow you to add additional clauses which you can select from our extra clauses page.  Clauses available include:

  •     a break clause

  •     a rent review clause

  •     a clause allowing the landlords gardener access at certain times of the year

  •     a clause incorporating the landlords headlease into the tenancy


If the clause you want is not there, you can ask solicitor Tessa Shepperson in the members discussion forum and she will probably draft one up for you!

Worth checking out!  Find out more, by visiting the tenancy agreements information page.  Or watch our tenancy agreements information video.

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