The creators of a new app claim that it will refuse to build a possession case if the paperwork behind it would fail in court under the provisions of the Renters Rights Act .
The only exception is the two anti-social-behaviour grounds, which the Act exempts from the deposit rule, and the app says so.
The ComplyWithMe app comes from Steleo Publishing and is being priced from £119 a year per property, with precise costs dependent on the user’s portfolio size.
Providing there is appropriate paperwork to proceed, the app takes the landlord through one of 12 scenarios, such as a tenant in three months of arrears, the need to selling the property, or the tenant exhibiting anti-social behaviour.
It then moves on to the statutory grounds behind it, and it informs the user whether the court must or may grant possession.
It also computes the notice period and earliest court date.
At hearing stage, it electronically hands the paperwork over to another service provided by the same company.
Stevie Hayes, founder of Steleo Publishing, says: “Before [the Renters Rights Act] a missing document was admin. Now the paperwork is the case, and almost nobody’s spreadsheet has caught up with that.”
“Since [the Act] the paperwork is the case, and the paperwork is made on a phone,”
The app covers England only.
