{"id":235,"date":"2019-05-27T17:50:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T16:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/?p=235"},"modified":"2019-05-27T17:50:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T16:50:21","slug":"tenant-fees-bill-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/tenant-fees-bill-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenant Fees Bill 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Tenant Fees Bill Legislation from 1st June 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tenants cannot be charged for referencing costs<br \/>\n\u2022 Tenants cannot be charged for any tenancy agreements<br \/>\n\u2022 Tenants cannot be charged for part costs of inventories or check-in\/outs<br \/>\n\u2022 Security deposits will be capped at 5 weeks\u2019 rent (or 6 weeks\u2019 rent for annual rents over \u00a350,000)<br \/>\n\u2022 Tenants can be charged for early termination of tenancy agreements \u2013 reasonable landlord costs for re-letting and rent up until a new tenant moves in (up to a total maximum of the rent outstanding for the tenancy term)<br \/>\n\u2022 Tenants can be charged for variation of contract cost at the tenants request \u2013 expected to be capped at \u00a350 inc vat, unless reasonable costs above the amount can be proven<br \/>\n\u2022 Tenants can be charged interest on late payments of rent over 14 days in arrears of 3% above BOE base rate<br \/>\n\u2022 Tenants can be charged for breach of tenancy terms &#8211; *breach of tenancy charges may be by way of deduction from the deposit at the end of the tenancy)<br \/>\n\u2022 Tenants can be charged for negligence \u2013 i.e. cost of unblocking toilets by putting nappies down them (though this may be by way of a deduction from the deposit at the end of the tenancy)<br \/>\n\u2022 Tenants can be charged for not returning the property back to the standard it was let (fair wear and tear excepted) through normal end of tenancy deposit process<br \/>\n\u2022 Tenants can be charged for losing keys or security devices (at reasonable cost)<\/p>\n<p>Existing Tenancies from 1st June 2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Upon renewal existing tenants will need to be refunded any security deposit held over 5 weeks of the \u2018new rent\u2019<br \/>\n\u2022 Tenants cannot be charged additional security deposit levies for having pets and must be refunded additional levies over the 5 weeks\u2019 upon contract renewal<br \/>\n\u2022 Existing tenancies which do not renew but become periodic tenancies (rolling on monthly) can keep the existing lodgement of security deposits without any need to refund until a contract renewal takes place \u2013 we therefore recommend that all existing tenancies with pets should not renew but should become periodic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenant Fees Bill Legislation from 1st June 2019 \u2022 Tenants cannot be charged for referencing costs \u2022 Tenants cannot be charged for any tenancy agreements \u2022 Tenants cannot be charged for part costs of inventories or check-in\/outs \u2022 Security deposits will be capped at 5 weeks\u2019 rent (or 6 weeks\u2019 rent for annual rents over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/tenant-fees-bill-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tenant Fees Bill 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwdp.uk\/rlpm\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}