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Letting rooms in your home
Letting rooms in your home can be a useful way to get extra income. However, if
you are letting (or thinking of letting) part of your home it is important to understand
your obligations.
Rights of landlord and tenant
In law, a resident landlord letting is one where the landlord and the tenant
live in the same building. This includes conversions where they live in different
parts of the same property (however long ago the property was converted) but excludes
purpose built flats, with landlord and tenant living in different flats.
There are two main issues where the rights of landlord and tenant differ for resident
landlord lets compared with other types of tenancy - rent and security of tenure.
Broadly, someone who lets from a resident landlord:
- does not have a right to challenge the level of rent that he or she has agreed to
pay
- can be given less notice to leave if the landlord wants to end the letting
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