The Rent-to-Rent Agreement

Consents, contracts, insurance and staying compliant under the new rules

Rent-to-rent sits on a foundation of agreements, consents and legal duties, and this book explains them in plain English. It starts with the question that decides almost everything else, and establishes why, in rent-to-rent, you are the immediate landlord of the people living in the property. You will see the permissions, licensing and planning issues particular to rent-to-rent, the two separate contractual relationships in every deal, with the owner and with the occupiers, and what each agreement must contain. The safety chapter explains why landlord safety duties fall on you as the person who lets the property, and covers insurance. The tax chapter explains how rent-to-rent income is treated differently from the owner's rental income and how to choose a structure. A compliance checklist turns all of this into a routine, and the final chapter sets out the price of getting it wrong, which is high, specific and increasingly enforced. Next in this series: “Scaling to Twenty Agreements”.

What’s inside

• The legal framework in plain English
• Permissions, licensing and planning
• The contracts, and what must be inside them
• Insurance, safety and your legal duties
• Tax treatment and choosing a structure
• Your compliance checklist
• Getting this wrong: what it actually costs

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