Residential Letting & Property Management
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Who makes the decision to accept or reject an offer?
Read more: Who makes the decision to accept or reject an offer?The decision to accept or reject an offer rests with the landlord – Jungle Property do not make this decision. Still not answered your question? We love questions so fire it at us using the contact details here Please rate this article so we know how well it answered your question…
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How much is the Holding Deposit?
Read more: How much is the Holding Deposit?The Holding Deposit is equivalent to one weeks’ rent and is calculated by multiplying the rent per calendar month (PCM) by 12 and dividing the result by 52. The amount of the Holding Deposit for a property is shown on the listing for the property under ‘Tenant Will Need’. Still not answered your question? We love questions so fire it at us using the contact details here Please rate this article so we know how well it answered your question…
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What does a reasonable expedition mean?
Read more: What does a reasonable expedition mean?Legal speak for ‘quickly’ 🙂 Still not answered your question? We love questions so fire it at us using the contact details here Please rate this article so we know how well it answered your question…
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Does the notice period for my notice to quit need to the end on the last day of a period of my tenancy?
Read more: Does the notice period for my notice to quit need to the end on the last day of a period of my tenancy?Yes – For the notice to quit to be valid the notice period must end on the last day of a period of the tenancy. Further Reading Assured Shorthold Tenancy Tenants’ Notice to Quit – Is it valid? {Jungle Property Blog article} Do I need to pay the whole of the rent for the last month if I am leaving mid-period? {Jungle Property Knowledgebase Article} Still not answered your question? We love questions so fire it at us using the contact details here Please rate this article so we know how well it answered your question…
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Are landlords responsible for protecting tenants from COVID-19?
Read more: Are landlords responsible for protecting tenants from COVID-19?Neither Public Health England nor the Department of Health have issued instructions to landlords. It is not a landlord’s responsibility, nor is it advisable, to give tenants advice on personal hygiene or medical advice. Also a landlord does not need to know (nor has a right to know) a tenant’s medical details. If a landlord or his agent or appointed contractor needs to visit the property for some “essential” reason, the landlord, agent or contractor would need to know whether the house is under self-isolation (not why or by whom it was started) and when isolation either started or is…
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Can I (landlord) cancel a Section 21?
Read more: Can I (landlord) cancel a Section 21?*** Effective 1st May 2026 Section 21 notices are no longer legal *** No – once issued a Section 21 notice cannot be withdrawn or cancelled. However for a Section 21 to remain valid for an Assured Shorthold Tenancy granted or renewed on or after 1 October 2015 possession proceedings must be commenced within: A Section 21 does not end a tenancy so if the landlord is happy for the tenancy to continue he need take no further action other than inform the tenant he does not wish to seek possession of the property at this time. The landlord’s right…
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Can the tenant serve a notice to quit during the initial period of the tenancy?
Read more: Can the tenant serve a notice to quit during the initial period of the tenancy?If the tenancy agreement does not have a clause on how the tenancy will continue after the end of a fixed term, and by default it allows the tenancy to become a statutory periodic tenancy after the end of the fixed term – no. (From Housing Act 1988, Section 5, if, on or before the date on which a tenancy is deemed to have been granted (start of statutory periodic tenancy), any notice to quit shall be of no effect). If the tenancy agreement has a clause stating the tenancy will ‘continue’ as a periodic tenancy after the end of…
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Can the check-out be carried out before the end of my tenancy?
Read more: Can the check-out be carried out before the end of my tenancy?No – the Check-Out is carried out at, or as soon as reasonably practicable after, 1300 on the last day of the tenancy. If you are planning on vacating the property before the last day of the tenancy, consideration needs to be given to the following: Keys returned before the last day of the tenancy are accepted for the purpose of the landlord seeking to sell or re-let the property and will not give rise to a surrender by operation of law. Meter readings for any electricity, gas, oil and any other relevant fuels, water supplies to the property taken…
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Do I need to read the meters and inform the utility companies at the start of the tenancy?
Read more: Do I need to read the meters and inform the utility companies at the start of the tenancy?No – Jungle Property will on your behalf read and photograph any accessible meters and gauges at the Check-In and notify, at the commencement and at the end of the tenancy, the local authority responsible for the collection of Council Tax and any providers of any electricity, gas, oil and any other relevant fuels, water and environmental services to the property. The meter readings are also provided to the tenant at the Check-In. Where a meter is not accessible e.g. waterlogged water meter, we will request the provider of the fuel or water attends and reads the meter on your…
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Why have I been charged for a Check-Out and compilation of the Inventory and Schedule of Condition Report carried out at the same visit?
Read more: Why have I been charged for a Check-Out and compilation of the Inventory and Schedule of Condition Report carried out at the same visit?The Check-Out and compilation of the Inventory and Schedule of Condition Report are two distinct pieces of work, generating two distinct artefacts for two separate tenancies: Inventory and Schedule of Condition Report – compiled immediately before the start of the tenancy to record its condition, together with fixtures, fittings and contents and with relevant meter readings. Check-Out Report – compiled at the end of the tenancy or as soon as possible afterwards comparing differences between the state of the property at that point with the original Inventory and Schedule of Condition Report. Check-Out – Analysing the differences between the Check-In…