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No. 15
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No. 1512 lessons
Understand how renting in England works since the May 2026 reforms: what kind of tenancy you have, who must fix what, and how a landlord can and cannot end it. Check fees and deposits, get repairs moving, answer a notice and leave without paying twice; two optional lessons prepare you for buying a home. England only: Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own rules.
Recommended orderLessons build on earlier ideas. Follow the numbers as you read.
Find out what you actually hold since the May 2026 reforms, and when sharing a home with your landlord puts you outside these rules.
9 steps
Read the safety records by their dates, and check fees, caps and terms before you pay anything.
12 stepsBuilds on What Is an Assured Tenancy?
Check the 30-day protection clock, and make a check-in record that will hold up if the deposit is ever disputed.
9 stepsBuilds on What Is an Assured Tenancy?
See what Section 11 puts on your landlord, report a fault so it counts, and know why withholding rent backfires.
10 stepsBuilds on What Is an Assured Tenancy?
Know who can come into your home, when and on what notice, and when access turns into harassment.
8 stepsBuilds on What Is an Assured Tenancy?, Who Fixes What?
Test any charge, clause or rent rise against three questions, and know the most a tribunal can set your rent at.
12 stepsBuilds on Before You Sign, Who Fixes What?
Follow a landlord’s notice from the doormat to court and enforcement, and know what to do the day it arrives.
11 stepsBuilds on What Is an Assured Tenancy?, Deposit Protection and the Inventory
Pick an end date that works, and see why one joint tenant’s notice ends the tenancy for everyone.
12 stepsBuilds on What Is an Assured Tenancy?, Deposit Protection and the Inventory
Answer each proposed deduction by obligation, evidence and amount, without paying for the landlord’s upgrade.
13 stepsBuilds on Deposit Protection and the Inventory
Choose who can act on an ignored repair, and combine what you know about repairs, deposits and possession when problems arrive together.
11 stepsBuilds on Who Fixes What?, Deposit Protection and the Inventory, Landlord Notices and Possession
Follow an ordinary home purchase in England, turn survey findings into questions, and settle what matters before exchange.
13 steps
Know what you’d own in a flat: the lease clock, the shared costs and the 80-year line, and the questions to ask before you offer.
10 stepsBuilds on Before You Exchange Contracts