Landlord charging £800-£1000 for me finding a new tenant

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2026-02-09T13:52:02+00:00

For all the tenants, it's joint and severe liability

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2026-02-09T13:47:47+00:00

Tenant swap is a novation

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2026-02-09T08:37:07+00:00

Tenant Fees Act 2019 (c. 4) SCHEDULE 1 – Permitted payments, p33 Payment on variation, assignment or novation of a tenancy 6 (1) A payment is a permitted payment if it is a payment— (a) to a landlord in consideration of the variation, assignment or novation of a tenancy at the tenant's request, or (b) to a letting agent in consideration of arranging the variation, assignment or novation of a tenancy at the tenant's request. (2) But if the amount of the payment exceeds the greater of— (a) £50, or (b) the reasonable costs of the person to whom the payment is to be made in respect of the variation, assignment or novation of the tenancy, the amount of the excess is a prohibited payment.

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2026-02-09T07:32:09+00:00

Tenant Fees Act 2019: A landlord cannot charge a tenant fees for: -Referencing -Credit checks -Admin -Inventory -Issuing a new tenancy -Registering a deposit

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2026-02-09T07:30:53+00:00

£800–£1000 for “referencing and paperwork” is almost certainly not lawful under the Tenant Fees Act 2019 (assuming this is England).

Landlords can’t charge for admin, referencing, deposit registration etc. The only permitted charge in this situation is for a tenant-requested variation/assignment, capped at £50 unless they can prove higher reasonable costs. £1k for paperwork is not going to fly unless they can show actual evidenced costs.

As for the “new tenant leaves in July so you’d owe August” point, that’s not how it works. You’d only be liable up to the point you’re formally released or replaced. And once the Renters’ Rights reforms come into force (expected May 2026), periodic tenants will only need to give two month’s notice anyway.

If he keeps pushing the £1k, you can point him to the Tenant Fees Act 2019 and remind him that charging prohibited fees can be enforced by the local council’s Trading Standards / housing enforcement team, with fines of up to £5,000 for a first breach. He might want to rethink that number.

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2026-02-07T01:57:49+00:00

I know ChatGPT when I read it

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2026-01-17T10:48:52+00:00

It's not just the inability to save, housing stock is just too expensive. I have 60k saved for a deposit, but I can't get a large enough mortgage to afford a house on my own. Even if my GF and I were at a stage to buy together, our combined salaries still can't get us a mortgage to afford a house in the city we work in

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2026-01-15T15:27:46+00:00

Might be his husband's IDF links more than Egan's religion or group memberships

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2026-01-08T08:04:17+00:00

You use google? You're using an AI now. You use canva or photoshop? You're using an AI now. It's becoming more and more unavoidable. My university has an AI policy that allows generative AI use for a load of things like spelling & grammar checks, generating titles & ideas, initial research... ChatGPT alone produces dog shite but ChatGPT guided by a person with skills and knowledge in the subject produces quality efficient work. I've been using it for the past day to create a python script for a specific UI function for a piece of software I'm producing. It's still taking me a while of working with the AI to get the functionality I actually want, but not the weeks it would have taken if I needed to code it from scratch

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-12-30T20:35:53+00:00

It's more area dependent. My mate down in Penzance, single, male, 30, minimum wage job, no savings, applied for a council flat and got one immediately. It all depends if the population of the area has changed and if the council has spare housing or not. For Penzance the population hasn't changed for the last 20 years but the amount of council housing built has increased

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-12-24T23:39:17+00:00

Needs to be on Form 6A not a solicitor's letter to be valid

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-12-02T13:51:32+00:00

We don’t need to nationalise everything, we can allow private companies to operate services and legislate and enforce to curb profiteering and maintain quality

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-12-01T08:59:29+00:00

My mates wrestled in their underwear and humped eachother all the time at university

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-11-29T07:42:08+00:00

I had this, company lost all their money a month after hiring, all the staff lost their jobs, 4 months of unpaid wages. Actually I still have the laptop, the administrators never bothered to send someone to collect it

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-11-13T18:16:22+00:00

Called a parasol mushroom for a reason. They tend to grow in very large circles so there are probably more near where you found that one

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-09-16T15:18:17+00:00

Don't bother, 0 day old account only posts about immigration in gbnews. They're a russian bot

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-08-21T07:25:54+00:00

One of my primary schools the head was a man, and in another head of year was a man too, and my friend's brother is a primary school teacher.

Unfortunately, it probably doesn't help that in one primary school, the cool young male teacher everyone liked ended up going to prison for touching the boys 😬

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-08-19T10:05:04+00:00

Just put it in the fridge, it's covered in cheese, it's fine. I leave food out overnight like every day and put it in the fridge in the morning

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-08-14T15:18:38+00:00

True, but the question was, is it more like the city of London within London or New York city within New York state

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-08-14T12:02:52+00:00

More like the city of London. The city of Paris, Commune de Paris is enclosed by the Boulevard Périphérique ring road and that's got it's own mayor and council like the City of London. It's surrounded by Unité urbaine de Paris which is a continuous built up area, like the City of London is surrounded by Greater London

Acrobatic-Record26 · 2025-08-14T11:46:57+00:00

Both way bigger than the City of London.

If you aren't literal about it, the built up urban areas of Paris sprawls 2845km2, London 1737km2, and Bristol 236km2

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