Site Rules
Tenancy Information UK
In order to meet our obligations under the Privacy
Act:
- Only UK resident: Landlords and Managing
Agents may register.
- In the case of a company with multiple staff,
each member of your
staff
that is using the site must have their own username (login name)
and password, so that if a complaint is made by a person recorded
on our system the Privacy Commissioner can check with our member
that they have the prerequisite tenant's authority to do checks
and lodge them on our system. It is the responsibility of companies,
individual Landlord/managing Agents to maintain security of your
username and passwords otherwise you and your company will be
liable, togeather with the user who has breached the Privacy Act.
Having individual user name and password is useful to monitor
who in your office is doing the checks, and should a staff member
leave we can easily cancel their user account without disruption
to the balance of your office users.
- We strongly urge you to refer to samples
of our tenancy agreement. The reason for this is that tenants
must be made aware that they may be added to a database. Our agreement
states this. Most tenants have no problem with this as it is in
their interest if they are reasonable tenants. We offer sample
agreements at our resource centre that can be printed for free.
- If you do not use our tenancy agreement
then you must add a statement to your preferred agreement, which
makes it clear that the tenant may be added to a database at the
end of the tenancy. This statement is available from the Resource
centre.
- Some landlords may submit a glowing report
on tenants they feel deserve this praise.
- We insist that you obtain a prospective
tenants written permission before doing a reference check on them
(generally via your Tenancy Agreement or Fact Find form). A suggested
initial Fact Find form can
be found at the resource centre.
- We insist that all information added to the
database must be correct in its entirety and fair.
- We insist that tenant information from the
database is only used for the purpose of evaluating a prospective
tenant.
Disclaimer: Information on this website is provided by registered
LBTUK. members. Members agree to indemnify and hold harmless LBTUK.
and its directors and officers, from any claim, suit, loss, damage
or expense incurred by LBTUK. and its directors and officers as
a result of any references provided by a member, use of a reference
by a member, or a members usage of this site. Please be truthful
and fair in all your reports submitted to this site. Members found
breaching site rules will have their membership suspended.
A word to tenants - You have the right to see the information held
about you by any credit bureau or tenant database, and to correct
it in accordance with the Privacy Act. If you wish to view the information
we hold about you, you must register to check the details and if
so wish, make a statement in your defence next to that report.
Add your
good or bad tenants to our database.
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