What are a tenant’s obligations to their landlord?
A tenant’s obligations to their landlord can be summarised as follows. Repairs Your tenants are obligated to use the property in a ‘tenant-like manner’, which means that they will be responsible for any repairs that are their own fault, even if they would otherwise fall to be paid for by the landlord. Generally, the tenant is responsible for the condition of the interior of the property, but the landlord can restrict their tenants in the tenancy agreement from doing any redecoration. The tenant must pay for anything that is broken or damaged in the landlord’s property during the tenancy and the landlord can deduct the cost of this from the damage deposit that is taken at the start of a tenancy agreement. Outgoings The landlord will not normally want to be stuck with paying a tenant’s bills, so tenancy agreements provide for the tenants to pay them. However, if there are a number of different tenants coming and going on individual tenancy agreements, the utility accounts may have to be
