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Tenancies are created by statutory laws and most tenancy agreements have at least one thing in that are not enforceable.
We have rented from plenty of landlords who think the tenancy agreement overrides the law and landlords who think they have rights over the house that they don't just because they own it.
Examples include the landlord has no rights of entry that any other member of the public doesn't have. Ie they can be trespassing in a house they own if someone else has possession. And one landlord even tried to tell us where to keep the bins and various other things, and we had to wash the windows at some regular interval. We were even told by one we had to provide receipts for shampooing the carpets after moving out.
One such thing is about the metering, if the tenant has the account they are allowed to change to any supplier, furthermore the contents of the meter board owned by the dno are not even a matter for the tenant, let alone the landlord. The supplier can change whatever they like on there, even if you are an owner occupier. Eg pre payment meters.
Any charges attempted by the landlord for arranging the dno to change their equipment would be difficult to charge to the tenant. Might be interesting to argue with the small claims court on that.
Same goes for changing the locks, the tenant can do this when they move in, and as long as they either change back or supply keys when they vacate there's nothing the landlord can do.
We have rented from plenty of landlords who think the tenancy agreement overrides the law and landlords who think they have rights over the house that they don't just because they own it.
Examples include the landlord has no rights of entry that any other member of the public doesn't have. Ie they can be trespassing in a house they own if someone else has possession. And one landlord even tried to tell us where to keep the bins and various other things, and we had to wash the windows at some regular interval. We were even told by one we had to provide receipts for shampooing the carpets after moving out.
One such thing is about the metering, if the tenant has the account they are allowed to change to any supplier, furthermore the contents of the meter board owned by the dno are not even a matter for the tenant, let alone the landlord. The supplier can change whatever they like on there, even if you are an owner occupier. Eg pre payment meters.
Any charges attempted by the landlord for arranging the dno to change their equipment would be difficult to charge to the tenant. Might be interesting to argue with the small claims court on that.
Same goes for changing the locks, the tenant can do this when they move in, and as long as they either change back or supply keys when they vacate there's nothing the landlord can do.