Background: My student son is renting an HMO property direct from a landlord (no agency involved).The landlord inherited the property from his parent a few years ago. He has always been a bit of a corner-cutter on the admin (for example, no guarantors or credit checks requested) and it's difficult to tell if that's because he's naive or just doesn't like to spend money on third party services.
Question: The tenants have never seen an electric safety certificate, but we did check that it had an HMO license when they moved in. The license expired last week, and the local authority website shows that it hasn't yet been renewed. It may just be a delay in updating the register, but if the renewal process really was underway would there have been a visit from an electrician? (There hasn't been one yet).
Thankfully, they don't have gas.