Tennant contract from whsmiths/online - anyone use them?

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I will be living with a tennant in my home. Has anyone used one of these before?

Any views/advice appreciated. She is collecting keys tomorrow and moving stuff in on wed.

Yes, yes i knwo i have left it late but that cant be helped.

Yes, I use them, only that there is a lot there about the Deposit Protection scheme. I do not put my lodger's deposit in there, as it costs money and if it is a flatshare, I think you can skip this. If you let the whole flat, then you are obliged to use the Scheme.
What I did is, I just retyped the contract, skipping the DPS option, and then having it in my PC, I can use it again and again. And do not forget to include, that tenant is only renting one room in the house mentioning which room is it: i.e to the left/right of corridor

Do not use the normal Assured Shorthold Tenancy agreement- they do not apply if you have someone living in your property with you. You need the license agreement for excluded occupiers which ultimately means that you only have to give about 2 weeks verbal notice (not 2 written months and then have to go through court eviction procedures as required for ASTs).

Eviction advice form Shelter:

What is 'reasonable notice'?

If you have a written agreement with your landlord it may state how much notice the landlord has to give you. If that is the case then this is the minimum notice required. If you have lived in your home for a long time it may be possible to argue that it would be reasonable to give a longer period of notice.

Akiko is right that you do not have to put the deposit in to a protection scheme as it will not be an Assured Shorthold tenancy.

If you don't have a written agreement with the landlord you may still have agreed with your landlord about the length of notice before you leave. If not the landlord has to give reasonable notice.

There are no set rules about what is reasonable. It depends on:

• the length of time you have been living there
• the length of time between rent payments
• whether you have been getting on with your landlord
• how quickly the landlord needs someone else to move in.

What happens after the notice ends?

Once your landlord has given reasonable notice and it has ended you can be evicted. Your landlord has the right to change the locks while you are out or may remove your belongings and place them outside to persuade you to leave.

Your landlord may be guilty of committing a criminal offence if physical violence is used or threatened during the eviction.