Do Multi Lets manage single properties?
Yes we manage all residential property types, including:
Rooms in shared houses (HMOs), Studios, Apartments, Flats, Houses, & Bungalows
Do you accept students?
Yes, some landlords accept students. Usually they will ask for a guarantor.
Do you offer short term lets?
Our rental agreements range from 1 week to 6 monthly lets. This is dependant on the terms & condition of the landlord.
In what areas do Multi Lets provide landlord services?
We can offer an 'Advertise Only' service anywhere in the UK.
The other services we offer including Tenant finding, Rent collection & Management of properties need to be within The City of Birmingham, City of Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall areas.
Do you use short hold tenancy agreements?
Our landlords specify if they want to use short hold tenancy agreements or licences. This usually depends on if the property is available for short term lets or long term lets.
What is the definition of a HMO?
An HMO means a house in multiple occupation. The legal definition was changed
by the Housing Act 2004 and it is complex, simply put, an HMO is a flat or a house
occupied by three or more unrelated persons who do not form a single household
i.e. live as a couple or family. No adaptations need to have been made to the
property e.g. locks on doors for it to be HMO. It does not have to be proved that the
landlord knew that it was occupied by more than three unrelated persons so a lot of
landlords are unknowingly HMO landlords where their tenants have without the
landlord’s knowledge, for example taken in lodgers.
Where a 3 or more storey property is involved, which is occupied by five or more
persons who form two or more households, who share facilities i.e. bathroom or
kitchen, then its subject to mandatory licensing and as of 6th July 2006. The
landlord will be required to be licensed or risk being fined. Also the tenants and if
any of them are on housing benefit then the housing benefit department are able to
recover the rent paid while you were unlicensed. You are also unable to evict a
tenant while being unlicensed if you should be licensed.
Buildings converted entirely into self contained flats are also an HMO, if they do
not meet at least the 1991 building regulations and less than two thirds of the flats
are owner occupied.
For more information about HMO's please visit www.hmodaddy.co.uk
