Drafting Tenancy Agreements and Terms of Business

Get to grips with tenancy agreements, the definitions they contain and the essential clauses that need to be included.

Learn how best to amend tenancy agreements, surrender a tenancy and avoid loopholes in your drafted agreement. The course also looks at terms of business and how they should be drafted in order to protect you as much as possible.

Senior managers, negotiators and any other person drafting tenancy agreements as part of their job will benefit from this course. It is recommended that you have some knowledge of the Housing Act 1988 and contract law before you attend.

Topics

Creation of a tenancy
Unfair terms
Consumer legislation and its effects on a tenancy agreement
Particulars of the agreement
Deposits and how they are held
Tenant’s obligations and how clauses should be drafted
Landlord’s obligations and the reasons behind them
Service of Notices and what should be included
Advanced points and clauses
Types of Deeds which effect the original terms agreed
Signatures and electronic signing
Interpreting phrases and their use

Specialist clauses including breaks, conditional rights and extensions
General notices and when they should be utilised
Assignment, Guarantees, early surrender and their treatment
General terms including commissions, fees and when they become payable
How to avoid loss of income and what clauses to include
Landlord’s obligations and the reasons for enforcement
Agent’s obligations and variations on the normal
Exclusion clauses and method of drafting
Legislation and the effect on the terms of business
Consumer legislation
Data protection, service of notices and other important provisions

Virtual classroom vs face-to-face

Our popular virtual classroom offers a streamlined version of our face-to-face courses. You will benefit from a dedicated session with our expert trainer from the comfort of your home or office. To enable the course to run smoothly, we ask that you mute your microphone unless asking a question and keep your camera on.

With our face-to-face courses you’ll benefit from the full lesson plan plus an increased level of interaction and group work. This is your chance to participate in group discussions with our expert trainer and other delegates on the course.

Location: Propertymark Westminster, 4th Floor, 5-8 The Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3JS

No course dates are currently available, please check back soon or call 01926 417 787 to speak to the courses team.

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Meet Your Trainer

Owner, PainSmith Solicitors

Marveen Smith was one of the founders of PainSmith Solicitors in 2001 and has been the only Principal of the property law specialists since 2006.

As well as working in her legal practice, Marveen is well known industry trainer and spokesperson. She has made regular appearances on Money Box for Radio 4 and Watchdog where she endeavoured to balance the one sided view of letting agents that can be presented by the media, as well as disseminating information to enable landlords to act in a more professional capacity.

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