To continue you my last blog article this New regulations on Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector are soon due to come into effect with landlords and agents being held responsible to ensure that electrical installation inspections and testing are carried out on all new tenancies from the 1st July 2020 and all existing tenancies from April 1st 2021 deposit the date being on April fool’s day we shall look past that and say that we encourage all of our landlords to have then carried out once a year, it is an expense that you can claim against and also ensue that your tenants safety is held with the most utmost importance, god forbid anything was to happen such as an electrical fire, if it was it would all be down to due diligence to show that you did as much as possible and that we as agents recommend it
Letting agents and landlords will be required to supply each tenant with a report of the results of the inspection and test with 28 days and keep a copy on file until the next inspection date, we at present for all the landlords we carry this out for upload it to the My Area of our website so both landlords and tenants can access it.