{"id":1863,"date":"2017-06-19T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2017-06-19T09:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T09:06:32","slug":"uk-landlords-scared-of-right-to-rent-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/uk-landlords-scared-of-right-to-rent-penalties.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Landlords Scared of Right to Rent Penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Residential Landlords Association has highlighted problems caused by the government\u2019s \u2018Right to Rent\u2019 scheme. Nearly half of all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.basic_tenancy.html#watch-demo-anchor\">landlords<\/a> quizzed by a leading landlord insurance company categorically stated that they would not let a property to anyone without a UK passport. 22% of landlords questioned also expressed doubts about offering a tenancy to EU nationals.<\/p>\n<p>With continued confusion surrounding Brexit and the status of EU citizens living in the UK, this makes it much harder for anyone without a UK passport to find somewhere to live. It is also a problem for 17% of citizens who don\u2019t have a passport.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Landlords Afraid of Repercussions<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen asked why they were so reluctant to let properties to non-UK passport holders, landlords explained that they feared the repercussions of allowing a bogus passport holder to slip through the net. Unfortunately, this is having an effect on UK citizens without a passport.<\/p>\n<p>Any landlord who has \u201creasonable cause to believe\u201d that the person letting their property does not have the correct immigration status is committing a criminal offence. Penalties for conviction range from fines to a prison offence, and possibly both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Changes to Right to Rent Scheme<\/strong><br \/>\nThe new changes to the \u2018Right to Rent\u2019 scheme came into effect in December 2016. If a landlord finds out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.landlord_legal_documents.html#watch-demo-anchor\">tenant<\/a> is disqualified from letting a property, they must issue a 28-day eviction notice. If the landlord submits a Section 8 notice and doesn\u2019t refer to the Immigration Act 2016, it is invalid and the eviction will fail on technical grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Residential Landlords Association has highlighted problems caused by the government\u2019s \u2018Right to Rent\u2019 scheme. Nearly half of all landlords quizzed by a leading landlord insurance company categorically stated that they would not let a property to anyone without a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/uk-landlords-scared-of-right-to-rent-penalties.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property_management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}