Ensuring Digital Signature Lawfulness for Lodger Agreement in United Kingdom

How to eSign a document: digital signature lawfulness for Lodger Agreement in United Kingdom

once your tenant has passed the reference checks then you can send him an agreement to sign and there's three ways for you to do that first way is the most time consuming and it's free you need to send him the agreement that we are going to attach to this description in this section you're going to get an agreement from us and you need to ask them to sign each one of the pages and the last page as well with the signature in the name and then scan it and send it back to you that is the um first way and the most time consuming as well and annoying second way you can do it is by uploading the agreement we're giving you into a website that allows you for each signatures and we have a tutorial about that i'm going to put in the description a video about how to do it how to use that service and it's free if you only want to sign one agreement okay and the third way for you to do it is to use a platform that does that for you already the platform has the forms already embedded all you need to do is to type the details of your tenant and to send him the um request or maybe you don't even have to do that so the platforms that i'm talking about allow you to also do the reference checking so all of these steps are already done for you we are working on a platform like that as well so hopefully by the time you see this video we are going to allow we're going to be able to offer you the service so basically what you need to do is when you want to um hire us to do the referencing for you is just to provide us with the details of the tenant and the phone number and we will take it from there and the same goes with the agreement if it's all booked in one platform that you might not even need to provide the details of the tenant because we're gonna have them from here okay so that is the easiest way but that is the most expensive one and can it can be done by an online property management platform okay and um a few other things i want to discuss with you when you use a tenancy agreement if you're not going to use hours and you want to use another one you have to look at the agreement and make sure and that it's designed specifically for hmos and for renting one room in the agreement you have to go over it and make sure that you've ticked all the boxes with the bills that are included usually when you rent a room in an hmo as a landlord it's much easier if you pay for the bills and you put the price of the bills inside the rent so um everything is included for the tenant you also have to consider if you're going to which bills are you going to pay for do you pay for wi-fi do you pay for tv license you pay for what are you going to pay for um one thing that i am doing in the hmos is just getting a tv connected to the wi-fi and a netflix account if you have one you can use your own if you're allowed to have multiple users and maybe you don't want to buy the tv license because millennials and generation x do not watch tv they mainly use the tv or the computer for watching netflix or amazon movies or youtube videos so they don't actually watch tv because they don't like the commercials okay and one last thing if you're going to use a different agreement you have to look at the agreement and see if this is an old agreement it might have some clauses where it states that the tenants need to pay for things and as of 2019 there's a law stating that you are not allowed to charge fees from your tenants for specific things so for example the maximum deposit you can charge is six weeks if the rent in is more than fifty thousand pounds a year okay so you have to be careful with these things i'm going to do another tutorial where i'm going to explain to you exactly what tenants can be charged for and what they cannot be charged for okay but for now this is all you need to know okay and now we are going to move on to the last section stating what email you need to send to your um tenant once they have made the payments so basically what needs to happen is you're gonna send them this agreement they're going to sign the agreement but actually in the top of the agreement it says that it's only valid once they they've made the payment which is the six months of six weeks of rent or you could say four weeks of rent you know you can negotiate with them but whatever it says in the agreement that they need to pay that's what you have to have in your bank account if you um want to give them the key so you shouldn't give them the keys unless you have the first month of rent and the deposit okay and um let's move on to the next email so after you have the money in your account you will send them the tenancy email starting and the email saying that they can collect the keys okay let's go to the next section