Birmingham lettings specialists
The rules changed.
Your paperwork didn't.
If you let a property in Birmingham, the notice you have used for years stops working on 31 July, fixed terms are going, and the wrong form can cost you £7,000.
Get your copy
The guide goes to your email. The mobile is so we can offer you the free 15 minute call.
- 5 minute read
- Plain English
- Free 15 minute call, if you want it
- The guide lands in your inbox, usually within a few minutes. If you cannot see it, look in your junk folder.
- Then a call from our Birmingham office. Fifteen minutes on where your paperwork actually stands.
- You keep the guide either way, and you do not have to move your properties to us.
What's inside
The new law is a long read. We kept the six parts that can actually cost you money.
No fault evictions are gone. The grounds you can still use and how the process runs now.
Which notice replaces the old one, and what happens to one you have already served.
Every tenancy becomes rolling and tenants can give two months notice. What it means for your agreements.
The new limits on how and when you can put the rent up, and the tribunal route tenants now have.
When you can still say no, and how to protect the property when you can't.
The exact documents that trip landlords up, and the order to fix them in.
What it costs to get it wrong
Councils enforce these with civil penalties. Not knowing is not a defence.
A certificate that ran out, a document that never got handed over, a form that has since been replaced. It does not have to be deliberate.
Serious breaches, or the same problem again after you have been told to fix it.
Serve one after that and it does nothing. Your tenant stays, the rent you were counting on does not arrive, and you start again from the beginning.
Most of it is not a solicitor job. It is knowing which form to use and when. That is what the guide is for.
Get the free guideWho's behind it
A Birmingham lettings firm, not a faceless portal.
We're Greengates. We manage rentals across Birmingham every day, so we deal with these rules for real, not in theory.
We wrote this guide because good landlords keep getting caught by rules nobody told them about. The guide is free and so is the call. If all you ever take from us is the answers, that's fine by us.
If you already have an agent, this is still worth five minutes. You are the landlord, so the liability is yours either way.
Pop your details in and it lands in your inbox. A five minute read.
Read the guide first. If you would rather someone looked at your actual tenancy than work it out from a PDF, we will go through one agreement with you. Fifteen minutes, and you will know what to check on notice type, certificates, deposit protection and the wording that needs changing before the next renewal.
Optional. We go through your tenancy documents and tell you what's missing.
Quick answers
Why is it free?
We are a Birmingham lettings firm. Some landlords read the guide and later ask us to manage their properties. That is the whole business model. The guide and the call cost you nothing, now or later.
My letting agent handles all this. Do I need it?
Even with an agent running the day to day, you are the landlord and the liability sits with you. Plenty of agents are already on top of the changes. The guide is how you tell, because you will know what should be happening and by when.
Do I have to switch to your management?
No. Plenty of landlords take the guide and the call and carry on self managing. If you ever want help, you'll know where we are.
Will I get spammed?
You get the guide, a call from a real person at our Birmingham office, and a few short emails on the rule changes. One tap at the bottom of any of them stops the emails for good. We never pass your details to anyone else.
I am part way through a fixed term. Does this reach me yet?
Yes. The changes reach tenancies that are already running, not just new ones, and the notice rules change on a set date rather than at your next renewal. The guide sets out what happens to a tenancy that is already in place.
I only have one property. Is this for me?
Especially for you. Accidental and single-property landlords are the ones the new rules catch out most, because nobody's paid to keep them up to date.