Welcome to the Landlord's Area.
This area of the website is for keeping MLAS landlords/agents up-to-date with the Scheme and to provide them with easy access to information/forms you may find useful. (If you are interested in becoming a MLAS landlord/agent, please use the other links on the left.)
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Continuing Professional Development - as you will be aware, accreditation for Landlords lasts for 5 years. You will be accredited (free) after this time if you can show that you have taken reasonable steps to maintain and develop your knowledge. In order to prove this to us, you need to accrue 50 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points over the 5 years of your accreditation. If you do not manage to accrue 50 points, you will need to attend another MLAS professional development course (and pay the relevant fee), so we can ensure that your knowledge and practice is kept up to date. To download full details of our CPD scheme, click here.
Accrediting Agents Policy - we are now in a position to be able to accredit individual agents, providing that 2/3rds of the staff involved in letting/management of properties have attended a MLAS course, and that they have agreed to abide by our accrediting agents policy (and signed and returned this policy to us). After 1st October 2008, agents cannot claim to be accredited unless they have done this. Click here to download a copy of this policy (including return form).
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Publicity - please get in touch if you would like us to send you the MLAS logo (for letters etc.), or more MLAS window stickers for displaying in your properties.
It has come to our attention that a number of landlords seem unclear about the law around tenancy deposits. You must place all deposits in a recognised tenancy deposit scheme. If you fail to do so, each tenant can be awarded their original deposit back plus three times this amount, and you will face a hefty fine. Find more details here.
We would also like to remind you all that if your property has three or more storeys and has five or more people living in it and sharing facitilies (toilets, kitchens etc.) it will probably need a licence. Again, there are severe penalties for not licensing these houses. Find more details here.
Finally, please can all landlords double check that they have gas and electric certificates in place for all of their rented properties, and that any works recommended in relation to these have been carried out. It is our intention to carry out spot-checks with a sample of landlords in the near future.
