Changing Sharers

Changing sharers has long been a difficult and dangerous point in letting a property. Following a recent court case, it just got more tricky for the unwary. In this case the landlord originally let the property in 2004 and since that time had had a variety of different people joining and leaving the property at different times, without ever formally creating a new tenancy. For the purposes of the court case the early occupiers of the property do not matter, suffice to say that by the time the relevant occupiers took on the property none of the original occupiers remained. ...