Tenancy Documents

When you rent a home you need a tenancy document. It is an important legal document.

If you live in a shared property Anchor Properties will give you a Licence to Occupy.

If you live alone in a sole occupancy property Anchor Properties will give you a Tenancy Agreement.

Your tenancy document gives you the right to live in your home if you do the following things:

pay your rent and service charges
keep your home in good repair. This means you should look after your home and you should not damage any of the furniture that Anchor provides
keep to all of the rules in your agreement. You can ask the Housing team or your support worker to go through them with you if you unsure what they are

Each time your agreement expires we will send you a new one.

The differences between the tenancy documents

	Shared Housing - Licence to Occupy	Living Alone - Tenancy Agreement
Term	Your first Licence to occupy with be for 3 months Your next Licences will be for 12 months	Tenancy Agreements have to be for a minimum of 6 months
Rent	Weekly rates of rent and service charges are charged every four weeks	Weekly rates of rent and service charges are charged every month
Household bills	The gas, electric, water rates and communal TV Licence are included in the property's service charges Tenants contribute an equal share towards other bills such as the phone and internet	Tenants are responsible for all household bills
Ending the agreement	Anchor Properties or the tenant can end the agreement early by giving 4 weeks notice in writing Anchor Properties can end the agreement immediately without notice if we consider the tenant to have committed gross misconduct	Anchor Properties or the tenant can give notice that the agreement will not be renewed when it expires at least 2 months before it is due to end If a tenant wants to end the agreement before it is due to expire it will at Anchor Properties' discretion whether to accept their request or not Anchor Properties would need to follow a legal process if we wanted to end the agreement early