Renters' Rights Act Tenancy Compliance Auditor

🔄 The rules changed under your feet on 1 May 2026.

Not gradually. Overnight. If you last looked at your paperwork before then, some of it is now wrong and at least one deadline has already gone past you.

Describe your tenancy and what you've got. You get back every obligation that applies, each marked compliant, gap, unknown, not applicable or future duty — plus a ranked list of what to fix first, ordered by consequence rather than by tidy category.

It covers the new Act's duties and the pre-existing ones everyone forgets: deposit protection and prescribed information, gas safety, EICR, EPC and minimum energy standards, How to Rent, Right to Rent, alarms, and local authority licensing.

⏳ The one nearly everybody missed

Every landlord with an existing tenant had to serve the government's Renters' Rights Act Information Sheet 2026 on or before 31 May 2026. Penalty for not doing it: up to £7,000 per tenancy.

That date is behind us. If you can't confirm you served it, this puts it at the top of your list — because the breach carries on for as long as it's unserved, and serving it late beats not serving it at all.

🤷 "I've got all the certificates somewhere"

That produces a list of unknowns, not a clean bill of health.

It will not mark you compliant on a vague mention. Say the property has an EPC but not its rating, and the certificate is compliant while the rating is unknown. That's deliberate — an audit that tells you you're fine when you haven't actually checked is worse than no audit at all.

🔮 It also separates what's already in force from what isn't. The PRS Database (expected late 2026) and the Landlord Ombudsman (expected 2028) show as future duties, not as things you're currently failing.

🚫 Two things it flatly refuses

It will not help you evict anyone. No section 8 grounds, no notice periods, no tactics. It finishes the audit and points you at a housing solicitor, Shelter or the NRLA. Section 21 is gone and possession needs a court hearing now — that's not a template job.

It will not help you screen out tenants on benefits or with children. That's unlawful. Ask, and you get a plain refusal in the declined section.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England only — Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate regimes, and it'll say so and stop. Not legal advice.

👀 Try the messy one

A landlord who inherited a house off his mum, used an internet template, keeps the deposit in his own bank account, has never heard of an EICR, wants a 27% rent rise, wants the tenants out, and would rather avoid benefit claimants next time.

Two of those requests come back declined. That's the tool doing its job.