Services

Tenant's guide to deposit protection schemes - your deposit, information landlords must provide, disputes and advice.

When you need building regs approval, how to apply, using a competent person scheme, and determinations and appeals

Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants

Application form ID1 to prove your identity when lodging an application to HM Land Registry.

• From: HM Land Registry

Start a business to help people or communities - business structures including community interest companies and co-operatives

Registering land or property in England - first time registration, transfer of ownership, changing your details on the register, where to register in Scotland or Northern Ireland

If a tenant is having difficulty paying their rent, apply for a Managed Payment to Landlord using the Apply for a Direct Rent Payment service to request payment of rent from a tenant’s Universal Credit.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions

You must check that a tenant or lodger can legally rent your residential property in England.

Landlord responsibilities when renting out your property, including making repairs, health and safety, increasing the rent and changing regulated tenancies.

Buy your housing association home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.

Find out how to get a recycling bin from your local council

Landlords need to follow certain procedures when evicting tenants - find out about eviction notices, harassment and illegal evictions, and going to court

Arrange for a collection of clinical waste - for items like used syringes, drugs, pharmaceuticals and surgical waste

Application form DJP: remove the name of a joint proprietor from the register, after a death.

• From: HM Land Registry

How to fully or partly repay your equity loan - with your own money, when you sell your home or when you remortgage.

• From: Homes England

Search by postcode to check if a property is built over an old coal mine - find out if you need a coal mining report, what it covers, other reports available, fees

Information for landlords in England on tenant eviction: assured shorthold tenancies, including eviction notices, Section 21, Section 8, accelerated possession, possession orders, bailiffs

Apply to rent a garage from the local council - there may be a waiting list

Report potholes on A roads, motorways and local roads to the council

Fly-tipping is the illegal dumping of waste or rubbish - report it to the local council or to Crimestoppers