chuck43
12-03-2014, 03:57 PM
Hi there,
my partner wants to childmind from home and is level 3 qualified.
We are going through a little bother with our landlord as we rent private.
We email and asked if ok to do the childminding, and they said no due to estate agents saying no running a business from home. We did some research on this site and found was ok to do it from private rented property with landlords permission. So we fed the info back. We've been throwing as much info towards them as we can like insurance, ofsted etc.
Basically they have sent the following after us saying if we cannot do it from there then we will be forced to move out.
Dear Charlie and Liv
Thanks for the e-mail. We do understand the reasons for you wanting to run a child minding business but we are very nervous about any accidents happening at the property and with a number of children running around such a small space the risks are high. We also don’t want any damage to our property.
There are therefore various issues which need to be addressed before we can agree to this.
1. We would need to have a copy of the third party insurance you would be taking out.
2. We would need to have a copy of the Ofsted report.
3. We would need to do inspections of the property every two months.
4. We would need a break clause inserted into your lease giving us the ability to terminate your lease with two months’ notice. This would only be put into practice if it was deemed that the property was being damaged by the business or neighbours complained about noise, parking etc.
5. No overnight or weekend child minding.
6. We would need to increase the rent to £900 per calendar month.
If all the above points are acceptable and subject to us receiving the various documents referred to above and we are happy with their contents, then we would agree to the child minding business.
If however, you are not happy with this and choose to leave the property you will obviously be breaking the two year tenancy agreement that you signed in October. We have spoken to Andrews and asked what the implications are in you doing this. They have explained that if both parties are in agreement (which we would be) then it can be arranged but there are costs involved. We paid Andrews £892.80 to extend your tenancy for two years. They tell me that they would expect you to repay us on a pro rata basis. So, if you broke the tenancy after a year you would give us half of that figure or if you broke it after only six months then you would be expected to repay us about three quarters of the figure.
We do hope that we can come to an agreement and look forward to hearing from you.
my partner wants to childmind from home and is level 3 qualified.
We are going through a little bother with our landlord as we rent private.
We email and asked if ok to do the childminding, and they said no due to estate agents saying no running a business from home. We did some research on this site and found was ok to do it from private rented property with landlords permission. So we fed the info back. We've been throwing as much info towards them as we can like insurance, ofsted etc.
Basically they have sent the following after us saying if we cannot do it from there then we will be forced to move out.
Dear Charlie and Liv
Thanks for the e-mail. We do understand the reasons for you wanting to run a child minding business but we are very nervous about any accidents happening at the property and with a number of children running around such a small space the risks are high. We also don’t want any damage to our property.
There are therefore various issues which need to be addressed before we can agree to this.
1. We would need to have a copy of the third party insurance you would be taking out.
2. We would need to have a copy of the Ofsted report.
3. We would need to do inspections of the property every two months.
4. We would need a break clause inserted into your lease giving us the ability to terminate your lease with two months’ notice. This would only be put into practice if it was deemed that the property was being damaged by the business or neighbours complained about noise, parking etc.
5. No overnight or weekend child minding.
6. We would need to increase the rent to £900 per calendar month.
If all the above points are acceptable and subject to us receiving the various documents referred to above and we are happy with their contents, then we would agree to the child minding business.
If however, you are not happy with this and choose to leave the property you will obviously be breaking the two year tenancy agreement that you signed in October. We have spoken to Andrews and asked what the implications are in you doing this. They have explained that if both parties are in agreement (which we would be) then it can be arranged but there are costs involved. We paid Andrews £892.80 to extend your tenancy for two years. They tell me that they would expect you to repay us on a pro rata basis. So, if you broke the tenancy after a year you would give us half of that figure or if you broke it after only six months then you would be expected to repay us about three quarters of the figure.
We do hope that we can come to an agreement and look forward to hearing from you.