Compliance
One postcode sets the rules for that property
Deposit schemes, deadlines and which notices are open to you all change at a border. LetBuddy reads the nation from each property's postcode and applies that nation's rules, so a portfolio that crosses one is not run from a spreadsheet per country.
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Then drop a certificate on it and watch the expiry get read off it.
Compliance health
across 4 properties
- Collected
- £4,6804 of 4 tenancies
- Arrears
- £0all collected
- Next due
- 41dEPC · Merchant Ln
12 Oak Street
Manchester
A. Mensah
£1,450
9 Merchant Lane
Leeds
J. Okafor
£1,180
Energy Performance Certificate expires in 41 days
9 Merchant Lane — a reminder emails you 30 days before it lapses, and again at seven.
4 Bellfield Road
Sheffield
L. Whitcombe
£2,050
31 Carver Row
Nottingham
Vacant
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- Deposit schemes
- DPS · MyDeposits · TDS
- Protection deadline
- 30 daysfrom receipt
- Rent increase
- Section 13drafted for you
Deposit deadlines by nation
The same deposit, three different clocks and three sets of approved schemes.
Protect within
30 days
Approved schemes
- DPS
- MyDeposits
- TDS
What a missed date can cost
Statutory maximums, each with its source. Software does not stop a penalty. What a record kept at the time changes is the case where you did comply and have to show it later.
Protecting a deposit, and serving the prescribed information, within 30 days
A court order to pay the tenant between one and three times the deposit
To show you complied: The scheme reference, the date it was protected, and proof the prescribed information reached the tenant
Housing Act 2004, s.214Licensing, and the other breaches a rent repayment order can follow
Repaying up to two years' rent — doubled from one year on 1 May 2026
To show you complied: The licence, its dates, and a rent ledger showing what was actually paid over that period
GOV.UK — rent repayment ordersKeeping an in-date electrical installation report, and giving it to the tenant
A civil penalty of up to £40,000, raised from £30,000 on 1 May 2026
To show you complied: The EICR itself, its expiry date, and the date a copy went to the tenant
GOV.UK — electrical safety standardsRegistering on the PRS Database, and the new duties under the Renters' Rights Act
Up to £7,000 for a first or minor breach, and up to £40,000 where it is serious or repeated
To show you complied: Registration, the written statement of terms, and the certificates the register expects you to already hold
GOV.UK — civil penalties under the Renters' Rights Act 2025
Where it sits
It sits beside your adviser, your council and the register, not in place of them. LetBuddy holds the dates and the documents and reminds you before each one; it isn't legal advice, and the authority for any rule is the statute and the body that enforces it.
Questions
Does LetBuddy work wherever my properties are in the UK?
Yes. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and not the same tool with a different label. LetBuddy reads the nation from each property's postcode and adjusts. Deposit protection is the clearest case: you get that nation's approved schemes and the deadline that applies. 30 days in England and Wales, 30 working days in Scotland, 28 days in Northern Ireland. Compliance reminders, rent, maintenance and tax records work the same wherever you let.
Do the reminders depend on me signing in?
No. They run on our side and reach you by email, 30 days before a certificate is due, whether or not you have opened LetBuddy since.
Does LetBuddy tell me whether I need a licence?
No. Whether a property needs a licence, and under which scheme, is the local authority's to state. LetBuddy holds the licence, its expiry and the certificates behind it, and reminds you before the date.
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