Tenancy agreement & disability

A landlord might not realise that a landlord cannot have unreasonable terms in their tenancy agreement.

For instance if your tenant is disabled, the landlord must take reasonable steps to change the tenancy agreement if a term of the tenancy agreement makes it impossible or difficult for you to live in the property because of a tenants disability.

Landlords who don't take reasonable steps to change the tenancy agreement are discriminating against their tenant as a disabled person and they are breaking the law. What's reasonable will depend on the circumstances but, for example, you as the landlord must agree to change a term of the agreement so that you can make disability-related improvements to the property or so that your tenant can have an assistance dog.


For more information about what are unfair terms.