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• Challenging a rent increase

  Find out if you can challenge your section 13 rent increase for free at a tribunal and check what evidence you need to send with your application.

• Check if your landlord can increase your rent

  Find out how to deal with a rent increase, find out how to negotiate to get a lower rent and check how you can challenge your rent increase.

• Check the costs of starting to rent from a private landlord

  Check what payments you need to make before you start renting. Get help if you can't pay a tenancy deposit or rent in advance.

• Preparing to rent from a private landlord

  Find out how to decide whether to rent from a landlord or letting agent, how to search for a property and what questions you should ask before you rent a home.

• If there's flooding in your rented home

  Information on dealing with flooding if you're a tenant, including emergency relocation, paying the rent and temporary homelessness.

• If you want to sell your home and rent it back

  Check the risks of using sale and rent back schemes and the rules firms must follow.

• Housing

  Get advice on renting, council tax, homelessness and problems where you live.

• Rent and mortgage arrears - administration orders

  Lists the types of debts which can be included in an administration order, those that can't (and what to do about them), the limit on the amount of debt and whether to include joint debts