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Trust & transparency

Editorial policy

RentDocs is used to make decisions with legal and financial consequences. This page sets out how our guidance is produced, who produces it, and what you can hold us to.

Who writes RentDocs

RentDocs is built and written by working UK landlords with support from letting-industry practitioners. Our editorial team manages residential tenancies in England and has direct, current experience of deposit protection, licensing applications, compliance certification, arrears and possession. Product and editorial are the same small team, which is why the guidance mirrors what the software actually does.

We are not solicitors and RentDocs is not a law firm. Nothing on this site is legal advice. Where a decision turns on the facts of your tenancy — a possession claim, a disrepair dispute, a licensing prosecution — take advice from a solicitor or your local authority.

How we source

  • Primary legislation on legislation.gov.uk is the first source for any statement about the law, followed by the relevant statutory instrument.
  • Official guidance — GOV.UK, Welsh Government, mygov.scot, nidirect, the HSE and local authority licensing pages — is used for process and timescales.
  • Sector bodies and case reporting are used for context and practical interpretation, never as the sole authority for a legal statement.
  • Every substantive article lists its sources. Where we cannot source a claim, we do not publish it.

Jurisdiction

England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have materially different rental law. We state the jurisdiction a page applies to, and we do not silently apply English rules to Scottish or Northern Irish tenancies.

Commercial independence

RentDocs earns money from subscriptions, and a small number of sponsored placements in our partner directory and events directory. Sponsored placements are labelled, their outbound links carry the sponsored attribute, and no advertiser sees or approves editorial copy before publication. Our software comparisons describe competitors accurately, including where they beat us.

Use of AI

We use AI to summarise published news items and to draft first versions of routine explainers. Every AI-assisted page is fact-checked against primary sources by a human before publication, and legal statements, deadlines and figures are verified by hand. AI is never used to generate legal conclusions or to fabricate sources.

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