Is there a different agreement for a room in an HMO?
Yes — a room let uses a separate template that grants the room plus shared use of the common parts, rather than the whole property.
When a property's letting type is By room, Tenarize generates a different document, not a variant of the standard one. The grant clause is scoped to the room and the shared common parts, and the obligations around communal areas are written accordingly.
It also carries three things the whole-property agreement has no reason to:
- A house in multiple occupation clause naming the manager and their contact details, the licence and its occupancy limit, and the landlord's duties under the Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation (England) Regulations 2006.
- Fire safety obligations on the tenant — keeping escape routes clear, and not interfering with fire doors, alarms, emergency lighting or extinguishers.
- Council tax handled correctly for a room let. Where each occupier has a tenancy of only part of the property, it's an HMO for council tax and the *owner* is liable, not the tenant. The room-only agreement says so rather than telling the tenant to open an account they can't open.
Everything else works the same way — preview and clause editing, optional clauses, addendum, landlord-then-tenant signing, and the same disclaimer.
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Not legal advice
These answers describe how Tenarize works and summarise the law in England as the product implements it. They are not legal advice about your situation, and the law changes. For free independent help, Citizens Advice and Shelter both cover renting in England; for anything unusual or contested, take advice from a solicitor.
Tenarize does not currently support Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, whose tenancy regimes are different.