What's on the compliance checklist?

Every tenancy gets the same ten-item compliance checklist, with two conditional additions:

• Gas Safety Certificate (CP12) — annually where there are gas appliances. Only a Gas Safe registered engineer can carry out the check.
• Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) — at least every five years.
• Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) — valid ten years, minimum rating E.
• Smoke alarm(s) fitted — at least one on every storey used as living accommodation.
• Carbon monoxide alarm(s) fitted — in any room with a fixed combustion appliance other than a gas cooker.
• Renters' Rights Act Information Sheet provided — given to the tenant before the tenancy is agreed. On an imported tenancy this item is reworded: the deadline for tenants on existing tenancies was 31 May 2026.
• Legionella risk assessment completed — best-practice check of the water systems, per HSE guidance.
• Landlord insurance in place — not a legal requirement, but usually a mortgage condition, and ordinary home insurance rarely covers a let property.
• Deposit protection certificate — confirming you have the scheme's prescribed information ready.
• Tenancy agreement drafted.
• Furniture meets fire safety regulations — added automatically when the property is furnished or part-furnished.

A property let room by room is a house in multiple occupation, and picks up six further items that a single let never needs:

• HMO licence in force — confirming the licence covers this letting, including its occupancy limit and the rooms it permits.
• Fire risk assessment completed — required for the common parts under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and recorded in writing since October 2023.
• Manager's contact details displayed and given to occupiers — regulation 3 of the Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation (England) Regulations 2006. Tenarize puts these in the room-only agreement; the item confirms the notice is up in the house too.
• Escape routes and fire precautions checked — regulation 4 of the same Regulations.
• Common parts, water supply and waste checked — regulations 5, 7 and 9.
• Room sizes meet the statutory minimum — the 2018 Mandatory Conditions Regulations set minimum sleeping-room floor areas where a mandatory licence applies.

Most of these require the document to be attached before the item can be ticked. Legionella, the furniture check and the HMO management items don't, because none of them usually produces a formal certificate — the fire risk assessment does, and is document-gated.

Worth knowing: The alarm items here confirm alarms are *fitted*. Testing them with the tenant present on the day the tenancy starts is a separate legal duty, and it's tracked separately on the move-in checklist.