The guides describe the law for private landlords in England. They are not legal advice, and we do not ask you to take our word for a figure: every one links to the provision it comes from, every page says when it was last checked, and a machine refuses to publish a page that breaks the rules below.
26 guides · 130 cited government pages re-read daily, last on 15 October 2026 · latest check of a guide 15 October 2026 · roadmap verified 15 October 2026
A penalty, a deadline, a notice period or a date on a guide must come from one of two places: the text of the Act or regulations on legislation.gov.uk, or official guidance on GOV.UK (including justice.gov.uk for court procedure). Nothing is taken from a news report, a forum, a trade body's summary or another website, however reputable. Where the law and GOV.UK guidance differ, the guide says which is which: the £65 register fee, for example, is described as a GOV.UK announcement because it is not in the regulations.
Housing law in England is changing in stages. A guide may not describe a provision as the law unless it is in force on the date the page was checked. Anything announced, drafted, consulted on or passed-but-not-commenced must say so in terms: "not yet in force", "draft regulations", "proposal". The Private Rented Sector Database, Awaab's Law for private tenancies, the Decent Homes Standard, the landlord ombudsman and EPC band C are all in that category as at 15 October 2026, and each guide that mentions them carries a "Recent and coming changes" table drawn from a single verified list, never retyped.
Each guide is written as data, and a program checks it before any page is produced. The build refuses to write anything if a single check fails. The checks include:
Every government page a guide cites is fingerprinted. Once a day a program re-reads all 130 of them, plus the 30 pages and videos the guides link to on BundleCreator, and compares. If a cited page changes, or a link stops answering, an alert is raised and the affected guides are re-checked before the next release. A guide's "checked" date moves only when a person has re-read the sources, not when the page was last edited.
Before a guide is published, and after the gate has passed, a second pass reads every statutory citation against the current text on legislation.gov.uk and reports anything overstated, out of date, unsourced or written as advice. The corrections are applied before the page goes live and the verification notes at the foot of each guide's source file record what was changed. This review is thorough and documented; it is not a solicitor's opinion, and the guides do not claim to be.
The guides are written and published by Stevie Hayes, founder of Steleo Publishing Ltd, the company behind ComplyWithMe and BundleCreator.co. The same statutory constants drive the ComplyWithMe Landlord app, so a figure in a guide is the figure the app uses to compute a deadline.
If a figure, date or citation on any page is wrong, email info@complywithme.co with "Correction" in the subject and the page address. A confirmed error is fixed in the next build and the guide's checked date is updated. We would rather hear about it than not.
General information about the law in England, written for landlords with a small number of properties. They do not cover your individual circumstances, they are not legal advice, and they are not a substitute for a solicitor where a matter is contested. Statutory penalties are stated as the maximum the law allows; councils and courts decide the amount in a case.
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