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Does anyone know offhand what the situation is with insurance if you use house/pet sitters for an extended period away from home? These wouldn't be tenants - no rent but there would be meter readings and they would pay the home owner for utilities.

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If they are professionals they should have their own insurance ?

 

https://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/insurance/house-sitting/

 

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Not professionals so own insurance isn’t applicable. It’s a far less formal arrangement I’m considering in order to avoid becoming an accidental landlord but save a house from sitting empty while I make a decision about what to do in the longer term. The proposed sitters are family of friends, returning from living abroad. They could do with few months to settle back here and I could do with the house being occupied.

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Hi

 

The first thing I would say even if it is friends you need to have some sort of written agreement in place to protect yourself.

(what if they refuse to move out of the property at a date you ask?).

 

As they may be there a few months who will pay the Utilities & Council Tax for the property?

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There would be an agreement, my solicitor has shown me an example. Apparently it isn’t as unusual an arrangement as I thought. States who pays for what and how, gives an agreed end date and importantly makes it very clear it isn’t a tenancy.

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Tell your Insurers, it is likely they will remove any extended accidental damage

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Depends on the Insurers as to whether they are happy to continue cover or not. Some Insurers might say they cannot continue the cover, as the house is no longer the same risk, as they Insured at the beginning.

 

You might be faced with having to take out landlord type Insurance, even if there is no shorthold tenancy agreement. The Insurance will still cover all of the same basic perils, but more suited to the property not being lived in by the owner.

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