HMO management software for landlords
Rentap helps landlords in England run shared houses and HMOs room by room: who has paid, which licence or certificate is due next, and every tenancy’s paperwork in one place. £2 per rental a month, and your tenants use it free.
Licence and safety dates on one calendar
Your HMO licence, gas safety record, EICR, EPC, fire alarms and fire risk assessment, with reminders before each one runs out and the certificate kept with the house.
Rent, room by room
Each room has its own tenancy and rent. See what’s due and overdue across every house, record payments with proof, and split shared bills between the rooms.
Ready for the new rules
Rent increases with the earliest date under the 52-week rule, Right to Rent checks with a share code, and the (PRS) landlord database dates for each house, worked out from its postcode.
What counts as an HMO
GOV.UK describes an HMO (house in multiple occupation) as a home rented to at least three people who are not one household but share the kitchen or bathroom. A mandatory licence is needed when five or more people from more than one household live there. Councils can also license smaller shared houses. Check with your council.
Rentap doesn’t apply for licences or decide whether your house is an HMO. Your council does. This isn’t legal advice.
Everything that's included
One plan, every feature, for £2 per rental a month.
- Rooms and tenancies
- Rent due, overdue and paid: bank transfer, cash or another way
- Proof files on payments, charges, credits and shared bills
- Moving a tenant to another room
- Notice and ending a tenancy
- Rent increases
- Deposits
- Room inventories: start and end of tenancy, with photos
- Room history: every past tenancy
- E-signatures for tenancy agreements, with no fee per agreement
- Send certificates and documents to tenants, with a dated record
- Right to rent share codes and follow-up reminders
- Shared bills split between the rooms
- Expenses
- Issues and repairs
- Compliance reminders
- (PRS) Landlord database dates and readiness checklist
- Web access for tenants, by invite
- Analytics
- Making Tax Digital figures for each quarter
- Sharing with your accountant: Excel, receipts and live access
- English and Turkish
Is my shared house an HMO?
Usually, if three or more people who aren’t one household share the kitchen, bathroom or toilet. A household is broadly a family. The legal test is in section 254 of the Housing Act 2004, and your council has the final say.
When does an HMO need a licence?
A mandatory licence is needed when five or more people from more than one household live there and share facilities. Councils can also require licences for smaller shared houses (additional licensing) or all private lets in an area (selective licensing).
Can Rentap remind me when my HMO licence runs out?
Yes. Add the licence to the house’s compliance calendar with its end date, and Rentap reminds you 60, 30 and 7 days before. A licence lasts up to five years.
Does it work for a small HMO with three or four tenants?
Yes. It works the same for three rooms or thirty. A four-room house is £8 a month after the free month.
Do my tenants pay to use Rentap?
No. Tenants you invite use it free to see their own rent and payments and to report repairs. Only the landlord pays.
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