What Tenancy Agreement to be used?

[Ted]

We are letting out an annex of our house, it's a self-contained unit (similar to a studio flat and has its own entrance), all utilities supplies are dependant to the main house, so we are letting it out with all bills inclusive. It has no separate door number; our door number is 188, so we are calling it 188A. It's virtually part of our house made to be self-contained.

Can I use the Shorthold Tenancy Agreement? Or should there be a differently type of agreement to be used? Or should we use a kind of agreement for letting it out as a bed-sit?

Any comments will be much appreciated.

[GPEL]

You might potentially be classed as a landlord in residence. If this is the case, use a contractual tenancy agreement instead of the Assured Shorthold Tenancy agreement.

[jam]

the tenant will be ocuupiers with basic protection. This means they are protected from eviction.

you are living in the same building but not sharing living accommdation. To end this type of tenany you would only need to serve a valid Notice to quit i.e 4 weeks notice. There is no defence to this from the tenants. But you would need to obtain a court order if they did not leave at the end of the notice.

You can draw up your own agreement - adapt an assured shorthold agreement but do not call the agreement an assured shorthold as it could potentially give more rights than would be required.