Here’s a polished version of your message:
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are planning to rent out our property to students. The house is a mid-terrace property with three bedrooms. We also have an extension, and the first reception room has been converted into an additional bedroom. The property has two toilets.
Therefore, we are considering it as a 4-bedroom house (three double bedrooms and one box room).
Could you please advise how many students would be permitted to live in the property?
The property is located in Redbridge.
Kind regards
@Yasaswy
Depends if you have an hmo license or not doesn’t it?
Shelter also publish advice on what counts as overcrowding legally
Source: Shelter - The housing and homelessness charity Shelter Legal England - Overcrowding - Shelter England
Good luck
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you gotta love AI haven’t you…
buddy if you need to use AI to write a message on this forum, you will find renting out an HMO for students a total nightmare that AI will not wake you up from. Don’t do it. Speak to an agent.
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@tatemono
Actually seems like we get so many semi garbled or incomplete posts on this fora where we have to ask for clarification that it’s nice to get clear ones sometimes..
Not everyone writes as clearly and confidently as others.
Agree renting an HMO to students will need a bit of knowledge and training if @Yasaswy new to it..
Best
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true… but pasting in the actual AI message to them rather than just the message itself? That’s nothing to do with whether you can write clearly and confidently.
One thing you def need if you’re going to be a successful LL is attention to detail.
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Apologies , I am person who wants clear communication.. so , I give a voice message and ask AI to write it for me and edit my punctuation and save a lot of my time .
I did ask it on Redbridge but there also its AI coming to the rescue 
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We have students asking for our property but , I am a bit hesitant as the house is not a HMO and not sure how Many might occupy when we are not around?
I would strongly advise you to speak to a high street letting agent. They will know better than you what regulations will apply in your area. If you have never let property before, then you need to know that it is very complex.
For example, they might appear to be students but actually want to run a cannabis farm. 
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@Yasaswy
Get it licensed as an hmo first otherwise you can have 3 who are not the same household and be fined £40,000.plus have to pay them back up to 2 years rent
Agree with @tatemono - get an agent. If after 1st year you are confident and know what you are doing you can always switch to diy
Big fines for mistakes 40k and paying back up to 2y rent
Worth reading up and doing some training from a landlord association
This checklist is the basics but doesnt cover the detail of what you have to do for hmos or students
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Sanctions where an offence has been committed
A landlord who fails to obtain a licence could be subject to a rent repayment order.
Find out more about rent repayment orders.
A landlord who fails to obtain a licence or breaches the condition of a licence could be subject to a banning order.
Find out more about banning orders.
Landlords who are convicted can be punished by a fine.[14] As an alternative to prosecution, a local authority can impose a civil penalty of up to £40,000.[15] The maximum civil penalty for offences committed before 1 May 2026 is £30,000.
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The box room may be too small to let. Has to be at least 6.51sqm. A double room can be let to 2 people if its at least 10.22sqm, but most students dont want to share unless they’re a couple. 5 people is a mandatory licensable HMO. 3 or 4 people is still an HMO, but will only be licensable if the Council has introduced Additional Licensing. Check also whether the Council has an Article 4 directive in place requiring planning consent for more HMO’s. Don’t spend any more money till you’ve checked this as if they have, you may struggle to get consent.
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With all due respect, you must be able to properly communicate with your tenants without the use of any translation devices or AI. I will definitely avoid renting from a landlord with whom I cannot have a natural conversation with in the same language. I had the experience of renting from a landlord whose English was a botched one, and he turned out to be the most aggresive and authoritarian landlord ever, who used to shout at and threaten my family and me in his native language instead (We never knew what he said, but it was stressful nonetheless).
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Thanks to everyone who have responded to my query and for the valuable advice and everything that has been mentioned 
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I will surely consider all the responses seriously.
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