Renters' Rights Act, 2026 - What documents should Landlord sent to Tenants?

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Hi,

I am a Rent Now Landlord and tenancies were renewed almost 2 months ago.

As a landlord what documents do I need to send to the tenants regarding Renters’ Rights Act, 2026?

Is it enough to email the documents to the tenants?

Thanks,

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Openrent will send the renters rights act leaflet on the 1st of May. You will be copied in. Nothing else to do.

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I haven’t been copied on the email, do they save this document on Open Rent account? How do we trace it if they have sent it or not?

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@Mahesh1 it’s not yet 1 may so hasn t been sent yet so you won’t have received it (copied in) yet.

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So how do I know if the new notification email sent to my tenants by OpenRent, should i approach on this with OpenRent directly?

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‘Copied in’ means you will receive a copy of it to your email. So tomorrow morning, when you awake, look in your email inbox.

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I have been cc’ed on the email from OpenRent to my tenants providing them with this document. I believe I read that when using a letting agency both the letting agency and the landlord have a responsibility to each send the document to the tenants. Does anyone know of that also applies to OpenRent? Do I need to also send a copy of the information to my tenants or am I definitely covered by what OpenRent has done?

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@Veronique

@mod_harry or @mod_emma can advise from OR perspective. The OR blog says

“To ensure you stay compliant without lifting a finger, OpenRent will automatically serve the mandatory government “Information Sheet” to your tenants on your behalf.”

suggesting they don’t think LLs also need to serve it but it would be good to know if they have legal advice or evidence from the govt confirming that

  1. Guidance says

“If you are a landlord and have a letting agent who manages the property on your behalf, then the agent must provide the Information Sheet to the tenant, even if you have also provided it”.

  1. In this case I “think” Openrent would be considered to be managing on the LL behalf as they do the tenancy creation, serving of docs like epc and gsr at start of tenancy and this is part of that.service. @David122 may have a view.
  2. However it doesn’t do any harm to also send yourself as LL to be safe (I have done so for all my tenants)

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Only the agent needs to serve it. That has now been done. Job done.

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Hi, I can see that OpenRent has issued the RRA PDF to the tenants and stored all of this in the documents section of the tenancy, which is great service by OpenRent IMO.

However I do have one question though, I thought that all parties including any gurantors should also be emailed / notified of the RRA with a copy of the PDF. Is this not the case?

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Tenants only, not guarantors. It would have been sent to all tenants listed on the Openrent tenancy agreement. One email sent to multiple parties, and each name shows in the header.

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@Mike12

Emails were sent by OR to tenants Cc LLs (providing a link doesn’t actually meet the legal req). The guidance says issue to tenants. No mention of guarantors tho agree good idea to send to them too. And to all letting agents.

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Main thing is the government Information Sheet must be issued to the tenants named on the tenancy; emailing is fine provided you can demonstrate delivery so save a copy in the tenancy documents or take a screenshot as proof, i’ve found that stops aggro later. OpenRent say they’ll serve it and cc landlords so check the tenancy documents section and your inbox, guarantors aren’t required by the guidance but its not a bad idea to send them a copy too.

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