Tell your landlord about problems with your tenancy documents

Use this service to create a letter to send your landlord because they’ve either:

• given you the wrong paperwork for a private residential tenancy
• included unfair terms in the tenancy agreement

Check the tenancy paperwork a landlord must give you for a private residential tenancy.

If you’re unsure if you have a private residential tenancy, check what type of tenancy you have.

What the letter tells your landlord

The letter gives your landlord 28 days’ notice to put things right.

It warns them you can apply to the First-tier Tribunal (Housing and Property Chamber) if they do not.

Check what the tribunal can do if your landlord gives you the wrong tenancy documents.

What you’ll need

To create this letter you’ll need:

• your name
• the name of anyone you want to act for you
• the property’s address
• your landlord’s name and address
• the letting agent’s name and address, if there is one
• details of what's wrong with the tenancy documents
• to say if you want compensation, called a payment order

Create the letter online

You can use our online form to create the letter. This will automatically work out the notice period for you. You’ll be able to download the completed letter to send to your landlord.

You must complete the full form. You cannot save and return to it.

We do not store any of the details you enter. Find out more about our use of data.

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Download a template letter

You can download a template letter to print and fill in.

Download the ‘tenant notification to landlord of intention to apply to First-tier Tribunal’ letter on gov.scot.