There have been reasonable efforts made by the previous and present landlords to maintain the building properly.

For the owner, a bank statement and a character reference from a previous landlord will normally suffice.

She understood that the previous landlord did not include this service in the rent.

Tenants said the city had ignored serious problems with the building, just as the previous landlord had.

Make a big issue of how well you got along with your previous landlord.

The agency took the building over from the city after two previous landlords failed to make improvements and allowed drug dealers to move in.

Such owners must now approach their previous landlord (council or housing association) and offer them "first right of refusal".

Instead, he finds out where prospective tenants have rented before and calls their previous landlords.

Someone else may earn the title by checking in more times than the previous landlord.

Tenants said repairs were now done quickly, and that the dealers whom the previous landlord had tolerated have been pushed out.