Our housing advice line gets stacks of queries about renting privately. A lot of the PRS cases that come through to me and my colleagues could have been prevented at the start of the tenancy if the tenant or the landlord was better prepared.
We get a lot of calls in September and October each year from people who've signed up to a tenancy that hasn't worked out. The reasons that people have for wanting to get out of agreements are understandable, some common issues are: