Glossary of terms

This page explains some of the terms used in the handbook that may be unfamiliar to you.

Assured Tenancy
This is the type of tenancy that housing association tenants have.

Housing Corporation
The organisation set up by the Government to set standards and
regulate what social landlords like WATMOS do.

Management Agreement
The formal agreement that sets out the responsibilities of WATMOS and the TMOs in providing your housing services.

Mutual Exchange
This is where two or more tenants swap homes and tenancies.

Possession Proceedings
This means court action leading to the ending of the tenancy and the
eviction of the tenant.

Quiet Enjoyment
This is the right of a tenant to enjoy the full use of their home free from
interference, harassment or nuisance.

Regulatory Code
This is the set of rules and standards that the Housing Corporation
expect social landlords like WATMOS to work to.

Succession
This is where a relative takes over a tenancy when the current tenant dies.

Sublet
This is where a tenant lets out part of their home to someone else.

TMO Tenant Management Organisation
(an organisation set up by tenants to run their own estates).

Vacant Possession
This means that when you accept a home from WATMOS or when it
is handed back to WATMOS there is no-one else left in the property
and it is available for the free and full use of the tenant or the landlord.

WATMOS
Walsall Alliance of Tenant Management Organisations (the landlord set up by the eight TMOs in Walsall).

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