Choose your friends wisely, choose your co-tenants very carefully: joint tenants and the private residential tenancy
The Scottish Government guidance note Private Residential Tenancies: Information for Tenants (published 26 April 2017 ) correctly summarises the state of the law in relation to Private Residential Tenancies (PRTs) under the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 when it states
“To end a joint tenancy, all the joint tenants…