As of 13 August 2026, AI can draft a lodger agreement for your home.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the relevant GOV.UK guidance on renting out a room in your home and note which UK nation the property is in.
   2. Gather the names, property address, room description, shared facilities, start date, rent, payment date, bills, deposit, proposed notice terms and house rules.
   3. Paste the prompt and your facts into a chatbot, then ask it to list any missing facts before it drafts the agreement.
   4. Answer the missing-fact questions and request the agreement and its checking table in plain English.
   5. Compare the draft's classification, deposit wording, notice wording and responsibilities with the current GOV.UK guidance for your UK nation.
   6. Change or remove any term you have not agreed, then ask the chatbot to produce a clean version without adding new terms.
   7. For a disputed arrangement, unusual deposit or notice provision, or any uncertainty about whether the person is a lodger or tenant, send the facts and draft to a solicitor before signing.
   8. Both parties should read the final agreement, correct the names and terms, sign and keep a copy.

   Prompt

   Draft a plain-English lodger agreement for a home in England and Wales using only the facts I provide below. First identify whether the arrangement appears to be a lodger arrangement with a resident landlord, or whether the facts may instead point to a tenancy or another arrangement. Do not decide disputed legal questions with confidence and do not invent legal rules, dates or obligations. Flag any point that needs checking against current GOV.UK guidance or with a solicitor.
   
   Include sections for:
   - the people and property
   - the fact that the landlord lives in the property, if that is confirmed
   - the room and shared areas
   - rent, payment date and included bills
   - any deposit and how it will be handled
   - the start date and whether the arrangement is fixed-term or rolling
   - notice and ending the arrangement
   - access to the room and repairs
   - cleaning, guests, smoking, pets, noise and other house rules
   - safety, keys and shared facilities
   - signatures and dates
   
   After the draft, provide a table with three columns: agreed fact, missing decision, and legal or practical point to check. Keep the agreement neutral and do not add terms that I have not approved. State clearly that this is not professional advice.
   
   Facts and preferences:
   - Location in the UK: [England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland]
   - Is the landlord living in the property: [yes or no]
   - Landlord name: [name]
   - Lodger name: [name]
   - Property address: [address]
   - Room and shared areas: [details]
   - Start date: [date]
   - Fixed-term or rolling arrangement: [details]
   - Rent and payment date: [details]
   - Bills included: [details]
   - Deposit: [details]
   - Notice preference: [details]
   - House rules: [details]
   - Access, keys and repairs arrangements: [details]
   - Any other agreed terms: [details]

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.