As of 13 August 2026, AI can review your UK student accommodation contract.

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 contract and the accommodation offer, remove unnecessary personal data such as your student number and bank details, and keep the page or section headings visible.
   2. Gather the facts the contract review needs: provider type, accommodation address or room type, contract dates, rent, deposit, bills, guarantor position and the specific clause or concern that prompted the review.
   3. Paste the prompt into a chatbot and upload or paste the complete contract, followed by the accommodation offer and your factual context.
   4. Ask the chatbot to quote every flagged clause with its page or section, and separate what the contract says from its explanation and from points requiring professional advice.
   5. Compare each summary and quote against the original document, checking the rent, dates, fees, notice terms, deposit wording, guarantor obligations and any joint-liability clause character by character.
   6. Check the factual legal points against current GOV.UK guidance and ask the provider or university accommodation office to answer the chatbot's list of precise questions in writing.
   7. Send the contract and the flagged clauses to a UK solicitor before signing if there is a large financial commitment, a guarantor or joint liability, a disputed fee, an early-termination problem, or wording you cannot interpret.

   Prompt

   Review the UK student accommodation contract I paste below. This is document analysis, not professional advice. Do not decide that a clause is enforceable or unlawful; instead, identify wording that may need a UK solicitor or an official process to assess. Use only the contract and the facts I provide, and do not invent missing terms.
   
   For every point, quote the exact wording and give the page or section if available. Produce:
   1. A plain-English summary of the parties, accommodation, contract type, term, rent, payment dates, deposit, bills and other charges.
   2. A table of important obligations for me and for the provider.
   3. Clauses about early termination, notice, renewal, replacement tenants, refunds and cancellation.
   4. Clauses about repairs, access to the room, inspections, house rules, guests, noise, damage, cleaning and loss of belongings.
   5. Any guarantor, joint-liability, indemnity, penalty, fee, rent-increase, deposit-deduction or insurance wording that could create significant risk.
   6. Anything unclear, internally inconsistent or missing, with a precise question I should ask the provider.
   7. A separate list of points I can check against current GOV.UK guidance and points that need a UK solicitor, university accommodation adviser or other qualified professional.
   8. A short list of actions before signing, without telling me to sign or not sign.
   
   Context: [university or college, if relevant]; [provider type, such as university, private halls or landlord]; [contract dates]; [weekly or total price]; [whether a guarantor is involved]; [specific concern].
   
   I have removed personal details. Here is the contract:
   [PASTE THE CONTRACT TEXT OR UPLOAD THE DOCUMENT]

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