Leonora Eddolls, Author at Property118

Council turns to private landlords to house benefit tenants

16th February 2026, 2 months ago

For the fixed term ... That means at the end of that, you are on your own....

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Landlord Wants Higher Rent After Learning I Work From Home – Is This Even Legal?

16th August 2025, 8 months ago

Sorry to be a party pooper but is you working from home even legal? Is it a leasehold flat? Have you seen the lease? I expect not because why would you. You're a tenant and the lease is a legal...

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Is It Time to Change the Narrative?

14th July 2025, 9 months ago

I appreciate the concerns and the stories but I am a reader as I am interested in possible solutions. I read a few other blogs and some are far more solution focused. I want to stay in the game and...

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Does requiring landlords to publish their address breach the Human Rights Act 1998?

15th October 2024, 1 year ago

This will not happen. Landlords are also victims of domestic abuse. They are also victims of stalking and sexual offences. Some of them are criminal lawyers and social workers and police. All have very good reasons to not want address...

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Section 21 rejected by solicitor without full explanation?

9th July 2024, 2 years ago

The solicitor will only reply if the tenant gives him permission AND if the tenant has paid their legal fees bill. So assume you are ok unless you get other info. Often people use solicitors as a scaremongering tactic, but...

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I’m not a charity: Is it time to issue a Section 21?

4th July 2024, 2 years ago

As others have said the interest being charged is extortion so I would use the actual owed rent as your base line. I have dealt with social workers and they will utilise everything in their arsenal to keep the tenant...

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Tenant deductions for defrosting a large freezer?

3rd July 2024, 2 years ago

My uncle has let to students for 20 years. The end of tenancy clean is always done by an external firm and they do all of these niggly things. They charge by the hour and these costs are passed on...

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How to remove tenant who is subletting the property?

29th April 2024, 2 years ago

I think you need to serve a section 21 to the named tenants AND a section 8 to the actual tenants because if memory serves me correct you have unwittingly become the legal landlord of the subtenants by proxy. Definitely...

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