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Tenant insists on gas fire replacement!
Hi, first-time landlady here, hoping for advice. When my tenants moved in 3 years ago there was a gas cooker, fire and central heating. The cooker was old and so when they complained it wasn’t...
Letter of claim from no win no fee solicitor?
I served a S21 on my tenant. Since then, he has been on a mission to hurt me! He has now got a no win no fee solicitor who has sent me a letter of claim for disrepair.
The tenant has refused access to...
Is this a DWP system failure or just an excuse?
To cut (an inevitably long story short!) I had a tenant who declared a change of address away from my property completely unknown to me. As a result, the Managed Payment to Landlord (MPTL) arrangement...
My first ever working tenant!
I have a flat to rent and had an enquiry from a single lady (with son aged 13) who will be working, but whose rent will be topped up by the DWP. All of my tenants to date in the area have never worked...
Section 8 Antisocial Behaviour?
We have a tenant who has just been raided for the third time in six months and who is noisy, deals drugs, leaves crap everywhere, and we need them gone.
In the current circumstances what are our best...
Ex-tenant threatening legal action over parking?
A tenant that has recently vacated one of our properties left the place in such a state that we said we would need to keep some of his deposit to cover deep cleaning and removal of many items left...
Electric safety certificate/CCU/fuse board...
Hello, I have a number of properties where the fuse board/CCU is not in a metal cabinet or metal frame. In fact on some certified electricians have over the years replaced the old board with plastic...
Could be waiting until the latter half of 2021 to regain...
On the 5th of June 2020, the UK Government announced that it would be suspending all housing possession cases in the courts for a further 2 months. Recently, this was extended again taking the total...
Making a property a Freehold / Leasehold...
Hello, Please can anyone point me where to look on the internet (or Property118) where I can read up about how to turn a Freehold Property ie a property with just 1 Land Registry Title into two titles...
Tenant being evicted to enable “massive...
A tenant (local to us but not one of ours) has been advised that she has to vacate to enable “massive repairs”.
I do not currently have details of what these massive repairs entail, but...