Letter of claim from no win no fee solicitor?

What a stressful situation, I’m sorry. You need to get legal advice. Surely there’s someone who is covering for your solicitor while he is on holiday? Do you have a legal helpline on your insurance? Call them. Else, call a landlord organisation and get advice.

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I am a retired solicitor albeit neither conveyancing nor L&T but the above is excellent advice. ‘Horses for Courses’ remains true.
Best of luck, you seem to have nasty pieces of work on the other side! Very few of these ambulance chasers have great merit behind them.

Besides the obvious fact that you need to quickly speak to a solicitor, my query is over the appointment of a joint surveyor (or rather lack of). Why can a joint surveyor not be appointed? I act as a Single Joint Expert (SJE) and have been accepting appointments with agreed access (risk assessed, of course). It seems a nonsense to say that an SJE cannot be appointed here – sounds like they are trying it on!

What exactly are the disrepair issues ?

As far as i am aware, any complaints made by a tenant after serving a Notice to quit, can be seen as retaliatory response, and as he has refused you previous visits to inspect your property or to allow repairs to be carried out prior to you serving the notice is a strong evidence that the tenant was not at all cooperating with you from well before you had served him a Section21 notice, which is why you had to evict him for his refusal to allow inspections and carry out maintenance work, so therefore his lack of cooperation is the result of you having to serve him with an eviction notice, hire a good solicitor, or as suggested above, and take this rat to court for his final eviction.

Thanks for the helpful comments. My solicitor is on the case. This is clearly a money making exercise. Mr no win no fee refused to postpone the surveyor (£880 plus vat) he booked before my reply ! I have read many cases where landlords pay out of court. I will live in a tent before I let them manipulate the truth! The repairs relate to mould caused by the tenant and a small hole in the bathroom ceiling. Roofers have attempted repair so as the tenant will not allow access it may or may not be resolved!

Reply to the comment left by Dylan Morris at 21/09/2020 – 10:20
Small hole in bathroom ceiling from a leak,according to the tenant. Access refused so Roofer’s did some work on the chimney as possible remedial work. Mould behind settee pushed against outside wall, tenant using paraffin heater, tumble dryer in bathroom and has built a partition splitting the room into two. All preventing air flow. Tenant refuses to take the partition down. Oh and he has fishing tackle behind the partition as he is a hoarder!11

Barbara, have you contacted your insurance about this? I’m hoping you have the legal expenses on it. I’m sure if you call them they will assign a legal expert. I have had issues in the past and I have found this to be invaluable.