Local authority tells tenants not to leave the property?
3 years ago | 182 comments
Served S21 and tenants are still refusing to leave the property?
12:04 AM, 28th July 2023, 3 years ago
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Hello, can anybody help and advise with this situation, please? We have sold our tenanted property and the tenants refuse to leave (as suggested to them by the local council). We served a section 21 and they still refuse to leave on the prescribed date. Our insurance provides legal cover to begin eviction proceedings and having provided all documentation, our solicitor is telling us that the only issue is that the ‘How to Rent’ guide was issued to our tenants via email and this should only have been issued via this method ‘by agreement’ which my letting agents, apparently, did not receive.
All agreements were signed electronically by our tenants so they naturally assumed it would be OK to send them the ‘How to Rent’ by the same method but the solicitor is saying that if we go to court, this may be an issue. Has anybody experienced this before and can anybody provide any advice or guidance on what we can do?
Thank you,
Tony
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