Easy Law. It seemed a doodle when I thought of it. Write about law for ordinary people and make it easy to understand. However it is actually really hard to do. The first articles, for module one and the first week of module two, were relatively straightforward as I had already written about those topics…
Here is a question to the blog clinic from Georgina who is a landlord My question is have a changed the lock unlawfully and gained possession of my property? Back in November I was given a possession order by the county court and the bailiff were due to come in about 2 weeks ago. Due…
A week of very hard work on the Easy Law for Landlords course this week. It was all plain sailing up to module two week two and then I hit two hard topics. Trusts/Equity and then agency law. I am now on module three part 1 – land law! I am doing my best to…
If you want to know the sort of problems that landlords can get themselves into, see this email I recieved from a Landlord Law Blog reader. It has been edited to remove identifying names and places. Our estate agents arranged for council tenants to live in our property but it has taken around £15,000 of…
Here is a question for the blog clinic from Susan who is a landlord: My tenant – in the middle of the second of a three year tenancy agreement – looks after the house brilliantly, BUT nearly every month he asks for something to be replaced or repaired or redecorated. I have even added an…
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John Murray of Emsleys Solicitors and Residential Property Tribunal Chair will be taking part in the… [more]
This landlords letting agent told him the tenant had left the property in good order when in fact he… [more]
Introducing Simon Parrott of Sharman Law solicitors who will be helping me with the agency law eleme… [more]
This landlord's tenant has moved out early. He has been told he cannot claim under his rent guarant… [more]
The 8th May you may ask? What happened to Monday? Monday, you may remember was a Bank Holiday. A r… [more]
Ben confesses to his heavy metal past before discussing jugaad and the bedroom tax and complaining a… [more]
A letting agent is charging a release fee even though they have not protected the deposit. What are… [more]
Not all tenancies are the same and your rights can very quite dramatically according to what sort of… [more]
Now is probably not a good time to bring a claim for possession through the courts. Bog standard cla… [more]
Here is a question to the blog clinic from Salvina: My mother has been renting out a 2 bedroom flat,… [more]
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Ben Reeve Lewis Friday Newsround #55
[Ben Reeve Lewis is seeing toothbrush moustache's everywhere now ..] A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away…….well, the early 1990s at the bottom of the Old Kent Road, (don’t get too excited) I was shop steward and deputy housing convenor of Lewisham NALGO, representing the homelessness unit. I was loosely aligned to Militant (never…