Landlord Law Blog Clinic

Do you have a landlord and tenant law problem?  Are you finding it hard to get an answer?  Why not try the Landlord Law Blog Clinic?

Tip – Short questions are FAR more likely to get answered than long ones …

Landlord Law Blog Clinic form

Write your problem in the form below, complete the other fields and send it off. We don't promise to publish it, and we don't promise that you will get an answer, but you never know your luck!

Please note though that (if your question gets answered) the people answering will be doing this as a gesture of good will. If they felt that they could be held legally liable for any problems that might arise from a wrong answer given by mistake, no-one would give any answers.

So it is therefore a condition of submitting a question that you agree that that you will not hold any person answering responsible for any losses or problems you may experience as a result of the answers given.

If you send a question you will be deemed to have agreed to this.

See also the disclaimer in the footer of this blog.

Needless to say you will also, by using this form to send us details of your problem, be deemed to have given your consent to your problem being published on the Landlord Law Blog.

We will not publish your email, or your name if you would prefer us not to. See the question about this below.

Finally - we get a lot of questions in the clinic and cannot publish them all. If your question is published, it probably won't be for a few weeks. Keep checking the blog, we will try to write to you if your question gets asked but cannot guarantee this.

If you need an answer now >> click here.

*** Note that there is a bit of a backlog at the moment so although I may answer your question it will not be for a while. Tessa ***

***Make sure you copy your question before you click the button below - sometimes the site defaults to the home page without submitting your question so you may need to try again***
  • Be concise. Long rambly questions are less likley to be chosen.
    If you do not agree to us using your name we will make one up, and say that it is not your real name.
    If your answer is yes, we will email you about this. Pictures MUST be in electronic format - png, jpg or gif.
    You don't have to provide a picture so don't worry if you don't have one.
    Landlord Law is my subscription information service. You can read more about it here.
  • Use this box if you have any comments on the Landlord Law Blog or suggestions for future posts you would like us to do.
Recent Blog Clinic posts:

A tenant has money deducted from her bank account by way of a penalty for rent arrears at a time when she is not in arrears! What can she so?[more]

Here is a question to the blog clinic from Barbara (not her real name): Some individuals in our street are renting from a private landlord. They have [more]

Tenants have deducted a full months rent after a series of minor problems at their property. Are they entitled to do this?[more]

Tenants insisting on using unsafe boiler after gas check

What should you do if your tenants insist on using a boiler which the annual gas inspection has shown to be unsafe?[more]

Questions about using section 21

Two questions about section 21 - when you serve the notice on a tenant and what you can do about suing them if they don't pay rent[more]

How can this tenant get her deposit back?

Here is a question to the blog clinic from Rose who is a tenant My boyfriend and I moved into a flat in June 2011, our tenancy went less than smoothly[more]

What is the landlords liability if the tenants ask for a new lock as recommended by a security expert, she refuses, and they are then burgled?[more]

Can the freeholders dictate who I let my flat to?

A landlord is losing money due to the interference of his freeholders who insist on vetting his tenants. Can they do this?[more]

Landlord threatens to live in a caravan on front lawn

After serving his section 21 notice a tenant's landlord proposes an alternative to court proceedings - but is it legal?[more]

Tenant unable to move in as no heating – what are her remedies?

A tenant refuses to move in to a property as there is no heating or hot water but is being told by the agents that she must pay rent[more]

Landlord unhappy about adjudication decision on black mould

Tenants caused mould damage by failing to use the extractor fan provided but My Deposits adjudicator found for the tenants. Why is this?[more]

What should tenants do if their landlord fails to carry out essential repairs. Are the agents liable? Can they deduct the cost of repaid from their[more]