I always say that you should only ever apply for a possession order if you have a mandatory ground, but it is only when you see what can happen if you don’t, that you realise how very important it is.
What do I mean? When you go to court for a possession order, your claim [...]
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Tie the Judge down with a mandatory ground
Rent review clauses – be careful, be very careful …
Landlords, be very careful when increasing rent using a rent review clause in your tenancy agreement. Registered Social Landlord Riverside came a cropper a while back when tenants challenged the validity of four sucessive rent increases they had made under a rent review clause, because they had not used the rent review date given [...]
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You can’t keep a devious tenant down. I read in one of my legal journals of a tenant who issued legal proceedings against his landlord and gave as the landlord address for service of the court paperwork, the building where his own flat was. When the landlord failed to respond to the proceedings [...]
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