Further to my earlier post on this topic, I have spotted an interesting item on the BBC News web-site. This gives more information about the signs to spot a cannabis factory, and is well worth reading, plus there is an informative video. Generally though landlords need to do regular inspections, and if a tenant consistently…
I have recently been given information about two surveys in the private rented sector. First survey – credit checks The first survey is perhaps the more serious of the two. The Letting Protection Service have commissioned a survey of 1,389 private landlords which shows that most landlords do not carry out proper checks before letting…
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 (because, surprise…
You have to be so careful when drafting possession claims not to give any opportunity for the opposition to raise a defence. I issued proceedings recently for a client using the accelerated procedure. The notice had been personally served by the clients managing agent by leaving it at the property, so I put in the…
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We have all known it happen. A tenant says that he is going, and then at the last moment changes his mind and decides that he would like to stay on after all, actually. Thereby causing the landlord (and any tenants who he had lined up to move in) huge inconvenience. Although the landlord will…