A day in the life of TRO Ben Reeve Lewis. The case of the reckless man and the criminal police Explanation: Tenancy Relations Officers (TROs) work for local council’s providing advice on landlord tenant law and investigating allegations of harassment and Illegal Eviction and prosecuting landlords. All names are false but the stories are true….
A day in the life of TRO Ben Reeve Lewis. The case of the lying man. Explanation: Tenancy Relations Officers (TROs) work for local council’s providing advice on landlord tenant law and investigating allegations of harassment and Illegal Eviction and prosecuting landlords. All names are false but the stories are true. Julius Adewoyin (not real…
A day in the life of TRO Ben Reeve Lewis. The case of the Bad Tempered Woman Explanation: Tenancy Relations Officers (TROs) work for local council’s providing advice on landlord tenant law and investigating allegations of harassment and Illegal Eviction and prosecuting landlords. All names are false but the stories are true. One case has…
If your landlord is trying to evict you and you are finding it hard to find somewhere else to live, you may be entitled to be re-housed by your Local Authority. If so, the most important advice is DON’T MOVE OUT! Because if you do, you will lose any right to rehousing that you have….
Another interesting post by our regular guest blogger, Ben Reeve-Lewis. Margaret Thatcher and the right to buy Some of you may be able to remember when Margaret Thatcher’s government introduced the right to buy scheme back in the 1980s, a mandatory scheme forcing social landlords to sell properties to their tenants at a massive discount….
HMOs and planning law As reported on this blog previously, landlords and landlords organisations were extremely unhappy at the changes which were brought in to the planning laws on 6 April this year by the last government. Suspected to have been introduced largely because of problems in one minister’s constituency with ‘studentification’, Labour’s new rules…
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Oxford leads the way with HMO licensing
HMO Licensing in Oxford Oxford City Council looks to be the first local authority to introduce blanket licensing for HMOs in its area, under new powers granted in April. The new scheme will apply to every HMO in the city (apart from a few self contained flats) and will come into force on 25 October….