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The Landlord Law Blog from Tessa Shepperson
Tessa is an English solicitor who specialises in residential landlord and tenant law.
Tessa's legal services are provided via her online service Landlord Law. This service is provided as part of Tessa's legal practice TJ Shepperson, which is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority No 78852.
Note that any readers wishing to instruct Tessa professionally to do legal work, should do this via the Landlord Law service. Tessa's one-to-one legal work is now limited to the fixed fee services provided exclusively to Landlord Law annual members, plus Tessa also has a separate Lodger Landlord web-site with guidance for people taking in lodgers.
Tessa is a members of the Norfolk Independent Law Network, consisting of sole practitioner solicitors in Norfolk. She is also a director of Your Law Store
The purpose of this blog is to provide information, comment and discussion. Although Tessa, or guest bloggers, may from time to time, give helpful comments to readers' questions, these can only be based on the information given by the reader in his or her comment, which may not contain all material facts. Any comments or suggestions provided by Tessa or any guest bloggers should not therefore be relied upon as a substitute for legal advice from a qualified lawyer regarding any actual legal issue or dispute.
Nothing on this website should be construed as legal advice or perceived as creating a solicitor-client relationship.
Please note that any opinion expressed by a guest blogger is his or hers alone, and does not necessarily reflect the views of Tessa Shepperson, or the other writers on this blog.
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The tenant’s dilemma
The tenant’s dilemma, a new report from the Citizens Advice Bureau, states that tenants are put off complaining about their landlords failure to keep their property in proper repair because their landlord might retaliate by evicting them under the section 21 ‘loophole’. Government figures indicate, they say, that nearly one million private rented homes fail…