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| Gardens: New High Fence | Question | | We let a house Cambridge which is currently tenanted. Our tenants have complained to us that the neighbours have erected a high boarded fence (replacing an older and much lower fence). Given it res... More... | | Change of Ownership | Question | | Our client landlord wishes to sell a tenanted property. The tenants have an assured shorthold tenancy. The landlord's mortgagee, the Woolwich Building Society says that the tenants must vacate ... More... | | Redirected Mail | Question | | Our tenants and our office receive large quantities of unwanted mail from previous occupiers. What should we do with it all ?
More... | | Lodgings Register for the Homeless | Question | | I am writing to ask you if it is mandatory that our Company has to be included in a lodgings register for issue to the homeless in the area of Watford, Hertsmere and Three Rivers Council. Twice we ... More... | | Landlord's affair with a tenant | Question | | Could you please advise us on a problem that we have never come across before. One of our landlords lets a house to four people on individual assured shorthold tenancies. Three of the tenants feel ... More... | | Nuisance | Question | | One of my tenants is having to leave a property because of the intolerable behaviour of the owner occupiers of the house next door. This is not the first occupant who has had problems with the neig... More... | | Credit probs caused by tenants council tax arrears | Question | | One of my landlords went out to buy a computer and was refused credit. There was apparently some problem with Council Tax payments for a tenant who used to live in the basement flat at the landlord... More... |
| Hedges | Question | | I have just had a call from someone in the council regarding a property that I own but which is let out to a family. They say that the hedges on the front boundary need to be cut back as they are o... More... | | Injunction against boyfriend | Question | | I have just been told that one of the tenancies that I manage has just gone 'pear shaped' in a big way. About three months ago I let a flat to a chap and his girlfriend. Referencing checks ... More... | | Letting to the local authority | Question | | I have heard that it is possible to let my property to the local authority. How do such schemes work?
More... | | Attachment of earnings | Question | | A colleague of mine has been saying that he recovered some arrears of rent from a former tenant by getting the tenant's employer to pay him. He said that it was called an attachment of earnings... More... | | Leasehold changes | Question | | We undertake block management for a small number of blocks of flats. Our tenants would like to change insurers and have asked how they do this under their new rights. Can they do this ?
More... | | Police raid | Question | | I have just been advised by our Liverpool office that a tenant of one of my landlords was physically raided fairly heavily yesterday in a major drugs raid and considerable damage was done to the fr... More... | | Shared drive | Question | | I have been left a semi-detached house by my aunt. It was built in the 1930's and, whilst it has a garage, it shares a driveway with the house next door. My aunt hasn't had a car for years ... More... |
| Tree nuisance | Question | | We manage a property in South London. Via the tenants, neighbours have complained that Leylandii trees owned by the landlord and which form a boundary are causing subsidence to the neighbours' ... More... | | Irish landlord | Question | | We have just received a number of requests from landlords who have bought property in our area but who live in Ireland. We have found a tenant for one of the properties but we are not acting ... More... | | Succession to a Rent Act tenancy | Question | | One of our more elderly tenants, she has been in the property for more than forty years, has been taken into hospital and she is unlikely to return home. Her son has always lived in the house. He h... More... | | Charity landlord | Question | | A local charity has asked us to take over the day to day management of a number of properties that they own in the area. Are there any particular problems having a charity as a landlord over ... More... | | Death of Tenant | Question | | For many years, we have been renting a small flat to a single elderly gentleman in his sixties. He has an assured shorthold tenancy, which, in September of this year, was just extended for a ... More... | | Assistance dog | Question | | A prospective tenant, after viewing a property, told me that they have an "Assistance Dog". Normally I do not allow cats or dogs but I thought to say "No" in these circumstances... More... |
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