Hi All,

I'm new to this site only just found it.  I'm letting my house through an agent.  Sadly 2 months back my tenants stopping paying and are under obligation to move out at the end of Feb - 4 months without rent by then.  The agent claims to be following the guidelines Section 8 and Section 21 (but that doesn't pay my rent) so the tenant can't be evicted until the end of Feb.

Has anybody ever used a Debt Collection Agency to recover their outstanding rent?

Cheers

JFM

The managing agents of the property we started renting in the Summer have been shut down by the police for keeping rent payments from landlords and pocketing deposits from tenants. Now we have handed in our notice (directly to the landlord) we understand he now becomes liable for giving us our deposit back, even though it was paid to his managing agent who have spent it themselves rather than putting it into a deposit scheme! Any suggestions - is our landlord likely to realise the unfortunate position he's in or is he in a position to argue he's not liable to pay it?  The managing agent also kept 2 of the rental payments we made to them which they should have passed on to the landlord.

Hello

I privately rented aproperty last year and had 1 year tenancy. I had a lot of issues when I lived there, mainly no heating and hot water for 3 months (landlord wouldnt do repairs)and severe anti-social neighbours. I decided in July to give my landlady notice via email which she wasnt happy with.
To cut a long story short, she has been harrassing me at work saying I have stolen furniture, trashed the house causing £5,000 damage,abadoned the peoperty and kept the keys, and owe several thousand pounds of rent. She is taking me to court, when i saw her claim I was upset as she hasnt been very truthful and all neogiations I have tried with her have failed(before court papers issued )
She claims to have photos of all the damage(roof, stolen lightbulbs etc etc). I have a soliciotr appt on january for advice as i am defending the claim. I never had an inventory either -will that matter?
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks

Hi 

My boyfriend and i split up, so i sent him off to the letting agent with the notice. The contract says after the initial 6 months we must give one months notice. 6 months been and gone, so we gave in notice on 5th December so we can leave 5th January 2008. They have now said as we moved in on the 19th, we can only leave on the 19th. I told them it does not state that in the contract anything about leaving the same day you move in, it says a months notice after the 6 months is up. I have rented loads of places before, with the same wording and never had a problem. They just said even if i go to citizens advice, they will tell me the same thing! Can anyone advise me please?
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Hi all....

This is my first time using this forum and i look forward to your proffessional wisdom.

I have flat which i manage, the landlord does not wish to go through a solicitor and therefore would like me to arrange possesion of the flat, what do i do?

The facts:

Tenant is rent regisitered.
Current arrears 2500+ ( 6months)
I have sent numerous letters, in the past he used to let the arrears build up and then make a payment of half the arrears and thereby starting the whole story again.
The solicitor sent a letter 10 days ago- threatning possession with no further warning


What notice do is serve, after that has been serve do apply to the county court??

Looking forward to the help.

N

Our tenant has become an agent for a utility company and proposes to run this business part time from our property.  He has a full-time shift job outside of the house.  I naturally do not want the address of the house used in any form of advertising and he has told me that he has been allocated a free phone number so that the tel number of the house is not advertised either.  I wish to make an amendment to his tenancy agreement to allow him to do this but state clearly that it remains a residential agreement and that on no account should the address/tel number be advertised.  What is the best way to do this? 
Thanks for reading
Charente

Just a noter from past exsperiance, Get intouch with enviromental health, They will survey the address and with in reason, could suspend the house until the work has been done while the landload pay's for you in a hotel! 

Whats the point of this site?? or maybe it's a landlord thing shut up and rake in the £££'s
 
Message to Admin of site please remove my account,

Hi, had tenant from Dec 2006 on ASH, he is now on periodic. He missed rent in Sept, but payed late after I sent letter. I issued Section 21 on 21st October and again rent was missed on 22nd October. I gave notice and accessed the flat to find he has not been there for a while, all his personal belongings still there, bread and milk dated use bty 17th October. Tried refenece contacts for info but nothing returned. Just heard back from Sussex Police who say he will not be around for a few years! They cant tell me reason because of data protection.

What is my next step, Section 21 expires on 21st December 2007. What can I do with his personal belongings etc?

many thanks
Jimmy

Hi everybody
I've got problem with my former landlord.
despite of  tenancy agreement I can't get him to pay my deposit back. he's not answering my emails or phonecalls, he didn't even view the room after I've moved out
it's 3 weeks now and i don't know where to look for help