Landlord Help

Landlord Action can offer you as a landlord help with our three-step service to evict tenants. The first is the serving of the legal notice (by hand delivery and within 48 hours of being appointed). In many cases, that alone is enough to make the tenant pay up. This costs the landlord £98 plus VAT.

Evict Tenant

How do you evict a tenant who does not pay rent?

Let Landlord Action offer you as a landlord help in evicting bad tenant / tenants. Our three step service follows the correct legal procedures for evicting tenants who do not agree to their tenancy agreement.

Tenant eviction

No landlord wants a Tenancy Agreement to end in tenant eviction but with an estimated 10% of the market classed as bad tenants, if you lease properties over a number of years, then you're likely to encounter a problem tenant. There's plenty of landlord advice around regarding how to safeguard yourself against bad tenants but if you're already facing a difficult situation with a problem tenant you may well have to resort to tenant eviction.

Tenant eviction is a tricky business and can be quite a drawn out process. Depending on how quickly you respond to a problem tenant, you could face a 6-month struggle to achieve tenant eviction. The key to avoiding this situation is getting the right advice as soon as you become aware of a bad tenant.

It is essential you follow the correct legal process for tenant eviction - a court could throw out your claim for repossession if you are seen to be harassing your tenant or acting outside of the law. In fact any landlord seen to be behaving in a prejudiced or intimidating manner can be tried for a criminal act under the Tenant & Landlord Act, regardless of the actions of the bad tenant.

Achieving a successful tenant eviction is therefore dependant on getting the right legal advice no matter what the problem. For example, in the event of rent arrears of 8 weeks or more, you are entitled to apply for a Section 8 notice. However, no matter how much you are owed, any further actions on the part of the landlord to retrieve monies owed before the end date of that notice is seen as a criminal act.

So how do you handle a bad tenant that does not stick to their tenancy agreement? 1 answer: Landlord action Specialist in landlord help.

Problem tenant

With the huge boom in the buy-to-let market of the last few years there are more landlords in the rental market than ever. This has lead to an aggressive market in some areas where landlords are forced to be less discerning when it comes to choice of tenants in order to secure their income. Without the proper vetting procedures in place this can in some cases lead to having problem tenants in your property.

Problem tenants can cause difficulty with the locality as well as to your property. With noise and drug problems being faced by many landlords today, it is essential to weight up the benefits of having an empty property for a few months rather than letting it to the first applicant without due consideration.

In order to safeguard you, your property and the neighbourhood around your property against problem tenants, it pays to ensure you are in receipt of a reliable reference for each of your tenants and take an adequate deposit before the Tenancy begins. Staying on top of your paperwork regarding the property and payments made to you is another golden rule of avoiding problem tenants.

Any payments missed should be chased immediately and in the event of damaged or faulty equipment in the property being reported by the tenant, you should oversee its immediate repair. Failure to do so will give problem tenants a reason not to pay rent and from here the situation can escalate to a tenant eviction.

If you are already facing problems with problem tenants make sure you get the right legal advice with regards to your Tenancy Agreement and serve a Section 21 or Section 8 as soon as possible. If the problem tenant has neither vacated the property or repaid rent arrears by the end date of either notice you should proceed to court.

Bad Tenant

Both Norcliffe and Sundaresan were recommended by lettings agents to seek Landlord help from Landlord Action, a new company founded by Johnathan Chippeck to give landlords with bad tenant / tenants an efficient service at an affordable pre-set price. In both cases the company has managed to evict the bad tenant / tenants.

Landlord Action has been able to offer Landlord help for many years, our three step service for the eviction of bad tenants is showcased in our latest press release.