Here is a question to the blog clinic from Peter who is a landlord: I had a tenant who left her flat, went back to Nigeria, never paid rent for three months and through a friend promised to send rent … [Read more...]
Landlord and tenant law – implied surrender explained
Implied surrender/ surrender by operation of law - what is it? Implied surrender (which I mentioned also here) is a useful rule in landlord and tenant law. In most cases if a tenant fails to give … [Read more...]
Urban Myth – you don’t need to get a possession order if you use an abandonment notice
When I started acting for landlords I had never heard of abandonment notices. I suspect that most lawyers reading this won’t have heard of them either. So far as I am aware, they are not mentioned in … [Read more...]
Murphys law
My client I wrote about yesterday contacted me today. It looks as if the tenants are moving out after all. Too late though to save him the cost of my drafting up his paperwork. But of course if we … [Read more...]
The Abandonment problem
Its tough on landlords. They provide the property, for which they are normally still making mortgage and other payments, and they are responsible for its upkeep and maintenance (for which they can be … [Read more...]