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What remedies are available to a landlord whose tenant fails to pay rent?

May 10, 2022 by Tessa Shepperson Leave a Comment

The dispair of a landlord whose tenant is not paying rent

As the cost of living gradually gets worse, it is increasingly likely that more and more tenants will find themselves unable to pay their rent. Although this is a disaster for the tenants, it is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips and How to Tagged With: Rent Arrears

The End of Section 21 – Possession Claims based on Rent

May 22, 2019 by Tessa Shepperson

the End of Section 21

If removing section 21 is going to work it is clear that improvements have to be made to the eviction process. The government have acknowledged this. So what improvements could be made? In the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis Tagged With: Rent Arrears

Tenant penalties for breaching tenancy rules – rent arrears

September 22, 2016 by Tessa J Shepperson

This is the first post looking at the ten most common tenancy agreement breaches by tenants, as identified by Direct Line in their survey, which I discussed in the introduction to this series. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips for tenants Tagged With: Rent Arrears, Tenant penalties for breaching tenancy rules

Free rent arrears guide for landlords

January 19, 2016 by Tessa J Shepperson

If you have visited other parts of this site, you will no doubt have seen reference to my free three-part rent arrears guide for landlords. This has been around for quite a while, most recently in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: My Services Tagged With: Rent Arrears

What are a landlord's rights to evict a tenant who is underpaying the rent?

December 16, 2014 by Tessa J Shepperson

Here is a question to the blog clinic from Rajiv (not his real name) who is a landlord. I have a tenant who, during the AST, fell into arrears by 5 months claiming she wasn't receiving her housing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Readers problems Tagged With: Eviction, Housing benefit, Rent Arrears

If your tenants leave owing you money – what can you do to get this back?

October 20, 2014 by Tessa J Shepperson

The main reason tenants tend to get evicted is because of rent arrears. But once the tenant is evicted - how can you get paid your outstanding rent? The answer is ‘with great difficulty’. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips and How to Tagged With: general legal, Money Judgement, Rent Arrears, rent matters

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