Section 8 Notice To Quit Form- Evicting Tenants

What is a section 8?

A “section 8 notice to quit” is used to terminate an Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreement during the fixed term because a tenant has breached the agreement (e.g fallen into rent arrears).

A landlord cannot evict their tenant without first obtaining an order for possession from a court. Before applying to the court for this order, the landlord must serve a “Section 8 notice to quit” form on the tenant. The notice states that the landlord intends to seek possession of the property and states the ground or grounds on which possession is sought.

Breach of agreement by tenant

The most common type of breach during the term of the tenancy is for non-payment of rent. However, any breaches of the terms of the tenancy agreement justify possession proceedings (e.g. damage to the property).

In order for the section 8 to be valid, the landlord must rely on specify which grounds set out in Schedule 2 of the Housing Act 1988, the tenant has breached.

How to serve a Section 8 Notice

To start proceedings, you must first inform the tenant, using the section 8 notice, that you wish to seek possession. The Notice of Seeking Possession is issued under section 8 of the Housing Act 1988 and must be served in the prescribed form – ‘section 8′. The notice could be included with a final rent reminder letter.

Any errors made when issuing the section 8 notice (which is extremely common) is likely to delay the landlord gaining possession. That’s why it is always advised to seek legal advise before issuing a section 8.

Service of the Notice

The notice can be served by post or in person. If there is more than one tenant, the notice must be served on all tenants.

The courts will recognise the day of postal service as the day on which the letter would normally have arrived.

It is recommended that a colleague witnesses the sending of the notice. When using postal service, it is recommended that the notice be sent by recorded delivery for proof of delivery, and that a minimum of three working days is allowed for the notice to arrive.

The Grounds For Eviction

The ground you wish to evict your tenant on will need to be stated in the section 8 form.

These Grounds are contained in Schedule 2 HA 1988. The grounds fall into 2 categories:

• Grounds 1-8 (Mandatory) – the court must make the possession Order
• Grounds 9-17 (Discretionary) – the court will make the Order only if it is reasonable to do so.

The amount of notice required to be given to the tenant will vary depending on which Ground the tenant is being evicted on. If the landlord is relying on ground 2, two months’ notice must be given. If the landlord is relying on grounds 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14A, 15 or 17, two weeks’ notice must be given.

Once the Tenant receives the Notice

Once you have issued the section 8 notice on your tenant, you are required to wait until the notice has expired – this is the date you give on the notice. Approximately 80% of tenants leave after being served notice.

If the tenant has not vacated, or paid up any rent arrears by this point, then it will be necessary to start court possession proceedings. This is done by obtaining the appropriate forms from your local court (forms N5andN119) and payment of the appropriate court fee.

In most cases, once a tenant receives the 8 notice, they vacate the property, to avoid any court hearings. However, if this is not the case, the landlord should apply for a possession order from a court.

Here’s more information on Evicting Tenants.

Does serving a Section 8 Guarantee A Possession Order?

Serving a section 8 notice does not guarantee that the court will grant a possession order for the tenant to vacate. It depends on which grounds are relied upon as well as the strength of the the landlord’s argument.

However, Grounds 2 and 8 of a section 8 notice are mandatory, meaning that if a landlord is evicting a tenant that has breached either of those grounds and can prove to the court that the tenant is guilty, then the court MUST be in the favour of the landlord and issue the landlord with a possession order.

Grounds 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14A, 15 and 17 are discretionary grounds, meaning that the court will not necessarily side with the landlord even if he/she can prove that one of the grounds applies. If this is the case, it is at the court’s discretion to determine whether to grant a landlord a possession order. The court will look at the facts and evidence and then make a decision.

If a court is satisfied that a landlord is entitled to possession on one of the grounds, then the court will grant a possession order to take effect within 14 days. In some cases, the court may extend this to six weeks if it will cause the tenant to experience exceptional hardship.

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Dan2010-05-03 14:45:05 Hi

I have a women in my house who was commiting benefit fraud as her boyfriend moved in and now her benefitts have been stopped. The lease agreement run out last month and the agreement isn't even in her name; it's in her last boyfriends name (he left six months ago and left her in there) i said she could stay if she paid a deposit; but that never happened. Is there grounds to re enter the property? 34

sarah2010-05-12 09:46:14 Hi I have 2 new tennants in my property, they have a 6 month assured tennancy agreement, one of them is claiming benefits and has informed the benefits agency that she is living at the house alone. The contract states that the rent needs to be paid on the 1st of every month, both tennants have not paid their rent and cut my calls or dont answer the phone. I called the agent who told me they didnt want to pay the rent that they had been paid from the social. I have also been trying to get a window fixed that wont open as it's a fire hazzard, I have sent repair men to fix the window but as the tenants never called me back I couldnt let them know. The builder couldnt get in so the window remains a fire risk problem. I have tried to call them to arrange a time but they never call back. I have been in touch with the agent who has said he believes the girls have spent the rent money, I have had to use their deposit to cover this months rent. I do however have a document that they signed at the time of the tenancy stating that any failure to pay would result in them leaving after a months non payment, would this be considered an agreement of disillusion? I feel i will have a continued problem with these tenants and want them out,

thanks 35

Azhar2010-05-18 13:59:17 I have a tennant who has overstayed beyond his tennacy agreement and is also over 6 months rent arrears. I previous gave a section 21 notice however his solicitor has challenged me because my agent took the deposit and didnt put in a deposit scheme. I have a court hearing soon. The tennant is not only in arrears but grounds 12, 13 and 14. Do I have a chance in the hearing or is it best a serve a Section 8 notice? 36

Chris2010-06-11 11:13:31 Hi

There are 3 of us Living in a rented house.
We were told over the phone last night that we have to leave as the house is unsafe to live in but given 2 months to move.
We know there are lots of problems with the house as weve been phoning our management company every week, more than once most weeks, for 7 months.
We still have 5 months left on our agreement.

They have offered us our deposit back, but i feel we are entitled to some compenating due to inconvienence.

We have to sort out all our 12 month contracts etc and the hassle of finding somewhere else with credit checks etc.

I feel we have been excellent landlords, paid every month on time. etc and looked after the house.

Is there anything we can do.
Please help. Desperate!!!! 37

Jools2010-06-11 12:31:05 Chris,

from what I have read they canb not do this. For a start they must give written notice. Also If the contract is an AST they cannot simply evict you without compensation. They are as tied into the contract as you. 38

Jools2010-06-11 12:34:41 Continued............

Contact the letting agent and say you require proper notice. What is wrong with the property? Why is it unsafe? If it is unsafe someone is going to be liable and you may be able to seek compensation. If the property is unsafe it is upto the landlord to fix it or provide you with alternative accomodation untill it is safe or for the duration of your contract.

They simply cannot just ask you to move out. Can you let us have more details?

Jools 39

Chris2010-06-11 12:43:02 God where to start.

There is severe damp (freshly painted walls hidden this when we moved in)
Rotten floorboards (they ripped up on about a month ago and its still like it)
Plaster on the ceilings is shot
Live wires on the fuse box
Cooker NEVER worked
Water (flooded) in the cellar with live wires we were informed a month ago!
Pipes for washer flowing in the wrong direction
Windows without keys
Condensation in double glazing windows
Blown lightbulbs, when replaced new ones wont work, resulting in no lights in the entire hallway (up and down)
Electric shocks from plugs!
Garden severly overgrown

It goes on and on
They were informed of all of these the week after we moved in and they havnt done nothing about it. 40

Chris2010-06-11 12:44:31 Whats an AST? 41

Linda2010-07-13 23:49:40 Hi there

I need some help. I have been renting my house out for the last 17 months and due to circumstances beyond on control i need to move back into my house.My ex renewed their contract without letting me know about this. Can anyone help or advise me on the best way to go about this please....

I urgently need to get back into the house

Thanks in advance

Linda 42

gemma2010-09-18 21:11:41 hi i have currently been renting my 2 bedroom house out for 12 mths and it ran out now landlotrd sighned anouther 6 mth tennancey agreement ok 2 days later he rings me sayin he wants me out only coz y bfriend is on a electronic tag curfew n the police rang n telt my landlord that he has giv me 4 weeks 2 find sumwere else but its nt that easy 2 find sumwere can he cum in a few weeks and evict me r doese he hav 2 take me 2 court 43

James2010-10-14 01:06:14 I rented out my a 3 bedroom property out to a couple. On the tenancy agreement they insisted they only want the girlfriends name. They were persistently paying late, they then had problem with the custody of their children overseas. I was lenient and flexible initially. Then they refused to answer my calls/door. I was then told that they had lost their jobs and now were to go and seek housing benefit. There were 6 months arrears. I was told that they would pay backdated rent.
As a result of being 2 months mortgage arrears my property got repossesed, put to an Auction (buy-to-let is treated as a commercial loan/terms) with the tenants still in the property enjoying a substantially reeduced rent.
What has come to light the tenant has been subletting 2 rooms plus the couple and their children, apparently I understand her claim for housing benefit is only one room because her partner has found a job, and is delighted at the prospect of being told that on eviction she will receive a council home. On the other side a home which was to be my family home snatched with a lifetime debt to pay on the losses. Message to ALL if just don't delay EVICTION if it not them it will b you. 44

Stephen2010-11-02 23:46:18 my tenant whom is on a short term assured Let and has 3 - 4 times left the property, leaving all the windows wide open and obviously unlocked. The tennacy agreement dafted up by my letting agent clearly states that he/she must ensure that the property is fully secured, windows locked etc etc. when property is left unoccupied.

He is also refusing me access to do some work on the property to maintain it.
Have i got sufficent grounds to issue a section 8, under grounds 12?

thank you 45

Rav2010-11-26 16:55:21 Hi,
My tenant is refusing to leave. I have server him with Section 21 notice, 60 days before the tenancy expired. He contacted Housing Association and apparently had been adviced that he dont have to leave until he receive a baliff order. Is there any cheaper option? 46

sue2010-11-27 11:26:35 Join the National Landlord's associaton. We did and got some very good advice. 47

Kam2010-12-24 16:51:18 Hi, I want to evict my tenant. He has a fixed term tenancy agreement which is due to end 30th August. He normally pays the rent but is always late by a week or a few days. I have to call him about 10 times before he responds. When i signed the agreement i took a deposit off him but have not put this into a deposit scheme. Can I still serve him a section 21 or do I have to put it in a scheme and then give him a section 21. 48

Twattybollocks2010-12-29 08:44:45 Kam - you are f*****.

Nothing you can do till August. You can of course issue a section 21 but you need to do it with the correct dates. Even if you section 21 him it does not mean he has to leave. If he stays you will then have to get a court order to remove him and then use court appointed bailiffs to do the actual removal which may be upto 6 months later! You do need to put the money into a scheme asap.

TB 49

SJT2011-01-02 22:25:30 The tennant is not always in favour. Sometimes there are unscrupulous Lanlords and Letting agents who do not their job properly allowing "unreliable" tennants to deliberalty get into arrears ,not inform the tennant untill too late and send out monthly statements with missing payments and discrepancies, which if the tennant does not check can be easily fooled into thinking they owe more arrears than they do. As has happened to a friend of mine. There should be more protection for Private Landlords and tennants alike. Too many greedy B--tards in this world. 50

bubs2011-01-16 12:57:17 Hi i work on behalf of my old landlord long story short agents went bust as we moved out and the owner asked us if we would like to collect the rent and and things for him as he doesnt live any where near, so we have done so for the past 3 yrs had no probs until now a tenant has refused to pay rent since november missin decs and owin from oct's rent as it wasnt paid in full she gave 4 wks notice bk in december we have had no contact from the tenant in months about catching up on the outstanding missin rent so we had to resort to hand delivery letters so we knew they got them but now 4wks is up and stil had no keys handed back or anything we havent done anything like this so want to no what we do next ive read hrs and hrs of eviction processes but do we send sec 8 or 21? as her contract has just ended or did a mth ago and with outstanding rent and breaching the contract having dogs when they owner him self stated in the contract no dogs but another animals maybe considered if asked in advance. 51

bubs2011-01-16 12:59:16 sorry forgot tomention can i get 1 of these notices and delivery it myself or do i need to visit court for the notices? 52

Jane2011-01-20 19:44:20 I am a live in landlady and hav a male tenant who moved into my spareroom 6 weeks ago but last week was agressive and verbally abusive towards me. I was so scared that i went to the police and made a statement so they would have it on record incase some else happened. Each night i am driving past my own home if i see the lights on and the past few nights i have not gone home until after midnight when i can sneak into bed quietly without him hearing me then i am up agin at 6am for work each day. I have been told by the police that i should evict him straight away but when i asked citizen's advice they said i have no standing under the law and have to give him 4 weeks notice. I am so scared that about his rection to this notice...please can anyone offer me any advice. 53

steve2011-01-27 18:27:31 Hi I dont know if anyone can help us but we are at braking point over a tenant put in the flat above us by the local housing authority. We've been constantly kept awake at night by his smashing about, he deals drugs, openly abuses us and other people and has got keys copied and given them to god knows how many people who enter day and night making our lives hell. We, along with others and the poor maintenance woman have all submitted reports to the local authority who said they needed evidence and cant act on 'hearsay' (which i found very insulting). We have had to move to a temporary address due to his volatile and violent nature while this all goes on but this was end of October and the LA said they had served him with a notice to quit but nothing has happened since as they say they are awaiting a court date. He since has moved others in and has returned to the property with a tag on completely ignoring any letters about releasing the property. We are desperate to have our home back but every time we call the LA are being accused of harrassing them! How can we know that something is actually being done? Id appreciate any help thanks 54

subi2011-02-21 12:03:07 steve,

my suggestion would be to contact the ombudsman to file a complaint to them about the LA. that puts pressure on the LA to their overseers. this is the link to merton council
http://www.merton.gov.uk/council/complaints/ombuds.htm
there will be a similar one for your LA.

then i would suggest that you obtain a form from your LA to record all the things that goes on. i think it can be filed as a nuisance case. there were tenants that lived above us always having parties and loud music at night, and we called the environmental health officer every time and this sufficed as evidence. get external agencies involved. 55

subi2011-02-21 12:19:24 i am new and inexperienced landlord, and recently gave our flat to rent in September 2010. i have not received a penny in rent since. the tenants were supplied by our council and due to the council taking far too long to 'assess' whether they were eligible for housing benefit, they have given us excuse after excuse. true enough, the tenants have gone back and forth submitting various documents, but have not received housing benefit so are unable to pay us. they now owe about 5 months rent.

i cannot serve a section 21 as the tenancy was fixed for a term of 1 year. if i serve a section 8, under ground 8, then they pay part of the arrears, then the process will be elongated, and i'll never get rid of them.

my question:
is there a process by which i can evict my tenants under the grounds that they have not paid rent but ask the court to give me an order for possession only?

this will enable to me to get other tenants that will pay me rent, and then file separately for proceedings to the current tenants to pay rent arrears.

i would much appreciate feedback, thanks 56

Darren2011-03-02 13:28:35 for any landlords having problems evicting tenants and struggles to fill in the dreaded section 8 or section 21 (most landlords get it wrong, 75% actually) and see their cases thrown from court on a technicality, well now on visum.co.uk you can automatically generate these notices, solicitor approved, court tested, quick, simple, immediate download, reprint as often as needed, just 19.99 :-) launched yesterday. We are on hand to advise at all times. 57

Liz2011-03-15 18:44:32 Please can anybody give me some positive advice!!?!! My family and I moved out of our home to renovate my Mum's home, who we are paying rent to. 2 of my brothers moved in and I stupidly advertised the 3rd room. A woman phoned and naively I took her son in believing he was 18, not taking id to prove this as his mum made out he was wonderful.. he is not by the way!!I also signed an AST agreement with him for a 12 month period from Aug 10, believing there was no way he would take the mick living with my 2 brothers but he has. He has not paid his rent on time atall and is now almost 5 months in arrears, £1750. It also turns out he is not 18 but 17 and a mini criminal, he has been arrested and his room searched several times due to fraud and money laundering since he moved in and I have had many complaints about him, including him setting off display fireworks with his scum bag friends out of my front window, in a terraced house just feet from neighbours cars and alomst damaging my property and my neighbour! Anyway he has the complete gall to continue to live in the house and make no effort to pay a penny, a plan 58

Liz2011-03-15 18:50:33 Sorry continued...

A plan I believe he prob had from the beginning. I have since paid out nearly £900 for a section 8 notice and advice from a solicitor, he is due to move out tomorrow but has no intention, he also says housing are helping him find somewhere, that he wants to move out and that they are going to pay his arrears, none of which I believe. My solicitor now tells me that I need to speak to a barrister that will cost me at least £600 to see if we can actually take him to court as he was a minor when he signed the agreement. I am at the end of my tether and just want a peaceful life. My relationship is in tatters as it was me who pushed for this in the first place and I just want him to leave so my brothers can feel comfortable in their own home and I can get on with my life. Please can anybody give me any advice or help I just can't afford to continue this fight in court. Sorry VERY long winded post!!! Thanks Liz. 59

jean2011-03-31 18:18:25 hi I am renting from a land lord but he has not giving me a lease and I don't think he has regesterd him self as a land lord so i whent to my local councel to see if i could get a flat but was told i need a notice to quit form from my him but he will not give me one. any ideas? 60

Maxine2011-03-31 23:48:15 I have a lodger that owes 1,150 pounds in total for the past 2 months. She wants the repairs completed on the house. For the last month, we have tried to gain access to the property with no joy. The lodger is an alcoholic and is constantly begging money from the neighbours. I am going to issue a Section 8 and sell my house. The lodger is very hostile and basically cannot talk to her. Any ideas or suggestion 61

Louise2011-05-01 13:08:28 My tenant owes nearly 3 months rent. I dont have a current signed tenancy agreement and I didnt put the deposit in one of the government approved schemes. Can I still serve an order 8 on my tenant? 62

David2011-05-05 18:59:25 I have a tenant who is just over two months rent overdue and whose tenancy will expire in two months time. I desperately need to get the tenant to pay his overdue rent or get him out of the flat so that I can rent it to someone else before I get into financial difficulty.
I have not yet registered the tenants deposit with a tenancy deposit scheme which I should have done at the start of January so I am concerned that serving a section 8 notice will not hold any water? Is this right and can any one advise the best course of action?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can answer promptly. 63

faust2011-05-08 00:48:08 is very easy to evict a bastard :

make is life hell ! cut off gas, water, gas, electric.
if not point a knife in his neck, the last notice to live !

and fuck him ! 64

jenny2011-07-12 13:54:56 hi all. We are renting a property and Housing benefit are dealing with our claim but is is taking forever. although have been assured the assessor will be looking at it tomorrow!) we are however 2 months in arrears with our rent because of this. today we have been given our notice of possesion order. If we make the arrears payments within a certain amount of time are we allowed to stay in the property? what happens now are we definatly going to be evicted? Please can anyone shed some light on this. many thanks J 65

KEVIN2011-09-10 10:44:21 I am a single English 50 male living for the first time in property paid by the council since June 1st - The landlady ownes the building and lives on site -

I am clean , no smoker , no tv person, no criminal background and so are the Polish couple in the studio next to me -For whatever reason she has constantly threatened them with 'if any one messes with me my husband and son will mess with them '---she forces at regular intervals to have our studios inspected----' she has ' trespassed into my room several times and the latest she has left a note ' stating she is going to inspect on Monday ----I AM QUITE ILL AT THE MOMENT AND CANNOT TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS '----'...i will gladly move and am really trying to find work but do I have any rights ????? She will get very ugly on Monday . How do I stop this initimidation ? Can the council do anything ? --thanks in advance 66

ann2011-09-13 06:54:07 we have a tenant who has repitedly messed up his housing benifit to the point that we ended up in arears with our mortgage and now have a order on house that if we miss one more payment they will take house from us he has broken tenancy agreement by having 2 dogs who he kept locked in the kitchen where they have peed and pooed all over to a point where he has had to take the tiles up in there he has now had his son taken into care as he was neglecting him and is constantly drunk he has also changed the locks on the doors which we have not approved please could u tell me what i can do to have him evicted 67

jim bob2011-09-16 14:08:50 i stay in scotland council are trying to evicted me as i am convicted drug dealer but time offences took place i was noy a tennent so i have not broke any tennentcy agreament can they do this 68

J London2011-09-17 23:37:58 Is it a requirment of a Section 8 Notice that it HAS to be signed and dated?

i.e. Does a Section 8 Notice HAVE to be signed and dated (the bit at the end on most forms) to be deemed served/proper notice??

Sounds like a silly .. yet is a genuine .. question (that I cant seem to find the answer to)

A definitive answer would be much appreciated.

Many thanks. 69

dee gause2011-10-12 20:57:28 i live in an apartment where my landlord died.i have not renewed my lease since 2009. the place in in need of a lot of repair. so now that the daughter is the new owner she refuse to make repairs. she has been the manager of the apt. since 2009. i told her i will pay rent after repairs are made. now she decided to give me 30 days notice to leave. i have been living here for four years and paid rent on time. the apt has been being repaired for the same damage since 2007. i was patient for years. can she evict me now because it is cheaper for her to move in and not do the repairs. 70

dee gause2011-10-12 21:01:31 i have children and now she said that she needs to move in. and all she gave me was this hand typed letter. is it legal since i don't have a lease. 71

Danny2011-10-18 19:06:02 I have lost my job and my landlord put on me risk of eviction and he wants to close my room's door and change the lock This is madness for me what should I do 72

john2011-10-25 20:46:59 Can someone please Help where to start:

6 years ago my faher bought a 50% share in a flat, its sharedownwership,with a housing authority.He paid £26.000.
The property was transferred into my name in march 2005 since then he has run up rent arrears of £4750.00. All correspondance from housing autority has gone to property in his name for rent arrears. three weeks ago they contacted me after doing a land registry search and come back with my name as proprietor and want me to pay the £4750.00 in full.I have never had any letters from them until this point.Where do i stand??. Also my father now says i have to give him back what he paid for property, but i am title absolute on land registry do i legally have to?. hes bankrupt and a drunk, legally should the housing not of been in touch with me. PLEASE HELP I CANT GET ANY ANSWERS. 73

john2011-10-25 20:52:28 SORRY- Can i also add that my father has been sub letting the flat and the housing authority who he has to pay an element of rent and service charges were aware of what he has been doing. He has ruined the flat or his tenant has. The boiler leeks, there is mold in kitchen walls and bathroom ceiling as there was a leak all of which up until three weeks ago i did not know. please help. 74

johnathan2011-11-06 19:03:17 i have a questtion my girlfriend is on sec 8 she just added me to it and we r waiting forme to get approved in tha mean time they r saying we have to pay the full months rent for this month since sec 8 is still in the process of me getting approved on her case we already got a non payment letter from the apartments when we asked sec 8 what we do they said there is nothing we can do it takes 30 to 45 days to find out if i got approved on her case and they also said if we get evicted that when i find out if i get approved we will still b able to get a place if i get approved on her case since it is their fault because the process takes so long i really dont want to move out and then try to find another place when get approved on my girlfriend case just wondering if i can do anything or if this has happened to anybody we usually pay around 40 a month but this month they want us to pay the whole amount 598$ i hjope somebody can give me some kind of advice this is really stressfull for me and my gurl and she is pregnant so im trying to assure her that it will b ok 75

Twattybollocks2011-11-07 14:30:28 @Kevin: Be a man and grow some bollocks. Tell you LL to F*** off and stop harassing you and trespassing otherwise you will sue her. Of course you have rights you silly man - go and speak to your council who pay your rent.

@J London: Yes it must be signed.

@JimBob; No idea about Scotland but if you signed something saying you had no convictions and then they found out you have you are stuffed. No sympathy given you are a convicted drug dealer. You are slightly below pond scum in my eyes.

@De Gause: Tell your manager to sod off. Assuming you are or have been on an AST and are in England or Wales she can't just give you 30 days notice. She has to issue a section 21 notice. Go and take some legal advice on this.

@Danny: Get another job?

@John; You need to take proper legal advice on this.

@Johnathan: No idea what you are on about. 76

Tarun2011-11-22 11:23:00 Please help as soon as possible...


My friends father was expired last year.all of family of my friend lives on a home that is on rent from last 26 years and registry of that house is on my friends father name.they are paying the rent at the time but now the land lord forcing him to left the house.
Now the condition of that house is not so good they strated repair the house but the landlord stop them for repairing.


So,Please give me suggestion how we stop them to do that...


I sall be very thank full to you.... 77

Armin2011-11-22 14:05:50 Hi Tarun,

Your landlord probably sees this as an opportunity to make a fresh start with the property, do it up then find new tenants who to ask higher rent from. The landlord sees the house your friends' family lives in as an investment. He's calculating the repairs (incl what he can claim against tax) against the future increased rental income.

What I think your friends's family should do is to seek a dialogue with the landlord and offer a rent which is in-line with the condition of the property and the current market prices.

What they can't expect is to keep renting for the same price indefinitely. If they want to stay, it will cost them. 78

Benji2011-11-22 16:14:59 Tarun,

They need to check what kind of tenancy agreement it is.
Sounds like it may be a Rent Act tenancy. This is not a normal Assured Shorthold Tenancy, the landlord has very limited rights regarding rent increases and eviction.
They need to seek advice from the local councils Tenancy Relations Officer. 79

lilly2011-12-23 18:13:56 I had called my landlord to make repairs. My shower was leaking and now its growing mold. He fixed the shower leakage and now theres still mold all around my shower. I also asked him to exterminate because bugs were getting in my food. He did that as well but he had a very nasty attitude about it. So when the exterminater came he said the bugs were getting in because the cabinets are so old and that they will have to be replaced. He got mad and told me that hes not doing it and wants me to move out that he wants out of the lease. I am on section 8. Can he actually refuse to make repairs and make me and my kids move out ? if so how much time will I have to move and should I still pay him rent ? I havent gotten a notice to move or anything but I am very worried about what i should do next and if i have any rights as a tenant ? 80

niki2012-01-20 23:57:13 was renting out a room to a lodger, who has left without giving the 2 weeks notice in the contract (just left a note and the key). The room is not clean, with dirty bed linen on the bed, and she has left all the stuff she no longer wants - 21 inch TV, 2 printers, PC monitor, clothes airer, picture of Dr Who, some other random stuff, 12 bin liners of mixed rubbish (she kept the room in a really bad state with used sanitary towels and condoms under the bed etc which I cleaned up). I'm furious. This person has also run up a lot of debt using my address and will not give me a forwarding address to re-direct debt collection to - I do know where she works, could I deliver all her rubbish to her work address or would that get me in trouble? 81

Imran khan2012-02-02 19:18:14 Hi there, hope you can help.
Recently has Tennents leave my property and everything seemed fine. The property was cleaned and I had authorised and agent to look and manage the property. A few days after I was told someone has moved in, changed the locks and have a tennency agreement from the agency. The agency seems to dispute issuing any such agreement. Somehow the Tennent has been able to get the keys, fob etc. the management agency went down when the so called Tennent wasn't in and changed the locks. Is this legal, what if the occupier changes the locks again.. Also, the occupier has stated they paid 6months in advance (rent and deposit). They seem to have a proper agreement, all relevant documents and receipts all sighned by genuine looking signatures. The agency dispute this as being fraudulent. What would I need to do to get this so called Tennent out. Can we issue a section 8, will the police do anything? Please help as the so called agreement does state 6 months?? Thanks 82

sara2012-02-03 01:24:45 I have rented a home which was turned into a duplex, the basement being turned into a apartment and I living upstairs with all wood floors and barley and insulation between us. I also have 2 toddlers and am a single mom on sec8. The people who moved in below me 5 months ago are a young couple one which is mentaly disabled and a alcoholic. False accusations have been made about me to the landlord from the man down stairs that I can prove they are not true and have statements from every one in my neighborhood stateing i am a pleasent neighbor to have but my landlord wont even look at the statements or hear my side and says im lieing when i tell him the man downstairs is mentaly disabled because he apears normal the first few times then when hes comfortable lets u know he beleives is a secret agent with nasa and the president of kenya. I have benn evicted do to the landlord fully beleiving my neifhbor wirh out even hearing my side of the story or proving gim false and now because of the eviction my sec8 housing is terminated and after $700 i spent repairing damages to the house that were there when i moved in along with new paint and a new tiled bathroom i did to the home , i get a horrible refrence ,making it impossible for me to find a home for my kids and I.I have 2 weeks to be moved out and i truely have done nothing to be evicted. What should i do legaly so that my sec8 is at leaat not terminated? 83

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