Comments on: Section 8 Notice To Quit Form- Evicting Tenants

By: sara

sara — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:24:45 +0000

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?

By: Imran khan

Imran khan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:18:14 +0000

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

By: niki

niki — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:57:13 +0000

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?

By: lilly

lilly — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:13:56 +0000

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 ?

By: Benji

Benji — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:14:59 +0000

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.

By: Armin

Armin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:05:50 +0000

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.

By: Tarun

Tarun — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:23:00 +0000

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….

By: Twattybollocks

Twattybollocks — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:30:28 +0000

@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.

By: johnathan

johnathan — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:03:17 +0000

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

By: john

john — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:52:28 +0000

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.