Eviction Notices

Failure to pay rent is a widespread motive when a landlord
decides to seek the eviction of their tenants. To improve your chances of getting a tenant that always makes their rental payments on time, effective vetting of any potential tenant is an absolute must.

Even so, landlords can never insure against any change in the monetary or private circumstances of their tenant and the tenant may suddenly be unable to continue paying their rent.

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Any landlord will find striving to evict their tenants a very stressful episode and if the tenant is an acquaintance then the state of affairs can be even more upsetting. It is vitally important to adhere to the letter of the law, be fair to your tenant, but simultaneously you need to defend your own financial situation and property income with the legal serving of eviction notices. This common sense approach applies regardless of if your tenant is a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a completely unrelated individual.

Eviction Notices - Non-payment of Rent

Unquestionably being overdue with the rent payments is the most cited explanation when a landlord wants to repossess their property. Unfortunately it is also the situation with the greatest effect on people and tends to be especially emotional if the landlord knows the tenant well.

Additionally it can be a very stressful time for the landlord, when the landlord has borrowed a great deal of money and has large mortgage repayments to meet. Landlords should not hesitate over taking action as this will simply offer the tenant extra time to run up even more arrears.

Once a tenant is 2 months behind with their rental payments, a landlord should be starting possession proceedings and these are very straightforward as the 1988 Housing Act's Ground 8 provides this as a mandatory ground.

Usually the legitimate serving of eviction notices will cause tenants to leave of their own free will. Nonetheless, if the tenants will not vacate the rental dwelling, the landlord may make an application to the court for a repossession order established on the legally served eviction notices.

Tenants are then compelled to vacate by the date specified on the repossession order once this has been granted; but a landlord can still go on to ask the county court for a warrant for eviction, if the tenants even then do not leave the property. Once this occurs, court officials will then coordinate the eviction by bailiffs and in this situation the landlord may ask for recovery of the court costs back from the tenant.

Eviction Notices - Serving Repossession Notices

Eviction notices can be served either in person or by post; but landlords must make sure that all tenants are identified individually, though in the case of one of more landlords, only one landlord needs to actually serve the notice. Courts will consider that the day of service, to be the date on which the notice would typically have been delivered therefore it's an excellent idea to send off all eviction notices by recorded delivery, allotting three days for their safe delivery.