Assured Shorthold Tenancies, Part 6 Housing Act 2004, Tenancy deposit Scheme, Fixtures and fittings, EPC’s, Rent Act, Taxation, Mortgages, Section 21 notices, Possession Orders, Court bailiffs, HMO’s, Housing Health & Safety Rating System, Rents, Letting Agents, Rights of Collective Enfranchisement…
And these are just a few of the words, phrases, concepts and Acts of Parliament which a modern residential Landlord has to be familiar with.
The perception is that a residential landlord has an easy life – he just sits back and accepts the rent.
We know from our conversations with our own Landlord clients that this is often far from the case.
The careful landlord has to:
- To buy his property once he has sourced the appropriate funding
- Fix the appropriate rent
- Check the property and put right anything which is unsafe
- Redecorate or refurbish it
- Obtain an EPC (energy performance certificate)
- Arrange an initial and then annual gas safety checks
- Make sure that any furniture etc supplied with the let satisfies the Regulations
- Arrange an initial inspection of the electrical wring and electrical equipment
- Possibly find a letting agent
- Find a tenant
- Ensure that the requirements of the tenancy deposit scheme are met
- Enter into an AST agreement with the tenant
- Take up references
- Take up a guarantee
AND all before the landlord has received any rent
Over our years in practice we have built up an expertise helping Landlords at all stages of the let.
We are there to help even when the relationship goes badly wrong and the tenant owes rent or has trashed the house
We don’t want to make a bad financial situation worse and so have put together some fixed fee packages to help our Landlords
Our Legal Helpline gives you unlimited telephone calls to the legal team here for only £147.00 + vat a year.
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Possession proceedings
Step 1 - £99 +VAT
We will prepare and serve Section 8 and Section 21 Notices
Step 2 - £499 + VAT + Court fee
We will prepare the Court papers to get possession of the property, serve these and attend the Court hearing
Step 3 - £199 + VAT
We will instruct the Bailiff to take possession of the property.