Cases

08

May
2019

Rent Arrears – No access to the property – tenant with the landlord for last 8-9 years – Landlord came into great financial crunch – Tenant promised payments but nothing paid since starting of the year – Section 8 notice – Agreed consent order to avoid costs – tenant breached the agreements – outcome

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The landlord tenant relationship was quite old. The landlord assisted tenant on numerous occasions even by temporarily reducing the rent. But it seemed that the tenant took it for granted. No rent payment made since the starting of the year. Upon the request for the payment of the rent, the tenant argued for council involvement, legal aid solicitors etc. The landlord got very emotionally low as he needed the money desperately. He approached us for eviction. We served section 8 notice and upon the receipt of no response, the formal possession proceedings were initiated. Owing to the huge financial difficultly, we continuously advised the landlord to keep the negotiation open with the tenant and try to settle the matter, if possible. Upon multiple requests by the landlord, the tenant agreed to settle the matter. We advised our client for ‘suspended possession order’ rather to take the case back without having any rent arrears payment from the tenant. Both the parties then further agreed for suspended possession order and set out some terms and conditions about the rent arrears payments. However, surprisingly, the tenant default the payment plan agreed before the court. Outcome, the landlord instructed the:

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