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Letting my property for first time - Council Tax
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Some contracts say the contract will terminate if the rent is overdue for 14 days - if it did and the tenant refused to leave you wouldn't be responsible for fixing the toilet or would you?
The tenancy still exists until the property is voluntarily vacated or the residents are evicted with a court order. If the tenant is still the tenant, the landlord is still the landlord and as such has a legal responsibility to keep the property habitable. AFAIK you can't evict a tenant for non-payment of rent (S8) until they are eight weeks in arrears. If they catch up and then get into arrears again, the landlord has to start the eviction process from scratch.
You could serve two months 'no fault' notice to quit (S21) but this wouldn't take effect if the tenancy is still in the fixed term and, as with an S8, may need to be enforced by the court. As you can see professional tenants can easily run rings around an inexperienced landlord, hence professional landlords such as ArtfulLodger and Clutton warn against amateurs thinking BTL is an easy life.Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️0 -
Is the let property a HMO ???ANURADHA KOIRALA ??? go on throw it in google.0
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house of multiple occupation - ie. bedsits / studios0
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Mine isn't if the question was directed to myself, just a couple moving into it.0
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