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just a question

red_devil
red_devil Posts: 10,793 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
i get part hb and am now paying a shortfall myself direct to landlord by dd.

If my ll puts rent up again in next year and i cant afford to pay any more shortfall what would happen could he ask me to leave and how easy would it be for him.?

Im a good tenant for the record and looked after the property well and even improved it.

Im not expecting it to come to it but say it did what could he do?
:footie:

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  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    you cannot be asked to leave until your landlord gets a court order. If you are 8 weeks in arrears he can then go to court to ask for possession of the property. This will take a long time to achieve.
  • red_devil
    red_devil Posts: 10,793 Forumite
    clutton wrote: »
    you cannot be asked to leave until your landlord gets a court order. If you are 8 weeks in arrears he can then go to court to ask for possession of the property. This will take a long time to achieve.

    where would you live if he got possession?
    :footie:
  • tbs624
    tbs624 Posts: 10,816 Forumite
    red_devil wrote: »
    i get part hb and am now paying a shortfall myself direct to landlord by dd.

    If my ll puts rent up again in next year and i cant afford to pay any more shortfall what would happen could he ask me to leave and how easy would it be for him.?
    As you say "again" has the LL recently put the rent up?
    red_devil wrote: »
    Im a good tenant for the record and looked after the property well and even improved it.

    Im not expecting it to come to it but say it did what could he do?
    Are you still with in a Fixed Term tenancy? Some LLs do forgo annual rent increases if they have a "good" T in place as a void can quickly wipe out the equivalent of any proposed increase plus the LL has the hassle of starting over with a new unknown T who turns out to be wholly unreliable.
  • red_devil
    red_devil Posts: 10,793 Forumite
    tbs624 wrote: »
    As you say "again" has the LL recently put the rent up?

    Are you still with in a Fixed Term tenancy? Some LLs do forgo annual rent increases if they have a "good" T in place as a void can quickly wipe out the equivalent of any proposed increase plus the LL has the hassle of starting over with a new unknown T who turns out to be wholly unreliable.

    no the rent has not gone up recently but no doubt it will next year sometime nothing ever goes down.
    :footie:
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 50,200 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Name Dropper
    Under recent government announcements, LHA is also reducing by around 8-10% from April 2011.
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  • red_devil
    red_devil Posts: 10,793 Forumite
    silvercar wrote: »
    Under recent government announcements, LHA is also reducing by around 8-10% from April 2011.

    what does that mean exactly?
    :footie:
  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    it means taht the amount you get from local housing allowance for yoru rent will go down, and you will be expected to "top up" the missing amount to make your rent up to its correct level

    ""where would you live if he got possession? "

    this means that you would have to leave the property and find somewhere else to live..... the court would give you a specific date to move out by.... if you did not move out on that date the LL would have to go back to court to get a Bailiffs warrant and then the Bailiffs would come and make you leave.
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