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  • SiliconChip
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    artyboy said:
    If the tenant is on UC in arrears, and generally awkward, then it's quite possible you will have to go all the way through the court eviction process before you actually get them out...

    Which means you have to be absolutely perfect with your S8/21 paperwork...
    How long could the court process take? Can you elaborate on what being "absolutely perfect" with the paperwork would mean in practice?

    It took not far off a year for my friends to evict a tenant a couple of years ago. You must have seen the recent news items about court delays, and while they concentrate on criminal cases the civil courts are likely to be just as backlogged.
    And perfect means perfect, get anything wrong and the whole lot will be heading back to you if the tenant spots it. There's a reason why quite a lot of landlords hand over the eviction process to their solicitor.
  • artyboy said:
    If the tenant is on UC in arrears, and generally awkward, then it's quite possible you will have to go all the way through the court eviction process before you actually get them out...

    Which means you have to be absolutely perfect with your S8/21 paperwork...
    How long could the court process take? Can you elaborate on what being "absolutely perfect" with the paperwork would mean in practice?

    It took not far off a year for my friends to evict a tenant a couple of years ago. You must have seen the recent news items about court delays, and while they concentrate on criminal cases the civil courts are likely to be just as backlogged.
    And perfect means perfect, get anything wrong and the whole lot will be heading back to you if the tenant spots it. There's a reason why quite a lot of landlords hand over the eviction process to their solicitor.
    Not quite true with S8. If they're 2 months over, they're 2 months over.
    Providing the Landlord served the notices correctly, that's it done.

    S21 is a completely different kettle of fish.
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