Good evening everyone, following the advice kindly given on this website, I have served a scetion 8 notice on my tenenat for rent arrears using grounds 8,10,11 we are due in court this week. Today I received a letter from a solicitor who is acting on behalf of my tenant via the legal aid scheme. the tenent is disputing the areears although they are yet to provide proof of payment, they are also claiming that the house itself is in disrepair notably the bath in the second bathroom is not screwed properly to its base.problems with the boiler and a crack to a pane of glass. we have kept the house in good repair and indeed we had painted and changed windows before she moved in. we also have a homecare agreement which I provided her details of so that she could call BG out if she needed an engineer. the tenant has never informed us of any disrepair and most certainly did not state that she was with holding rent because of any repairs needed. Although we have now managed to get the LHA to pay the rent to us direct there is still 11.7 weeks rent outstanding. The tenants solicitor has stated that unless we withdraw our claim for possesion they are going to defend the possesion proceedings and counterclaim for disrepair. The property is a beautiful property and kept in very good condition, if there are any problems they would only be minor and we would have been happy to rectify. I beleive that the tenant is just trying to get us to drop our claim. She has made no attempts to pay her arrears although she wrote to us to say that she had been advised by the housing to try and reduce her arrears, she offered to pay £10 a week towards her arrears, to date we have not received anything form her.
my question is will we still be able to get the property back based on the gounds 8,10,11
thank you for all your advice
Londongirl
my question is will we still be able to get the property back based on the gounds 8,10,11
thank you for all your advice
Londongirl
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