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[theartfullodger]

Thanks to Thatcher's 1988 Housing Act a tenancy continues, monthly periodic, if tenant remains in occupation.

Unless evicting tenants through court prior you / agent cannot (legally impossible to) prevent this.

Education?

[theartfullodger]

S8 for arrears. Examine your contract not terms agreed with agent about cancelling/changing agent, 1st. Sorry can't read it from here.

Non payment if rent is an expected risk for any landlord. My rule of thumb is be certain you can cope with at least 7 months of no rent from tenant-from-hell...

[theartfullodger]

Regarding the question, well if the details (names, addresses), grounds & dates are all wrong then I'd expect any court to reject it.

As at this point afaik there's no mandatory ground then I'd expect court to very possibly say no (what grounds do you propose please & why/what evidence)....

[theartfullodger]

Why Oct 5th? Valid tenant notice, or perhaps court order then bailiffs 5thOct, please??

Wool beige carpet for a tenanted house?? I wouldn't...

IMHO (and others more qualified than me..) whilst there's a tenancy, even if rent's not being paid, the rented property is tenant's...

[theartfullodger]

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[theartfullodger]

Is this a guaranteed rent scheme/scam please? Where you are landlord renting to agent who then rents to occupants?

[theartfullodger]

I take the view I'd prefer to hear about problems found rather than not. Yes, sometimes it's not actually an issue, but to avoid eg leaks dripping onto floors, minor holes in roof or locks not appearing to work properly not being reported, the odd false alarm is IMHO part of the "fun" of being...

[theartfullodger]

Thank you for your kind words....

[theartfullodger]

Understand you vacated house & landlord moved back in, but please, how was (or wasn't it) the tenancy ended?? Just moving out doesn;t always end tenancy.

Suggest you contact deposit scheme & raise claim with the scheme.

see also
https://england.shelter.org.uk...

[theartfullodger]

As someone else as tenant would be living there, using property as your address perhaps unwise (tenant is entirely entitled to return all your or anyone else's mail to sender), plus fraud (if eg land registry have that as only address tenant could sell the place or mortgage it, you'd not see the paperwork..big...

[theartfullodger]

The problem is usually not the s21 notice itself, but getting everything else right (service of s21 & handling of & proof of service of deposit, GSC, EPC, etc etc etc)...

[theartfullodger]

Which version of s21 form (there's more than one..)?? See..
https://england.shelter.org.uk/profe...ancies#title-5

- but Bozo's 6a version is here, if you can...

[theartfullodger]

What's wrong with the house that needs you to be " often in the house doing jobs " please? Repair issues may make s21's tricky...

Not to mention if I were a tenant I'd be unhappy with such an arrangement, but perhaps that just me...

[theartfullodger]

House prices will definitely without doubt be both going up and going down, different dates. As they always have. And most things.

As has always been the case, which one when and how much dunno, anyone claiming to know is unlikely to be a reliable source for advice (no offence for anyone...

[theartfullodger]

Did you take your own notes of condition, loads of 'photos etc?

Start dispute process with DPS today...

[theartfullodger]

See..
https://www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/...erty-campaign/

Well done HMRC..

None of my business, and obviously not in anyway a criticism of anybody, but If I had had a friend who I found out had been fiddling tax for 16 years they'd no longer be my friend.
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[theartfullodger]

As nukecad says: See Street v Mountford...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_v_Mountford

Sham agreements (which your cunning plan would be..) are inadvisable, as when ruled by court to be a tenancy, you'd be be at risk of harassment and/or illegal eviction, both criminal charges,...

[theartfullodger]

A common bit of advice hereabouts used to be post same notice from two different post offices with free proof of postage.

If paranoid, also video yourself stuffing notice into addressed envelope then video shoving into letter box. Ideally with witness.

Proof for civil cases...

[theartfullodger]

Having bought, serve S3 % s48 notice(s) or could be painful.

[theartfullodger]

You've not had friends or relatives who were what used to be called split personality?

Half a mind to say one thing half a mind to say another?...