Filling out Form N5 or is there another? No fault eviction

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bluebird2021 - you should have fixed the pipe and made your tenant pay or bring a small claims case against Virgin. I find Virgin are quite insistent on getting landlord approval. I wonder what went wrong there?

Agree with flyingfreehold. I have just had Sky put a cable across the garden...

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Years ago many properties were built like this with walking thru a bedroom to get to bathroom but it is not acceptable today and to deliberately create that scenario would not be sensible.

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Tesco marble cleaner is very good and reasonably priced - also works well on shiny metal door handles

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AliRaz - just trawled through all this.......What happens about your electric, gas (if any) and water bills? Are these all included in your rent or do you actually get any bills in your name?

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You can guarantee if you join his roof he will use your roof as part of his roof terrace. I would join lower if possible and maybe try to erect a barrier even if small to denote yours from his and just in case he wants to put potted plants on it.

Was his terrace added to the deeds before...

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Why is that then - what happened at the last property? Tread with extreme caution....

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Gas cookers don't usually break down - what has happened? You may be able to get spares.
Is it a new cooker you are supplying? Ask whoever told you this tale to describe in detail what is needed and ask if it is at the cooker end or the wall end.

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OP doesn't say why they are leaving the current property.
3 kids and 2 pets are heavy wear and tear on a property - landlord will take a hit.
CCJ satisfies are a bit recent for my liking - obviously something went wrong there to get them.
3 kids are money sapping and moving to what...

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Same here. Last week had 2 people to view my London flat -male was allegedly according to the agent a Recycling and Waste Disposal Advisor and Engineer on £52K +£12K housing allowance. A bit of sleuthing on my part found out he was a bin man! Nowt wrong with that but a bit of poetic licence on...

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Thanks JKO - that does look more like what I was expecting and familiar from times past.

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Thanks JPK - the N5 form give a series of tick box reasons so I suppose I just ignore them?

ash 72 - the apartment in question is part of a very big building I own and I have no wish to sell anything just to remove this person. Council will not be helping - she is also being assisted by...

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I have finally had enough of one of my tenants and her guarantor . S21 issued back in August but we have rumbled on with the assistance of the local authority 'early prevention of eviction team' but even they have given up. Ideally I want 'no fault eviction' but From N5 lists several options. Tenant...

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My vet neighbour told me that rabbits can be house trained when this same thing came up some years ago. I relented and let tenant have a rabbit. A sudden leak one day had me go there as an emergency and I was tripping over the rabbit poo all over my lovely laminate floor. Tenant went (with rabbit)...

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Look at the state of that hob! It hasn't been cleaned in months.

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I've got 2 refuseniks at one of mine. Good tenants but paranoid over Covid and one has ME which does not make her a vulnerable person according to the NHS. I have established a good set of texts showing my 3 attempts to gain entry for the electrician - each one refused until they have had the jab...

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In council planning terms a garage is counted as part of the 'accommodation'. Your lease says differently/

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Damp and cavity wall insulation don't usually go very well together - if you do go down that route try to use the graphic bead type rather than blown in fibre which just collapses on contact with damp. I would try to get on top of the current problems first.
Start at the top and work down. Are...

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I have had to get multiple EICRs done over the last few weeks - in London I had to pay for a metal fusebox or it was a fail (cost of £598 each). Meanwhile in Bournemouth got loads done with plastic boxes and that was a C3 (advisory). Having read the guidelines and they are ambiguous to say the least....

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Crumbs - maybe take up another hobby rather that diy?

If you block up coal holes natural air that gets in to keep things a bit dry is lost. Water is penetrating the cellar from all sides in the form of damp constantly and a fan will not get it away. Either tank the cellar ( ££££s)...

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Considering they left in July 2020 (last year!) I'd be thankful they had gone. With the Covid situation there are so many landlords who are stuck with non payers whom they can't get rid of at all.
You say you were a 'new landlord' so treat this as a sharp lesson to only accept tenants in sustainable...