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[jpkeates]

If it's just better because it's newer, that's not really an improvement.
If it's a replacement but also bigger, some of the cost is an improvement but not all of it.

A lot depends how you want to treat it, it's not as black and white as it looks....

[jpkeates]

I do appreciate the point.

I hope it's just the way I type online....

[jpkeates]

Unless there's some bylaws being broken, someone should be free to work in their own garden.
On the other hand, you can't run a business (which is what that sounds like) from a residential property.
And the council may have a view on that (but that would be an issue for the tenant not you)....

[jpkeates]

This is a civil case and the burden of proof is the balance of probabilities (i.e. what's most likely).

Post doesn't go missing nowadays.
The judge would accept the proof of posting.

Otherwise, no one would ever be evicted because that defence could be used for most notices...

[jpkeates]

No.
Any tenancy you create now is either for a fixed number of years or would be capable of being ended somehow (other than death)

If it's an existing tenancy that began before 1989, it might be impossible for a landlord to end it without the tenant dying....

[jpkeates]

I would post the notice(s) first class from a post office and got the free proof of posting receipt.
With no witness present, personal service by you isn't ideal.

Allow an additional four days for the post service to deliver (allowing for the weekend).

[jpkeates]

The problem is that you can't require a tenant to enter into a contract with a 3rd party (except for the supply of utilities or "communication service[s]").

Every free credit report requires some kind of sign up.
Whether that's actually a contract is a matter to be determined,...

[jpkeates]

You can't claim for the cost "to advertise, conduct viewings, admin" because that's just part of the job, you'd have had exactly the same costs and work if the tenant had given normal notice.
They're not a loss, they've just been brought forward a bit.

[jpkeates]

Because in a dispute about breach of contract, the aim is to compensate the party for any loss arising from the breach, with the focus on putting things back how they should have been.

For a breach of a term that's quite possibly unfair, being made homeless would be disproportionate....

[jpkeates]

Well, to be fair to the electorate (who have expressly appointed me as their spokesman!), until recently, the European Parliament wasn't that important. It's becoming more involved in more processes, which does seem like a good thing from a democratic point of view.

The fundamental thing...

[jpkeates]

Or, indeed, that.

On the other hand, there's nothing to stop someone doing that for any claim made against them (ignore everything and then claim not to have received the paperwork afterwards).
Luckily most people don't know or do that.

[jpkeates]

The ccj should be registered automatically if you use the small claims process.
The tenant will have to satisfy the ccj by paying the debt to remove it from their credit record (although it sits there showing that it's been satisfied).

[jpkeates]

I wouldn't rent to them either.

Write and tell them the contract is void due to their non-performance.

In theory, they could take legal action for compensation, but they won't have lost anything other than the holding deposit (which the agent should return to them).
...

[jpkeates]

You are required to serve notice to your tenant confirming that you are now the landlord and giving an address where rent can be paid and legal notices served.

1 - Yes
2 - No, there will have to be a hearing.

[jpkeates]

Letter before action and then small claimscourt/money claim online.

With no addres,s you'll be using your rental property address, and unless they have mail redirected you'll win by default and only collect anything after they find they have the ccj recorded against them.

[jpkeates]

You're taxed on income rather than profit (although it's usually the same thing).
Your mortgage payment looks like it's a repayment mortgage, and if it is, the repayment element isn't allowed as an expense against tax although the interest element is.
You'll need a mortgage statement showing...

[jpkeates]

If you're a basic rate tax payer all that's changed relating to mortgage interest is how you calcualate the allowance.

Higher (40%) tax payers will be restricted to claiming at the basic rate once the changes have been phased in.
So that would mean that they can only claim at 20%...

[jpkeates]

Deed of surrender - https://forums.landlordzone.co.uk/fo...-of-surrender=
Tenancy agreement - https://www.gov.uk/government/public...ssured-tenancy

[jpkeates]

You can probably claim the entire deposit at this point using the single claim process.
That's what I would do (it's a bit time consuming but quite simple).

[jpkeates]

You deduct any allowable costs (not the interest) from the income, if there are none, that leaves £16,500.
You add that to your other taxable income (is that the £7000?) and that's your entire taxable income, and you calculate the tax due on that.

Then you deduct the restricted...