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[KTC]

It is a criminal offence not to disclose the landlord's name and address on request........

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Fraudulent loans in the landlord name, letters from the Land Registry, ... ? ...

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If the tenant moves out, and the landlord is happy and preceed to act that the tenancy has ended, then it's clearly going to fall under surrender by operation of law / implied surrender.



"The foundation of the doctrine [of surrender by operation of law] is estoppel. There...

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It appears it is a requirement under the Civil Procedure Rules Practice Direction for witness statements and affidavits.

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I still see it in witness statements....

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You: Do you want to pay (a lot) more rent more month?
Tenant: No.
Y: Okay, here's a section 13 notice.
T: I object.
.... *many months later* ....
Y: Hello tribunal....

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That's something you will have to ask your tenant....

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EPC is only a consideration if most recent tenancy (whether fixed term, statutory periodic, or contractual periodic) started on or after 1 October 2015. If the tenancy in question is older than that, the council is wrong.

8 weeks thing is utter rubbish.

Having said the above,...

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Hmm, if you're in the middle of a fixed term tenancy, then may have a point because the statutory periodic tenancy that may follow would be a new tenancy and the property must be certain EPC rating or exempted. From April 2020, may have a point for existing tenancies....

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There's no point renewing it mid-tenancy. Just get it done after an existing tenant leave, and before you advertise the place out to new tenants.

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Just delay completion and adjust price accordingly.

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Hold on a second. The seller is wanting to stay on for an extra 3 months, at a reduced rent, to save £1,050, yet is willing to accept £5,000 less in the sale price for that £1,050 savings? Erm.... ...

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For a contractual periodic tenancy, yes. For a statutory periodic tenancy, incorrect. Please have a read of the linked article in my previous response....

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I assume what you meant is that it was a fixed term assured shorthold tenancy, which has ended and is now a statutory periodic assured shorthold tenancy.

1. Get the tenant's agreement, and they start paying the higher rent, you're done, or
2. Serve a section 13 notice.

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I'm looking at one with "used only as a private dwellinghouse or as a residence with consulting rooms for a Doctor Dentist or other professional person (but not a Veterinary Surgeon)".

Someone don't like animals.

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Disrepair don't affect s21. If you meant retaliatory eviction rules, written complaint first, then council improvement notices required. If the council with its resources actually get round to issuing an improvement notices, it's unlikely to be "vague claims".

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That sounds like you are referring to the convenants in the lease, rather than any found in the freehold title itself? In that case, yeah, do what you want within the law.

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Let's take away the existence of the agent for a moment, since your underlying argument about how the landlord can and should deal with and financial report the deposit doesn't depend on it.

Now let us get hypothetical. Your tenant leave at the end of a fixed term or by notice, somehow...

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For the leasehold covenant, it's not void so much as there's no one to enforce or seek forfeiture against any leasehold covenants breach since you're your own landlord.

The freehold convenant would still apply. The question then is who can and would enforce it.

Your solicitor...

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The agent isn't an independent third party, they're the agent of the landlord. All their action is supposed to be on behalf of the landlord. The money in reality may have been paid into an agent's bank account or whatever, but the money was paid to the landlord as security, hence the landlord being...