Serving Notices

eviction, housing, landlord
Oct 20 | 2021
 

Serving Notices

Are you worried about a further time extension for you to serve a notice on your tenants? Worried about your finances with lost rental income? We take a look at the importance of serving notices in the correct way. If your Tenant is breaching their tenancy now is the time to serve your notices.   If a notice is served correctly, then the process is relatively straightforward, but any issues, regardless of how tiny they may appear, will result in your case being dismissed. If dismissed not only, will you suffer months and months of unpaid rent (lost rental income), but you could end up paying your tenants costs. What if your Lettings Agent drafts the notices, it will save you the cost right and we all want to save legal costs? 80% of the notices forwarded to us were originally served by lettings agents, and the vast majority were faulty is some way. Agents are not able to serve legal documents, sign on your behalf or attend hearings, as they have no rights of audience. Does it matter? Yes, because they will not have insurance, they will not know the case law to rely on, and the case will often be dismissed.  It sounds a good idea to let your Agent complete the process, but check they have the insurance to cover any faulty notices.  The vast majority do not, because they cannot give legal advice. What if they don’t have insurance? Then you suffer the loss as the Landlord. What if they have got away with it before? It just takes that one time to cost you many thousands of pounds in lost revenue and legal fees, and don’t forget that judgment on your credit file. With our fees of £50.00 + VAT* (*by quoting NEWB13 for October and November 21), it simply does not make this risk commercially viable.  Please phone us on 0330 123 1131 or complete our contact form, to ask our advice, and get it right first time. For more information on our eviction service please visit our Evictions & Serving Notice page

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