Section 21 notice

Using one can also result in a civil penalty of up to £7,000.

Section 21 has been abolished.

The no-fault notice that allowed a landlord to end a tenancy without giving a reason no longer exists.

It cannot be served, regardless of what the tenancy agreement says.

Get yourself educated.

For example, the NRLA, so the National Residential Landlords Association, they're running courses

So whereas previously a landlord who ended up with a difficult tenant could usually wait for a fixed term to end and use section 21 to regain the property without giving a reason, now that route no longer exists.

Removing a problem tenant now means using a section 8 ground, such as serious renter is, which as we've seen takes longer and requires evidence.

So we obviously have been pretty much almost a month since.

Well, we've still got a few people ringing up that have served their Section 21 notice and applied to court before the deadline back at the end of July.

So they're now in that process of going through waiting for an urgent notice of issue or having to look for a warrant of possession.

But it is starting to sort of thin out those sorts of questions and it's just a case of you know moving forward it is just a section 8 notice and if they haven't done one before there's so much guidance about it on our website you know we've got all of the documents we can hand hold through that process so it's not as scaring as i think a lot of people think that the media unfortunately does like to scaremonger sometimes when it comes to to the changes but it's it's not not too not too scary