Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Evict Tenants...The Last Resort Explained

Good morning everyone,




I spoke to Susan online last night so thank you to my readers who asked where she was now. She went to Mount Rushmore yesterday. We didn't get to talk long as she is very tired from all the travelling. The States is a big country so it's not like me going to my local Tesco.

Once again I seem to be strapped for time so I will get straight to the pint of this instalment of my blog. As usual though I will recap on the story so far. I have learned how to add links to the words now so this will make this instalment and future instalments easier on the eye.

Episode 1, Rent Guarantee

Landlords - Rent Guarantee

Letting Agents - Rent Guarantee


Episode 2, Legal Cover




Episode 3, Buildings Insurance



Episode 4, Contents Insurance






Episode 5, Tenant Checks otherwise known as Tenant Referencing


Landlords - Tenant Referencing


Letting Agent - Tenant Referencing


OK that's all the info for the past episodes posted. If you want to read about my experiences with each one simply use the navigation on the right hand bar to read them. I hope that most of my regular readers would say that they are informative and help. They are designed to help first time landlords or people that aren't experts in the buy to let market.

Now for Episode 6 of the blog and how I have managed to walk the path of the landlady in the UK buy to let market.





This Episode as stated earlier is all about Evicting Tenants, Eviction Services, and the Legal In's and outs of the process. Before we get into it I must stress that I have not had to use the services of an eviction specialist as yet and I truly hope to never have to.



I have my tenants fully referenced by LetSafe so I have made sure that I have done everything I can to avoid the eviction process by quality tenant checks. I also have rent guarantee so if the worst happens I am covered for loss of rent and my legal expenses will be covered. All this can be arranged through LetSafe:




Eviction is a powerful word and for most of the people I know who are in the dark with the facts this conjures up pictures of Police at the door or worse. I wouldn't wish that on anyone but at the end of the day I am not a charity and I have a mortgage to pay on the property I am renting as does Susan. So It is worth knowing a bit about the process the services available to landlords and letting agents. If the worst happens it is best to have a little knowledge of the subject so you can tread the path to getting your house back more effectively and with a bit of luck with it costing you less than you might have otherwise paid.


There are basically as far as I can see three routes to evicting a tenant:


1. Get rent guarantee , a good product which includes your legal expenses for this type of thing and others can be found here: http://www.letsafe.net/default.asp?contentID=625


2. Appoint a Solicitor - Expect to open your wallet and leave it open


3. Fixed Fee Eviction Services, I found a few on the web but asked around and asked the letting agent who I use for Susan's home. All my sources said that Mike Sumerhayes the Legal Director at LetSafe is recognised as the leader when it comes to winning eviction cases in the UK.






Now most people who are unaware of these services traditionally go for the Solicitor to evict tenants. The problem is that this can end up costing a great amount of money and it almost becomes more economical to leave the tenants put. However as the knowledge of the other products isn't wide spread there are a great many people who still use Solicitors as their first port of call. Now I wont get into this as it the topic when being specific with Solicitors is just to wide.


I would suggest to anyone that they check their solicitor our, make sure they are reputable, and ask how they have performed on other cases and check their story out. You will probably be paying allot of money so make sure you are backing the right horse.


I will now get on to the bits I have some knowledge about. I wont go over old ground with rent guarantee, If you want to know more about this then read the previous blog or hit one of the links above to get some good solid information on rent guarantee, whats included and how it works. In a nutshell though, most rent guarantee products have in built Legal Protection so it is a must have for landlords in my opinion.

I am going to spend the rest of time I have writing about eviction services, specifically fixed fee eviction services. There are a few providers out there and as always I recommend searching yourself but I do recommend LetSafe if anyone can find another provider of these services that matches price, service and track record please comment on this blog and let me and others know just in case we ever have to use it.

Now LetSafe offer fixed fee eviction services which are backed by all the expertise needed to effectively evict tenants. As far as I can tell the service falls into 3 main headings, click on the subject below to read the information direct from their site:




I have read the information here and can tell you that it covers the entire subject in depth so I encourage anyone reading this to become familiar with it. Use the links to find out more about the housing act how it affects you and your responsibilities as a Landlord when needing to evict tenants.

Just fairly short blog today so I hope you have found it helpful. Remember to visit LetSafe direct if you need any information or advice on being a landlord or landlady in the buy to let market. They have my seal of approval and to be frank I have learnt such allot by using their site it has made my baptism into the buy to let market as a Landlady an easier experience than If I hadn't gone to them for my buy to let services.



You can visit them here: http://www.letsafe.net/








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