Landlord Action’s Advice to UK Landlords

Landlord Action is an organisation that specialises in dealing with tenant evictions and represents one of the largest and experienced organisations in the UK residential property sector when it comes to providing landlords with help and advice. Most landlords hate the thought of going through the lengthy and unpleasant eviction process if the tenant ends up in rent arrears or refuses to leave the rental unit. However, Paul Shamplina, representative of Landlord Action, claims that landlords can save themselves a great deal of time and nerves, associated with the eviction, process if they follow certain simple steps. First and foremost, all landlords have to take all the preventative measures before renting out the property, as this will help to avoid the lengthy and expensive eviction process. Preventative measures include a thorough check of the financial health of the prospective tenant, bank statements, dated as far as 3 months back, officially issued photo identification, a reference letter and/or telephone of the tenant’s current employer, as well as a reference letter and/or telephone of the current landlord. Such measures as requesting a guarantor and buying property insurance add a significant amount of security to the deal. Those landlords, who have failed to take preventative measures and now have to go through the eviction process, can contact Landlord Action, which offers its services, which will guide the landlord through 3 major steps. First, Landlord Action will send tenant a notice, commence legal proceedings, which will finally be followed by an eviction order. During the eviction process, landlords are recommended to hire locksmiths; also, the landlord should have enforcement officer, appointed by the court. The last, but not the least reminder to landlords is: although evictions rarely turn violent, landlords should contact local police without any hesitations in case violence does occur.