London Landlords Forum

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London Landlords Forum Landlords Seminar 1
October 2005 by Marveen Smith BA DipLP
Solicitor of PainSmith Solicitors
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Service of Notices

• Service of Notices specified in Law of Property
  Act 1925 section 196
• Registered post
• Recorded delivery
• Hand delivery (deemed delivered the next working
  day if before 5pm)
• May add first class post (deemed delivered 2
  working days later)
• Otherwise Personal Service!

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Section 21 Notices

• Gives the landlord mandatory repossession
• Do NOT serve before the tenancy starts
• MUST be a minimum of 2 months
• Expires at the end of the fixed term or 2 months
  after service if served during the fixed term
• Periodic tenancy- The notice MUST expire at the
  end of a period of the tenancy
• Notice should not be served until the landlord
  wants possession

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Serving Notice

• Tenant gives 1 months notice in a periodic
  tenancy if pays rent monthly
• Cannot be held to a longer period
• Acceptance of keys may be surrender
• Notice to Quit required for a non-housing act
  tenancy

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Landlord and Tenant Act 1985

• Section 1 Actual address of the landlord given
  upon written request from tenant
• Section 2 Actual names and addresses of
  directors upon written request from tenant
• Section 3 Name and address of new landlord when
  property sold
• Section 11 Landlords statutory repairing
  obligations

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Sharers

• Joint and several liability
• Considerations
• Changes of tenants
• Invoking the break clause

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Housing Act 2004

• Deposits
• Approved Schemes
• AST Only
• Prescribed form
• Application to Court
• Sanctions
• Features of the Schemes
• TDSRA

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Disability Discrimination Act 2005

• Key changes to balance between landlord and
  tenant
• Onus on landlord to show reasonableness
• Procedures and services
• Opt-out not for agents
• Reasonable adjustments to physical features
• Potential requirement for documents to be in
  easier formats

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Marveen Smith BA, Dip LP Solicitor

• PainSmith Solicitors
• 1 Mansfield Business Park
• Station Approach
• Medstead
• Hampshire
• GU34 5PZ
• 01420 565310
• www.painsmith.co.uk