Landlord and tenant notices
A notice has to be served, or one has arrived, and everything turns on whether it was done correctly.
For landlords who need a notice to be valid first time, and for tenants who have received one and want to know whether it is.
Most notices that fail do not fail on the merits. They fail because a prescribed form was out of date, a deposit was not protected, a certificate was not served, or the period was counted wrongly. Each of those is fatal and each is avoidable.
We draft the notice, check the conditions that have to be satisfied before it can be valid, and set out how and when to serve it so service can be proved later. If you are the tenant, we do the same in reverse and tell you whether what you have received actually bites.
What we do
- The correct notice identified and drafted on the current prescribed form.
- The prerequisites checked, including deposit protection, certificates and licensing where they apply.
- Dates calculated and the service method set out, with a record you can rely on if it is disputed.
- For tenants: the notice you have received checked against every requirement, with a written answer on whether it is valid.
What it costs
Priced per notice. Checking a notice you have received is quoted separately and is the cheaper of the two.
Whatever the figure is, you have it in writing before any work starts, and it does not move afterwards.
Where the limits are
- You serve the notice. We prepare it and tell you how to serve it so service can be proved.
- If a notice expires and the matter becomes possession proceedings, that is court work. We prepare documents; we do not conduct proceedings.
- We do not take on housing disrepair claims. Those are regulated separately.