In case you wish to inform your Brent tenant that you would want them to leave your residence in Church End, Brent Park, or Alperton, it will be required to serve either a Section 8 or Section 21 under the Housing Act 1988.
When you give 'notice of possession' to the tenant in Brent, a Section 21, notice of possession is provided by Denbigh Franks.
The section 21 law gives you the power to repossess your property in Brent from a Greater London tenant when the fixed term of the tenancy agreement ends, or can activate the break clause in the tenancy agreement.
The reasons of eviction in Greater London do not have to be mentioned when carrying out a Section 21 notice.
A Section 8 eviction notice is required in Brent, Greater London, when you have grounds for eviction.
For example, a tenant causes nuisance in Brent Park, not paying rent in Alperton or destroys property in Church End.
If the Brent tenant has violated the agreement at any stage this makes you eligible to end the fixed term tenancy.
However, it could lead to a dispute between both parties that ends in going to court in Greater London where sufficient proof for eviction will have to presented.
The two notices are usually independent and serve for different reasons but yield the same result that is evicting the tenant in Brent.
Many people think Section 21 notice is an eviction notice but it's just a notice to inform the tenant in Brent that you're willing to recover the possession of the property in Alperton, Church End, or Brent Park once they've left.
The first thing you do as a landlord is to issue your tenant in Brent with a notice to exit the Greater London property two months before the tenancy agreement comes to an end.
You can issue a Section 21 notice of possession in Brent, especially when a fixed term of tenancy expires, and the tenancy agreement provides a break clause that triggers.
You can provide it even when the Brent tenant has done nothing wrong and for recovering the Greater London premise's vacant possession you don't have to give a reason.
But it must be served in the right way if you want to enforce it legally in Greater London.
As a Section 21 notice needs to be served accurately, the Deregulation Act 2015 made few changes in which tenancies may be ended using the Section 21 process.
At first, it only applied to tenancy agreements in Brent on or after 1 October 2015.
However, it applies to all Greater London tenancy agreements as from 1 October 2018.
The most significant and valid rules are:
During the first 4 months of tenancy, Denbigh Franks cannot issue a section 21 notice, however, if the tenancy in Brent has been redeemed after the termination of a fixed term, you can issue a section 21 notice any time during the renewed tenancy.
The Section 21 notice has a validity period of 6 months from when it is issued, and if the issue is ongoing in Brent, Greater London, another notice must be served by the landlord.
If you don't deal with a legitimate complaint about the Greater London property by the tenant, the tenant in Brent is permitted to refer the case to the local housing authority; Section 21 notice issued after referring the complaint to the local housing authority is invalid.
Make use of the form 6A to issue a section 21 notice.
The section 21 will not be valid if you didn't provide the following documents to the tenant in Brent at the beginning of renting:
A Certification of Gas Protection
Energy Performance Certificate
At the start of every new tenancy, the tenants must be given "how to rent guide"
You can serve a Section 8 notice in Alperton, Church End, or Brent Park to start the eviction process in Brent if you have grounds to evict a tenant.
Note that the grounds or the reasons for serving the Section 8 Eviction Notice in Greater London are spelt out in the Schedule 2 of the Housing Act 1988.
Here are the well-known reasons for evicting a tenant from your property in Brent, Greater London:
Failing to pay rent
Damage to the property
Nuisance
Before giving the Section 8 Notice to your tenant in Church End, Alperton, or Brent Park, endeavour to fill in a "Notice of a property let on an occupancy that is assured agricultural or an assured tenancy."
On top of that, you are required to specify on the notice what clauses of the Brent tenancy have been broken and must provide between two weeks' and two months' notice which is based on the clauses you are needing.
After issuing the formal eviction notice, if your tenants in Brent refuse to quit by the given date, you can go to court in Greater London to get a possession order.
If your occupant in Brent refuses to leave after you have received a notice of removal with Denbigh Franks, you can act.
An Accelerated possession order is used if you serve a Section 21 notice, if you have a written agreement, and you don't claim any overdue rent in Brent.
If you wish to get your property back in Alperton, Brent Park, or Church End and claim rent arrears from the tenant as well, then you can use the standard possession claim in Brent and serve either a section 21 or 8 notice.
You may take help from the Greater London County Court Bailiff to evict if the tenant doesn't leave the property in Brent even after the expiry of the order for possession, and depending on the County court, you'd have to wait for another four to six weeks.
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