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Wasps Nest

Question: Dear Adrian, I have a tenants in a 3 bedroom semi detached house and they have asked me to deal with a wasp...

Wasps Nest
posted on: 22 Aug 2010 | author: admin

Prevention of Rats and Mice Notice

I have just had a notice from our local authority requesting that I remove some waste from the rear of one of our...

Prevention of Rats and Mice Notice
posted on: 27 Jul 2010 | author: admin

Police Broken Door

A perhaps surprisingly common question we get is what is the position where the police break down a tenants door? Who...

Police Broken Door
posted on: 13 Jul 2010 | author: admin

Failure to Comply with Initial Requir...

Paula O’Brien v Jacqueline Jones & Andrew Alexander (T/A Belvoir Huntingdon). Northampton County Court, Claim...

Failure to Comply with Initial Requirements
posted on: 8 Jul 2010 | author: admin

Maintenance of fire blankets and exti...

Question Hi Adrian Please could you advise what the current legislation is on providing fire safety equipment. Going...

Maintenance of fire blankets and extinguishers
posted on: 1 Jun 2010 | author: admin

Condensation

Introduction Before the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) introduced by the Housing Act 2004, there have...

Condensation
posted on: 15 Feb 2010 | author: admin

No joy for buy to let ‘King and Queen...

A couple who have been described as the ‘King and Queen’ of the buy to let market after they reputedly...

No joy for buy to let ‘King and Queen’ in case of the missing toilet lid
posted on: 26 Oct 2009 | author: admin

Right of entry

In a lease in which the lessor’s repairing covenant is implied there is also implied a covenant by the lessee...

Right of entry
posted on: 21 Sep 2009 | author: admin

Landlord not liable until notice of d...

O’Brien and Another Appellants v. Robinson Respondent [1973] 2 W.L.R. 393 House of Lords HL Lord Reid, Lord...

Landlord not liable until notice of defect
posted on: 21 Sep 2009 | author: admin

Requirement of Notice

Requirement of notice Where the landlord covenants to keep in repair property which is the possession of the tenant,...

Requirement of Notice
posted on: 21 Sep 2009 | author: admin

Must landlord install safety glass?

Alker v Collingwood Housing Association – [2007] 2 EGLR 43 Court of Appeal, Laws, Carnwath and Moore-Bick L.JJ. ...

Must landlord install safety glass?
posted on: 21 Sep 2009 | author: admin

Measure of damages for breach of land...

Withholding rent whilst repairs are carried out Where the tenant does not actually expend sums on having repairs...

Measure of damages for breach of landlord’s covenant
posted on: 21 Sep 2009 | author: admin

Implied repairing obligations in shor...

By s.11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 there is to be implied into every lease of a dwelling-house to which the...

Implied repairing obligations in short leases
posted on: 21 Sep 2009 | author: admin

Infestation by rats

The invasion of the house from time to time by rats, even in considerable numbers, is ...Please login (via sidebar) or...

Infestation by rats
posted on: 21 Sep 2009 | author: admin

Fit for human habitation

There is an implied covenant in every lease at a low rent to ensure any dwelling let is fit for human habitation. It...

Fit for human habitation
posted on: 21 Sep 2009 | author: admin