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Almost nine out of ten (87%) landlords who accept housing benefit tenants have had problems with rent not being paid on time, with one in ten (11%) saying they have had tenants who stopped paying their rent altogether.   Out of all landlords, more than half (59%) stipulate no housing benefit tenants in their advertisements.The astonishing results emerge from a survey of over 1,000 UK landlords, conducted by flat and house share website...

Councils and housing associations to test direct payments of housing cost support Local authority and housing association partnerships are named as the successful volunteers the Government plans to work with on pioneering demonstration projects that will see claimants in the social rented sector directly receiving monthly housing benefit payments and paying rent to landlords themselves for the first time. The demonstration projects, which will...

KT Property v Joseph Pritchard Bristol County Court 3 February 2011 This case, although quite rare was in our view certainly interesting and was one that made the mice in our heads revolve on the spinning wheel at great speed and for long periods of time. That being said, full credit must go to Evicthem as they did the vast majority of work. Background During January 2010, the landlord (KT Property) was approached by a prospective tenant but he...

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Possible defences - section 21 noticesAn extremely common question that arises on our helpline is when a landlord has properly served a valid section 21 notice, the tenant often goes to the housing department of the local authority. They are then told by the authority that the landlord must get a possession order before they will consider them homeless. This has several issues There is undue burdens on...