Surely I’m not expected legally to have this tenant in my property forevermore??

Well that feeds into my point - if people are merely buying to make a rental profit as opposed to living there, then it’s artificially induced demand.

I read it as 8 months, as its 12months after issuing notice, which has to be a 4month notice period.

To protect Tenants from being evicted for no reason at all, the period on re letting has to reasonably long.

An EICR is not a high bar to pass at all, it looks for correct earthing requirements & continuity tests in line with current Electrical regs.

Costs about £200 max and is valid for 5 years.

A 20yo house will need at most a new Consumer unit, all your cabling will be pvc, so thats all ok, might need the gas pipe earth bonded near the meter.

Max £1500.

Fire regs? an alarm and it can be a battery one, on each floor, a CO2 monitor by the boiler.

None of this is onerous.

At the end of the day, even if you just break even, in 25years, you have a house, mortgage free, where someone else paid all your costs inc the mortgage.

This is mad and excessively punishing.

Circumstances can change dramatically over the space of a year.

But you still need to provide the right documents to serve a section 7, which OP doesn’t have and didn’t do. This is part of the whole mess that is of OP’s creation. She’d better start negotiating a chunky pay off to her tenant if she wants the tenant out asap.

Well that's a pretty stupid comment. In your own home then it's one thing not to maintain it properly, but gas safety is no joke and the reason we have those regulations is to prevent people dying from carbon monoxide poisoning or gas explosions.

Play the long game, stop all talk about eviction amd selling the property to the Tennant. Then work through your list of 'oversights' over the next 6-12 months. The more you stress your Tennant out the more she/ he will dig their heels in. You have been a bit silly and a bit arrogant to think you can basically do what you want and won't be answerable to legalities.

Funny how you forgot the gas and electric check but didn't forget to collect the rent.
Did you remember insurance?
Did you protect the deposit?

Far better to leave it empty and pay 12 mths costs and have the flexibility to do what you want with your own property .

It’s like all legislation isn’t it . Far easier to issue a blanket rule than address the rogues . Like the call for the dangerous dogs issue to bring back licensing for all rather than stop the types of people keeping large dogs in unsuitable environments.

This is from the Renters' Rights Act: To prevent landlords from abusing the moving in and selling grounds, landlords will not be able to market or re-let their property for 12 months after using the moving or selling grounds.

Do you do this crap to your tenants too? She doesn’t have the paperwork to issue

Oh dear. I take it you’re a bitter ex-landlord with an axe to grind?

Contact these guys - they seem to have a good reputation around evictions:

www.landlordaction.co.uk/eviction

Under the new RRA selling the property is one of the Section 8 grounds

The RRB says they’re not allowed to put it back on the rental market for 12 months. Not sure how they will enforce, presumably through threat of fines.

As with most landlord legislation, this is yet another fine example of penalising good landlords to limit the actions of bad landlords. A good landlord might well intend to sell, put house on market and get no interest or their circumstances change so they decide to relet. However now they find they can’t for 12 months, house potentially sits empty, one less property available for tenants.

We're landlords - you can issue the missing paperwork and then serve the section 21 but you'll need to be quick as they are getting rid of them soon. I've seen these guys mentioned a lot as being very good eviction specialists www.ast-assistance.com/

Yes, absolutely nothing to do with supply and demand. 🙄🙄🙄

My husband tested Trecarrell House in court and the judge wasn’t interested. He was missing a gas safety certificate from the start of the tenancy because a letting agent he had fired for incompetence claimed it was done but there was no paperwork.

All gas safety certificates done except for the one right at the start of the tenancy.

Judge dismissed Trecarrell House ruling without explaining why.

Why do you keep saying this? It’s not true. A landlord cannot end a tenancy without following the correct process.

You seem to be equating the end of the fixed period with the end of the tenancy (or contract as you call it). Thats not the case.

Good landlords follow the simplest rules. It's not as though OP has fallen foul of some complex, obscure law. It's landlording 101.
And on what basis are most landlords good? That's not remotely my experience.

I don’t see how it can work . Landlord wants to evict so says they want to sell property . Property doesn’t sell so back on the rental market .

They are replacing S21 with new grounds that allow a landlord to do exactly that. The difference is the landlord now needs to prove that’s why they are serving notice.

Not entirely- landlords will still have more liberty to serve notice on a tenant than the did 30 years ago. The RRB isn’t heralding in some new previously unheard of restrictions on landlords.

@FancyCatSlave Just pointing out that as a landlord you don’t have any legal right to insist on a fixed term contract at renewal if a tenant doesn’t want one. The tenant has the legal right to refuse a new fixed term and the tenancy automatically becomes a rolling contract. You can decline to accept a rolling contract as a landlord - but you can’t prevent it if it automatically becomes an rolling at the end of the fixed term period, and you can’t force a fixed term on a tenant who doesn’t want it. I had a landlord who tried this shit too. Once. Also reprehensible if you’ve been automatically issuing and insisting on them.