Section8Eviction.co.uk

Prototype for a site under development

In Britain, the Housing Act provides two ways to repossess property. Section 21 and Section 8. Other legal ways exist, with their own official forms to fill in and processes to follow. A Notice to Quit applies to tenants outside of the protected period. See also a Rent a Room Agreement.

Section 21 is called an uncontested repossession. Which means that councils who do not want the expenditure of people who have been evicted, whom they then have to re-house, or do not want interesting types, simply have to persuade the tenant to contest. By law, the court then has no choice but to throw out your expensive attempt to repossess.

This sharp practice by local authorities became endemic despite the Seven Standards for Public Life which followed the Nolan Report into corruption within local government. That's why we investigated Section 8 "contested" repossessions. Following government guidance published online, we found that we did not need expensive and incompetent solicitors. All that is required is; submit the right forms, and fill them in correctly. That is what the solicitors should be doing for you. They are not strutting up and down pontificating with the judges. They are there as a servant of the court to fill in the right paperwork correctly. The government says that you can do this yourself. We can even help each other, so long as we don't charge. So we ended up collaborating and every attempt since has succeeded first time.

Given our real anger at the protection criminals still get from local authorities who are not serving communities plagued by Anti-Social Behaviour, we think it right that everyone should know the correct forms to fill in, and how to fill them in. It is a bread and butter job. The judges are wanting to help, but from their perspective their hands are tied by law. Until the legally required paperwork is presented to them, their evidence based decision cannot be made. We started off thinking that judges and solicitors knew each other socially. Our observations have been that judges despise incompetent solicitors and judges are paid a lot to make them immune to corruption, by anyone including local government. We also found regarding tenant behaviour, that they have seen it all before.

Our knowledge improved. Under the Financial Services Act, debtors can be found. It needs someone with an expensive licence, which is typically banks and local authorities, but also detective agencies. From a computer desktop, they can see which coffee shops and supermarkets your missing tenants are going into. They can find the addresses given for their mobile phone contract and white goods credit agreements. You really can get an Attachment of Earnings Order or use the Small Claims Court. Collectively we have a social duty to crack down on these serial offenders and separately, to genuinely help them.

We compared what professional letting agencies were doing. They don't all do the same checks so we came up with a combined list. Plus we include in the Tenancy Agreements a consent for debt collection agents to find them, and we added non-payment or late payment of rent into the mandatory grounds (the reasons) for a repossession. From the misery of evil people who "know their rights", supported by local authorities who are ignoring the Seven Principles, and supported by solicitors who give honest solicitors a bad name, came hope

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You could prepare documents and show them to a solicitor to check during the free half-hour. You could use a paralegal, who prepare documents for solicitors. They are covered by the Law Society and you can hire their services far cheaper than a solicitor. At the end of the day, one judge sitting on his or her own wants to read through the correct forms filled in correctly. When they go into the court room, it's only to check that their decision is sensible. The County Court for a repossession never hears "My learned judge". It's administrative.

If this website can pay for itself it's a win-win situation. 95 % of tenants are good. The 5 % who are bad are serial offenders. Society deserves protection. Let's up the standard of our defences. We are society, us. Not that 5 % and their misguided, bigoted or exploitative official and professional supporters.

An income stream to pay for the website might be achieved with adverts which we select. Landlords are faced with common problems. For instance, we are forever swopping locks, so we have a cardboard box full of them. Which means they get old and we encounter at least five different problems with old locks. Keys work from one side only for example. Buying a new lock leads to carpentry problems, then to costs, delays and incompetencies of handymen. What if you were aware of the possibilities and cost-effective solutions ? You could then make informed decisions instead of simply outsourcing every problem with no oversight. That's where proper advertising comes in. From your point of view, adverts with explanations and reasoning. It's called Affiliate Marketing and avoids annoying adverts that are not suitable. From the point of view of Section8Eviction.co.uk, passive income streams sound like pin money.