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Fery  Lavassani
Fery Lavassani
Residential Landlord
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A fed up landlord.

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Landlord in private residential sector since 1989.

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Catharine, I am an accredited member of the NRLA. In fact I have been a member for almost twelve years. I participate in all surveys, but do not recall one particularly on abolition of Section 21. I send a message on Instagram to Ben Beadle, specifically telling him that Mr. Beadle on the issue of Section 21, "you sold us out". He came back furiously defending his stance by saying that he was pushing for the court system to be somehow overhauled and become fit for the purpose, before Section 21 is abolished. My point was that the same way Shelter, Generation Rent and Acorn are pushing for the abolition of Section 21, the NRLA as our representative, must fight to keep this vital Section operative for landlord at the end of the tenancies. I further explained to him that by making sure that the courts speed up the hearing of the cases, your problems would not be solved. Those of you who have been through operation of Section 8, fully well know that the judge will not give you more than five or ten minutes, if you lucky, to hear your case. Then all you need is a clever tenant come on the hearing and "cough" in front of the honourable district judge and falsely claim mould and disrepair. Something that was never been mentioned before. Now you have got yourself a counter claim. The tenant is entitled to legal aid and surveyor's fees. The arrears will be written off against the compensation claim from the tenant side. On a case of rent arrears, the most common cases under Section 8 for obtaining an eviction order, you will have to start all over again waiting for the rent arrears to add up to two months and pay legal and surveyor fees . Cut the long story short, you will be thousands of pounds out of pocket with no fault of your own. Like Ellie said, I am now 66 and have been a landlord since 1983, I know what will happen when Section 21 is abolished and open ended tenancies are introduced. So for these reasons and as a matter of experience, I am out.

From: Fery Lavassani 30 October 2023 08:00 AM

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From: Fery Lavassani 19 October 2023 12:39 PM

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Furthermore Michael, like yourself I had protected tenant back in 1986. She passed away in 1991. Then her daughter inherited the tenancy until 2014. The rent was £40.oo a week, for a three-bed semi and she was behind round about £2000.00. In 2014 she passed away and the tenancy was passed to the grand daughter (she was 32 years of age by then). Then the tenancy was no longer protected and became Assured Tenancy. For those who do not know the difference between Assured Shorthold and Assured, on Assured tenancy you cannot issue Section 21 but you can issue Section 8 for rent arrears. Also, the market rent applies. Housing benefit was paying the £433.33 and the tenant never passed the rent to me. Cut the long story short. I issued Section 8 Notice and before that I asked her if there was anything wrong with the property? She said everything is fine. Guess what happened on the Hearing Day, you guessed right, claim for disrepair. Completely false. The duty solicitor in the court taught her that. Then the solicitors instructed a chartered surveyor to survey the property. Hardly and disrepair he found except a couple of minor things. I was also pushed to withdraw my claim for rent arrears, and she would withdraw her disrepair claim. Then I had to instruct my own chartered surveyor that cost £700.00 plus VAT. At that stage the Housing Benefit was paid into my account. Market rent £750.00 Council paid £433.33. A sum of £266.66 shortfall every month. At that rate took 7 months for her to be behind by 2 months as required under Section 8. The day before the Hearing, the council deposited my account by £2133.36 as a one-off Emergency Payment. We had to wait another 7 months again. But this time she was offered a flat and I got my property back. Never never never again. I have sold one last week and Have served Section 21 on every other tenant. If this white paper becomes legislation, then RIP PRS.

From: Fery Lavassani 27 November 2022 10:37 AM

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From: Fery Lavassani 04 November 2022 07:10 AM

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From: Fery Lavassani 27 July 2022 07:59 AM

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Jim, Section 21 Notice currently needs 6 months notice. due to Covid. It has been increased from two months requirement. For Section 8 Notice, currently you will have to give 6 months notice if arrears are less that six months and 4 weeks notice if arrears are more that six months. So the tenant gets minimum seven months rent free before you submit your claim. Then wait for the Hearing date and walk to the unknown. Whereas Section 21 not only takes less time, but guarantee you result. We used to submit the application and guaranteed within 14 days or sometimes even less, get the possession. Whereas with Section 8, which is a fault based section, rent arrears is one subsection. Of course the common one is that of rent arrears. AS we all know, the tenant has to be two months or more behind, on the date of submission of application and on the Hearing date (that was the case prior to covid). Like Bhala said, just prior to the actual Hearing, the tenant, by making a small payment, clears enough arrears for the judge to throw the case out. If a tenant through the Hearing claims disrepair, then automatically you have a counterclaim. After the work is done, if there is any work to be done, you then need evidence to show the work has actually been done. That is when you need your own surveyor's report. I do not know which area Jim is operating from. But before the Covid, West Midland County Courts took 7 months to hear a Section 8 claim and Manchester was 4 months. In my opinion, when first you see the tenant is falling behind, then why wait two months to be able Section 8? Initiate Section 21 by serving A6 on the tenant, where you are guaranteed possession hassle free.

From: Fery Lavassani 25 April 2021 08:18 AM

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