UK Landlord Forum / Life

help anybody please,
have a tenant on 6 mths shorthold tenancy, nightmare paying rent and at month 5 finally agreed to go, he gave us one months written notice, he is currently 6 weeks in arrears and is now refusing to go on the date he originally gave us.
can i legally get him out as he has given us written notice, or do i have to go s21 route and wait another 2months,
any help would be good thankyou

Quote from: tracey middle on January 06, 2014, 10:41:12 AM
can i legally get him out

What ways were you thinking?  The legal way to me is for him to leave when he said he would or via the Section 21 / Section 8 route.  I can't see how you can get him out any other way at this stage.  Why didn't you give him a section 21 months ago?

As the tenant is 6 weeks in arrears, I think you can use Section 8 to evict him as that is one of the grounds for evicting. This should take a lot less than two months and by the time the Court gave you a date he would be at least two months in arrears which is the minimum period they should be in arrears.