Landlords - gaining possession of your property
You cannot make a tenant leave by intimidation, violence, withholding services such as gas or electricity or denying access by changing the locks. This is illegal.
The GOV.UK website has full information on the process of evicting tenants.
Retaliatory eviction
You cannot evict your tenants unfairly, if they have made a genuine complaint about you. This is known as retaliatory eviction. You cannot evict a tenant for six months if all the following conditions have been met:
- Your tenant has made a genuine complaint about their property which you have not addressed
- The complaint has been verified by us
- We have served either an improvement notice or a notice of emergency remedial action
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