I’ve experienced – and suspect other landlords & agents have too - tenants serving NTQs by various media (TXT, voicemail, email…very occasionally on paper...) and with varyingly good/bad/equivocal wording and dates and wondering, is it valid? Perhaps some help in deciding if a notice is valid may help all.
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Hopefully it may help tenants, landlords and agents – etc etc - if sources of information on tenant’s notices to quit – for England - are in one place. For the avoidance of doubt this definitely doesn’t cover Scotland or NI.
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As usual Mssrs Shelter are – usually - reliable experts on housing matters: Herewith their (current) web pages on notices during fixed term…
There has also been a recent bulletin from the National Homelessness Advice Service - NHAS is a partnership between Shelter and Citizens Advice, funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government -
- providing as part, pages 6&7 of 10 of the bulletin, great detail on the subject, apparently the first of two articles.
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(Minor points, must get out more) the article mentions one of my favourite housing cases, Crate v Miller, 1947, another case from 1806 & that old landlord favourite, s18 of the Distress for Rent Act, 1737.
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I’ll try & post a link when the second article appears.
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Perhaps PT members can highlight any errors in any of the sources listed (I offer £25 to an agreed housing charity for the best howler spotted - including in my wording in this post), and note any other helpful sources for the benefit of all.
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Having said all that, my view is it ain’t worth bad-blood arguing about e.g. one day or so early/late, but others may hold alternative views.
