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Friday, December 10, 2010

Costs of evicting your tenant

As I know to my cost if you try and evict a tenant then don't expect all your costs to be covered.

It is possible to attempt to reclaim some of the charges including the court costs of £150.

However, miscellaneous costs including the time taken in researching and preparing the case may not be claimable.  This is somewhat of a grey area and I have heard some views that it is possible to make a claim based on a proportion of the expected solicitors fees.

Any further clarification on this would be greatly appreciated.

Specialist landlord insurance

3 comments:

Javed Khan said...

I got approx £550 back when I evicted.

Landlord Action arranged it all for me, I didn't even ask.

I think it is discretionary depnding on the judge you get.

Not sure though.

The Editor said...

Hi Javed, I've come across this article.http://blog.propertyhawk.co.uk/2009/09/court-costs-can-i-charge-for-my-time.html

In theory it is possible for landlords to claim back some of their time as legal costs. However, as you mentioned I'm sure a great deal of the success in this will be dependent on the Judge.

lilpixie said...

My understanding is that a litigant in person is entitled to two thirds of solicitors fixed costs