For most landlords the top two priorities are:

• protecting your investment
• protecting your rental income

We aim to prevent avoidable problems and deal swiftly with the unavoidable ones, minimising your costs and loss of income.    

Our landlord service supports all Landlords, large or small, from corporate household names to buy to let investors or those with a single property.

Our expertise

Our established team of expert lawyers has a wealth of experience which we utilise in helping and advising Landlords as to their rights and responsibilities.

Disputes

Every day we successfully represent a wide range of clients on all aspects of property disputes, including:

• landlord and tenant
• possession claims
• dilapidations
• squatter evictions
• tenancy disputes
• service charge recovery/disputes
• breach of covenants
• leasehold disputes
• leasehold enfranchisement and right to manage

Landlord services: How we can help you

• Landlord advice line - you can access quality advice on a range of property management issues
• Drafting and reviewing your documentation - we ensure landlords avoid problems and remain protected by drafting and maintaining all key documents
• Pre-action advice and statutory notices - on occasion your tenants may let you down, so we'll help maintain control and remove some of the stress by ensuring the appropriate notices are served correctly 
• Possession proceedings - we guide you through the court process from start to finish, whatever the circumstances, ensuring the landlord's case is robustly pursued and your interests protected
• Service charge, rent and dilapidation actions and enforcement - we employ an effective commercial approach to recover service changes, rent or damages from a defaulting tenant or guarantor.  We can also provide guidance on the most appropriate method of enforcement to give you the greatest chance of recovering your monies
• Landlord defence - more and more tenants are making claims against their landlord under the Protection from Eviction Act, and harassment allegations under the Protection from Harassment Act. We can help with your defence in these difficult situations

Why use Access Legal from Shoosmiths?

• we're open and up front about our fees, offering fixed fees across a variety of landlord services
• quality staff coupled with excellent systems minimise time spent in litigation, helping keep your costs down and your income stream protected
• we understand landlord's needs, and so focus on proactive issue management

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