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Rented house,sitting tennant???

from david (stitsevol@aol.com)
I have a very close friend who has rented a property for three and a half years,the property is in a terrible state of repair. She has looked after the house to the best of her ability and budget with little or no help from the landlord, she moved in on an assured shorthold tenancy which expired after six months after which the landlord said "we don't need an agreement between us" so she has in fact lived there for over three years with no written agreement and in that time the rent has been increased several times. The landlord now informs her that he was only waiting for the housing market to reach a peak and that the time has now come to kick her out, my questions are 1,Is she in fact a sitting tenant in view of the fact she has lived there three years without a tenancy agreement? 2,Can he just in fact evict her even though the agreement ran out several years since? 3,Could she claim back all or some of the increased back rent due to the fact that it went against the terms of the original agreement and there was never any written notice of an increase? 4,Would it strengthen her case if she were to go and get the rent regulated? and where does she apply?
(posted 7096 days ago)

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