What Is A Notice To Quit?

A notice to quit allows you to end your tenancy with your tenant whether they agree to it or not. You will need to serve your tenant with a valid notice to quit depending on what grounds you are evicting them on. This can be in the form of a section 8 notice or section 21 notice.

Our notices have been put together by our team of solicitors who are specialists in tenant eviction. They are regulated by the solicitors regulatory authority and are also members of the law society.

Our notices are checked regularly by our team of solicitors to make sure they have been put together correctly and are up to date.

Make Sure Your Notice To Quit Is Valid

You need to make sure that you serve your tenant with a notice to quit that has been filled in and completed correctly. If you serve your tenant with an invalid notice to quit they will have a complete defence against you if you ever end up going to court.

This means that if the judge thinks you have served an invalid notice he or she may throw the case out of court and ask you to serve another notice to quit which is correct.

You will need to sign your notice to quit and clearly show when it expires. You will also need to give your tenant the correct length of time to leave your property and make sure that it expires on the correct day.

When The Notice To Quit Expires

If your tenant does not leave the property when your notice to quit expires then you will need to issue them with possession proceedings and take them to court.

If you are successful at court and have done everything correctly, the judge will grant you with a possession order and ask the tenant to leave your property by a set date. The judge will usually give your tenant around 14 days to leave.

If your tenant still does not leave then you will need to have them physically removed by bailiffs.

Serve Your Notice To Quit Now

You will need to serve either a section 8 or section 21 notice to quit depending on what grounds you are evicting your tenant on.