Debt recovery

Help 4 Landlords provide tenant debt collection and previous tenant debt recovery services for landlords across the UK.

Help4landlords provides many forms of tenant debt recovery services. Whether you are owed rent from a previous tenant, a difficult customer who is refusing to pay up or an individual who refuses to repay you at all, our professional and robust tenant debt collection and recovery services deal with all situations in a fast and professional manner.

  • We can make a claim for you even if the debt was owed five years ago.
  • If the court rules in your favour you could also be entitled to interest on top the debt owed, currently this stands at 8% per annum.

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We are here to assist those in immediate need of legal assistance, that's why we can be contacted 7 days a week.

help4landlords.co.uk or call 0207 993 6642

So what types of tenant debt recovery services do Help4landlords provide?

Attachment of Earnings
- fixed fee £350.00

An attachment of earnings order is a method by which money will be stopped from the debtor's wages to pay a debt and as such will only help if the defendant is in paid employment.

Before you choose this tenant debt collection method, the following requirements must be met:

  1. the debtor must be behind with at least one payment (called 'being in arrears'); and
  2. the amount he or she still owes you must be £50 or more

Letter before Action
- fixed fee £125.00*

*If the debt is £2,000 or more and is recovered as a result of our Letter before Action then we will retain 6% of the proceeds recovered.

What we do

We will write to your debtor informing them that unless you receive full payment of the debt within 7 days you will take court action against them.

After the 7 days have expired we will contact you to ask whether the debt has been paid or if there has been any progress. We will then ask you whether you would like to issue the claim at court.

The letter before action is important because if no opportunity is given to the debtor to pay the debt before the issue of court action, the court may not order the debtor to pay your legal costs.

Note - if the debtor sends you payment for less than the full debt indicating that it is in full and final settlement and you take that payment, then you will be deemed to have accepted that amount in full and final settlement and you will lose your right to claim the remaining amount or any interest due.

Small Claims Summons**
- fixed fee £350.00

If you are owed a fixed sum of money up to £5,000 then this option is also available to you.

We will obtain the necessary information, prepare the claim form and issue this at court.

Bankruptcy demand**
- fixed fee £320.00

We will prepare the statutory demand and then instruct a process server to personally serve the document on the debtor.

 

Charging Order**
- fixed fee £549.00

A charging order is a court order to enforce a County Court judgement. If a creditor obtains a County Court judgment because the debtor did not pay a debt and did not keep to the payments set, a court can place a charging order on the debtor's property.

A charging order gives the creditor security for the debt, in other words the debt would become "secured" like a mortgage on the debtor's house or other land.

Order for sale

If a creditor has been successful in obtaining a Charging Order (final) against the debtor's property, the creditor may in some circumstances (e.g. if any conditions or terms attached to the order have not been met) make an application to court for an Order for Sale of the debtor's property.

An Order for Sale is a court order to sell the property which is subject to a Charging Order so the debt can be paid out of the proceeds of the sale.

Please email us at info@help4landlords.co.uk to discuss this further.

Do not throw good money after bad. Sometimes it is better to learn from your mistakes and move on.

You can instruct us even if the debt was owed 5 years ago.

What now?

Get a trace and asset search conducted now.

Email us at debts@help4landlords.co.uk or call our free advice line on 0207 993 5085 for further information on our tenant debt collection and recovery services.

**Before you proceed with any form of tenant debt recovery action, we advice that you have help4landlords tracing service conducted. Unless we know where the debtor lives, we cannot serve any legal documents. Also, what if we you know where the debtor lives but you do not think that there are any assets which can be sold to repay your debt? In such circumstances we recommend that you have our trace and asset search conducted, so that you know whether the debtor owns any assets which can be sold to repay your debt and if it is even worth your time and money to pursue the debtor in the first place.

'Help4landlords is a trading name of UK Property Assistance Ltd a company registered in England and Wales, registration No. 07405204
Tenant Debt Recovery - Tenant Debt Collection

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