Good tenant selection can go a long way to reducing the likelihood that you will have to go through the eviction process, but the fact still remains that there is highly unlikely to be a landlord anywhere in the UK who is 100% immune from the possibility of needing to evict a tenant.
In the old days, landlords could simply turn up (with the help of some ‘muscle’) and order a tenant to leave. Those days are long gone and while no reputable landlord is likely to want to see them back, all landlords absolutely must familiarise themselves with new rules relating to evictions.
The basics of evictions
If a landlord wishes to evict tenants they must use either a Section 8 notice (where a tenant has given grounds for eviction) or a Section 21 notice (if the tenant is not at fault in any way).