Street by street surveys are underway in London by a council that wants to catch out landlords who have forgotten or avoided buying a license.
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Landlord fined £5,000 after failing to get HMO licence
A landlord in Colchester has been handed a £5,000 civil penalty notice for failing to license his unsafe HMO.
Following a complaint made one of the tenants, the council’s private sector housing team discovered that a family of four and two unrelated men were living in a four-bedroom flat.
Read MoreCOURTS (rent to rent): Landlord wins ‘important’ appeal in rent to rent case
Landlord Amlendu Kumar has successfully appealed against a Rent Repayment Order for his Tooting property after a ‘rent to rent’ company he contracted with turned into an illegal HMO without his knowledge.
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