Rent Arrears

Once we have successfully secured the vacant possession of your property, you may still be left owing thousands of pounds from your tenant. We provide a number of options to assist you in the recovery of any outstanding monies as follows small claims action, attachment of earnings, earnings arrestment and bailiff action, etc.

Even after successfully securing the vacant possession of the property, you could still be left owed thousands of pounds from your tenant

Once we have successfully secured the vacant possession of your property, you may still be left owing thousands of pounds from your tenant. Agent Assist provide a number of options to assist you in the recovery of any outstanding monies as follows

English / Welsh Services

  1. Small Claim Summons
    We arrange the preparation and drafting of a small claims summons. This strategy can be suitable for debts of up to £5,000.


  2. Attachment Of Earnings
    For Client's that have utilised our Tenant Tracing service or where the location of the tenants employer is known it may be appropriate to invoke an attachment of earnings application. Particularly where a judgement has been obtained its recovery is often possible via this method whereby the tenants employer deducts the debt direct from their salary.


  3. Third Party Debt Order
    A third party debt order is an order to a third party who owes money to the defendant to pay it to the Claimant instead. Most orders are aimed at the defendants bank account. In certain circumstances this can be a suitable method of reclaiming debts from defaulting tenants.


  4. Charging Order
    Where the tenant and/or any guarantor is the legal owner of a property, and we have obtained a money judgement from the County Court, we can arrange for the application to be made on your behalf, to obtain a charging order on the property. This means the property cannot be sold or remortgaged without the debt being attended to.


  5. Bailiff's Execution Of Goods
    Landlord Assist can organise instruction for the county court bailiffs to attend the debtor's address and attempt to seize the debtors goods set against the money order obtained against the tenant.

    Alternatively the debt can be transferred to the High Court to allow collection via a High Court Enforcement Officer. Such enforcement Officers collection rates are monitored by the Ministry of Justice and the national average collection rate is 67p in the pound.


  6. Bankruptcy/ Winding Up
    We can arrange for a statutory demand to be served, by hand, on the tenant and or guarantor or a winding up demand in the case of a Company Let. This is a twenty one day demand, demanding that the debtor pays the monies owed. If they fail to do so, then they have the threat of bankruptcy or winding up.

Scottish Services

  1. Small Claims Action
    We will arrange for the preparation and drafting of the claim. Potentially suitable where the debt is up to £3,000. In the event that the claim is for more than £3,000 then a Summary Cause Summons can be issued.


  2. Earnings Arrestment
    For Clients that have utilised our tenant tracing service or know where their tenant is now residing we can arrange for an application to be made whereby the employer of the tenant will make deductions from their salary to repay the debt owed.


  3. Inhibition Order
    Where the tenant or Guarantor is the owner of a property we can arrange to make an application to the courts on your behalf for an inhibition order so that the property cannot be sold nor transferred without the debt being attended to.


  4. Exceptional Arrestment
    This method is used to engage a sherriff officer to attend the premises and seize goods which will be used to repay the debt.