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When tenants aren’t playing nice, what you do next will set the course for events to follow. These guidelines from eviction experts can help to avoid costly mistakes.
How Solid Is Your Residential Lease Agreement?
It has already been established in our step-wise guide for Landlords, how a well drafted lease agreement can simplify matters for the Landlord in the event of breach by the Tenant and also help to avoid unpleasant and costly rental disputes. Read: How To Evict A...
Spoliation And Illegal Eviction
Spoliation is usually the first thing that jumps to mind when a landlord is confronted with a problem tenant or illegal occupant. By resorting to creative, illegal tactics to get rid of the problem, a landlord could be putting an informed tenant in control...
How To Evict A Tenant
Tenant Not Paying Rent, Now What? Landlord-Tenant disputes come in many different shapes and forms but to best explain the process a Landlord could follow when a Tenant breaches the lease agreement, let's consider the most common scenario where a Tenant defaults on...
PIE Evictions
Prevention of Illegal Evictions from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act (PIE) PIE sets out procedural and substantive requirements that must be satisfied before a court may grant an order of eviction. The procedural protection that PIE affords occupants...
ESTA Evictions
Extension of Security of Tenure Act (ESTA) ESTA applies only to occupiers of rural or peri-urban land, whose occupation is, or was, lawful in that they resided on the land with the consent of the owner. Occupiers under ESTA may not earn more than...
The Magistrates’ Court Act
The landlord's tacit hypothec gives the landlord the right to attach all movable property, brought onto the property, in order to collect rent arrears. It is a powerful weapon against a defaulting tenant and can secure the landlord’s claim for payment of...
Rental Housing Amendment Bill
The Rental Housing Amendment Bill was accepted by the National Assembly on 9 September 2014. It was however recalled for argument after just a few days. The main reason for further argument at this stage was that the committee wanted to do away with the term...
Lease Agreements & The Consumer Protection Act
The Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 has considerable impact on lease agreements. The Act has been passed in order to regulate and normalise the relationships between the suppliers of various goods and services and their consumers in the marketplace. In order to...
Rental Housing Act
The Rental Housing Act (RHA) bears specific reference to the termination of the lease agreement. Section 5(5) of the Act states: If on expiration of the lease the tenant remains in the dwelling with the express or tacit consent of the landlord, the parties are deemed...
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