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Business Solutions Group, Shergroup, has published an easy to use link on its enforcement services website for landlords needing to enforce a possession order in the High Court. The service, which was designed and trailblazed by Shergroup, has been moved into an online form to give more access to landlords across England and Wales. Once completed and submitted, Shergroup manage the entire process of transferring and enforcing a county court order of possession. The benefit to landlords is shortening the time for enforcement which in reduces the risk of lost rental income.
The online form, is reached through a portal where the landlord registers as a client of Shergroup. Once registered the landlord can complete the form and submit a possession case for Shergroup’s enforcement division. Other resources include a no-nonsense fact sheet containing useful information for landlords. Many landlords face the challenge of persuading a District Judge to exercise his or her discretion so as to allow the enforcement process to take place in the higher court. Shergroup also has a human face to the service where expert Business Solutions Advisors are on hand to help in completing forms, explain the process and liaise with the landlord on the optimum window for enforcement.
Interested parties are invited to review the online service on Shergroup’s enforcement division website at: http://www.shergroup.net/enforcement/
By clicking on the link “Instruct Us Now” on the window entitled “Enforce Possession Against Tenants”, a landlord, letting agent, or legal advisor is taken through a simple registration or login process. Once into Shergroup’s system, the user just completes the online form which contains all the fields of information needed to transfer an order from one court to another.
But why transfer? The advantage is all about closing the gap on delay which is often found in the county court system between the date the order for possession is granted, and the date of any eventual eviction date. If this period runs to more than 4 weeks, then the amount of lost rent can have an adverse impact on the landlord’s cashflow. The High Court enforcement system looks to enforce the county court possession order within days, subject to certain Rules being followed, which give the tenant adequate notice of the intention to enforce using High Court Enforcement Officers.
Shergroup has developed its transfer process to handle outcomes including when permission is exercised under Section 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 along with situations when permission is not granted and a landlord is looking for more support.
When asked for more information about this online service, and what they hope to accomplish with it, Claire Sandbrook, Shergroup CEO at Shergroup said: “Our online form is designed to make it easy for our landlord clients and their advisors to manage the risks that come from the enforcement of the court’s order for possession. Delay in the eviction process can leave landlords with significant shortfalls in rental income. We want to stop this from happening wherever possible”.
Landlords of all types and anybody interested in transferring orders for possession from the county court to the High Court are invited to review this online resource by registering as a user at http://www.shergroup.net/enforcement/
More information about Shergroup itself can be found at http://www.shergroup.net/enforcement/
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