I run a supported living matchmaking business. In January, I could have served Section 21 on my own tenants. I didn’t.    I have a few buy-to-lets. Long tenants. Loyal tenants. The kind who pay on time and call me when the boiler breaks, not when the rent is due.    In December I sat with the spreadsheet. I could convert those properties to supported living. Same rent, sometimes more. Less stress. Cleaner pipeline. Every number said yes.    My head said serve the notice. It is a business.    My heart said good tenants are rare, and you do not turn someone’s life upside down for a headache that might never happen.    I chose the heart. I did not serve the notice.    Here is what I am sitting with this weekend, nine days out from 1 May.  After Section 21 goes, the only route back is Section 8. Section 8 means a County Court Judgment on the tenant. Before, a landlord and a tenant could sit down together, agree a walk-away, and nobody carried it into the next chapter of their life.    Landlords have been losing sleep about losing Section 21. Tenants are about to lose sleep too.    We were never on opposite sides. The noise just made it feel like we were.    Only time will tell me if January was the right call. I believe in karma. Maybe that is naïve. I am fine with that.    #Landlord #Section21 #RentersRightsAct #PropertyInvesting   

Posted by Nisha Patel at 2026-05-06 10:57:14 UTC