The Telegraph chats to a Landlord Action enforcer, whose job it is to aid landlords evict non-paying tenants.

Even if you act quickly, the process of evicting troublesome tenants is going to take at least five months, from start to finish. On top of which, you're having to wait longer now for bailiffs, who've become a lot busier since the economic downturn.

That's a long time to wait without any income, and the insult added to the injury is that errant tenants regularly trash the gaff, too, leaving thousands of pounds in repairs. Oddly, I wasn't aware of Landlord Action. They take the whole eviction process, from serving notice to kicking to the curb, off a landlord's hands, charging for each step separately. They're also involved in debt recovery. Clearly, a landlords can take all this on themselves, but I can see the sense in passing it to an organisation with lots of experience.

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