Landlords’ rights

SIR – Just about every new piece of legislation Michael Gove has proposed (report, June 16) favours the tenant.

I am all for tenants having security of tenure but, equally, I do like them to pay their rent. I have just had a tenant leave owing £6,000 in rent and have paid about £5,500 to get the property back into a lettable condition.

Although there are many S21 (no fault) evictions, this does not mean that there really was no fault. A previous tenant of mine was “taken over”, by a drug gang, which involved a property being raided by the police. (All damage caused by police, and there was plenty, is for the landlord to repair.) We used