What Should I Do If My Tenant Has Gone Into Administration?

This is the fifth in a series of blogs giving advice to a landlord facing a tenant in administration. The issues are relatively straightforward:-

1. As we have discussed previously, if the tenant assets have been pre-packed, you will be faced with a third party.  If they are going to stay for a relatively short space of time then all you can do is get someone down there to the site, even if it is just to take a photographic record of the state of the place so if they cause any damage you can go after them.  You might also be able to agree with them what, if anything, they are allowed to take away as tenant items, rather than landlord's fixtures and fittings.  At the same time, you can extract any information that is available that you might not have had e.g. lift maintenance records, building maintenance information etc.