Your Section 13 Notice Prepared and Served

At least two months from when the tenant is treated as receiving the notice. We add two working days for postal service, so the earliest start date the wizard allows is a little over two months from posting.

No. One Section 13 increase in any twelve-month period, and the first increase can't take effect until twelve months after the tenancy started.

They can apply to the First-tier Tribunal before the start date. The tribunal decides the market rent but cannot set it higher than the rent you proposed. If they challenge, the new rent applies from the tribunal's decision rather than your notice date, and the tribunal can delay it by up to two more months in cases of hardship.

Each joint tenant should receive the notice. We post one copy to each tenant at the property in a separate tracked envelope, so you have a scan against each name.

Royal Mail Tracked 24 aims for next working day delivery with full tracking. The certificate of service we produce records the method as first class post or a service providing next business day delivery, which is the category Tracked 24 falls into.

Court form N215, completed with the posting date, tracking number, tenant name and address. You sign the statement of truth only if you ever need to rely on it in a dispute. It comes with our own statement of posting as supporting evidence.

The wizard won't let you. It checks the two-month rule, the twelve-month rule and the rent period alignment before you can pay, and shows the earliest valid date.

No. PostRight completes and serves the official form based on the answers you give. If your tenancy is unusual, take advice before serving.

You can. The fee is for the parts that go wrong: the two-month period, the twelve-month rule, the start date, one tracked copy per tenant, and the certificate of service if the tenant says it never arrived. Letting agents charge from about £210 for the same job.

Sign before 2.30pm on a working day and it is printed and posted the same day. After 2.30pm, or at the weekend, it goes the next working day. You get the tracking number by email once Royal Mail scans it.

Your notice goes by Royal Mail Tracked 24, and we email you the tracking number. We also send your free certificate of service (N215), pre-filled from our posting records, so you have evidence it was posted.