Private rental, and due to severe failing health the landlord hasnt been able to chase anything up personally. Hence where we are stepping in to find out what can (if anything) be done about this.

The lease is week by week as far as I am aware. Im not sure if it was originally a verbal lease (gosh I hope not!) or written. But the tenant has definitely gone over the original time frame into week by week.

Ive had a look at the fair trading website and it seems to indicate that where arrears is 14 days behind then 14 notice may be given for termination, but then if the tenant catches up the arrears or makes a suitable payment plan than they can stay on site. From what I can tell there is no notice needed (not that we would be that uncompassionate!) for "Premises destroyed or wholly or partly uninhabitable/cease to be useable as a residence/appropriated/acquired by authority by compulsory process" but Im not sure if that would include the damage that we can see from the road. Its quite significant in that there is an entire panel of the house from midline to ground almost completely smashed in. =/

Does that sound about right? Nothing is ever simple is it?