About Tessa Shepperson
Tessa Shepperson, the author of the Evicting Squatter Kit, is a solicitor, author and specialist in residential landlord and tenant law.
Tessa practices as a ’sole practitioner’, mainly through her online service Landlord Law, which she set up in late 2001. Landlord Law is largely a ‘do-it-yourself’ site, where members are provided with legal information and forms so they can deal with the legal aspects of renting out property themselves.
Shortly after setting up the site, Tessa wrote her first kit, which was for landlords bringing a County Court claim for rent arrears. Subsequent kits included a kit for tenants claiming back their tenancy deposit where it had been wrongfully withheld by their landlord, and several kits for claiming possession of properties.
One of these was the Evicting Squatters kit. Tessa had long felt that the process of going to court to get a possession order against squatters was something that non lawyers could do without too much trouble, if only they had a certain amount of guidance. This kit was the result.
As well as the Landlord Law site and this Evicting Squatters site, Tessa writes a blog, The Landlord Law Blog, and runs a small site aimed at landlords taking in lodgers, called the Lodger Landlord.
She has also written several books, published by Law Pack Publishing. The Complete Guide to Residential Letting: The Smart Landlord’s Guide to Renting Out Property
Tessa is married and lives in Norwich with her husband and son.
