The long-running dispute between the National Landlords Association and the NFRL has finally drawn to a close.
Eleven members of the NFRL, or the National Federation for Residential Landlords, to give it its full name, filed a legal challenge against the NLA following the merger of the two last year.
The case became almost farcical, with scenarios of rival landlord groups raiding each others offices, changing locks and stealing computers appearing in the press.
The squabble finally lead to the NLA obtaining a court injunction against Michael Stimpson, the former NFRL president, that forbade him from coming within 100m of its office.
Now, however, landlords can rest easy once again. The court threw out the case this week, leaving the NLA with a combined organisation of nearly 20,000 members and causing relieved NLA chairman David Salusbury to sigh: "It is a relief that this episode is now over. "
The judge also ordered that the victorious NLA would have their legal cost repaid by the claimants - believed to be as much as £8,000...
and you thought the MPS were bad - The NLA are creating and suggesting ways of making their fat cat Directors even more money. How much do you think they got from the tenancy deposit scheme; I nice little bonus for Colonel Blimp!