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- Surely if you (or anyone else reading MSE..) was told this would happen to them in the house they were living in, you'd 'phone the Police/get immediate advice... the balief stated that they would be back at 18:00 with the police to evict them.
I suspect (sadly) that advice was taken and the eviction was found to be "legal": Being "legal" and being just are very different things...
The system is unfair on honest tenants paying rent in good faith...
Shame we don't all know the Landlord's name, address, 'phone number & email ID so we could express our view to him, in a calm & sober manner of course...
Don't suppose he was paying tax on his "earnings" either... they'd be quite good if there was no mortgage payment!!
Cheers!
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Note also at least one MP trying to do something about this sort of situation...
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=21418850 -
Why dont they just
pay the rent
Behave
or whatever the reason was for being lobbed out?
Anyway,most of us,despite the thin veneer, are simply surfs.
Any of us could be lobbed out be we tenant of a landlord or indirect tenant of a building society.
Only the state really owns land in this country.Not individuals.Feudal Britain needs land reform. 70% of the land is "owned" by 1 % of the population and at least 50% is unregistered (inherited by landed gentry). Thats why your slave box costs so much..0 -
Seems to me that most of this is conjecture. None of us, including the OP, know the sequence of events or background to this reposession.
But we do have some of the sequence, this from the OP is the pertinent bit, the tenant moved in after the original notice of repossession:The balief then issued a notice of repossesion to the tenant. They claimed that the original notice was issued on the 28 of october but they only moved into the house on the 2nd of november.
Now I do not see any reason why simply moving a new tenant in after the lender has obtained a repossession order would overturn that order or any notices already served. Thus the new unsuspecting tenant would be chucked out as the OP describes. I do not see a new tenant would have had the opportunity to defend anything in court as clutton said as any court hearings would have already happened before they were even the tenant.
Basically a new tenant has no idea what they are walking into and how far any repossession has got so when a prospective tenant asks about consent to let they need to make sure it's current.0 -
I'm less concerned about the legal niceties in this particular case than I am about the welfare of these unfortunate tenants. What has happened to them OP?0
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When a flat we rented got repossessed, we knew little about it. There were confidential letters for our LL sent to our address, which we duly passed on to our lettings agent (we had never met the LL or knew where they lived). The first we knew about it was when we got an 'Occupier' letter, telling us the date of a court hearing. It was a formality really, we knew we hadn't a leg to stand on, but we went along to find out the date of eviction. We had 3 weeks to find another place.0
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C_Mababejive wrote: »Why dont they just
pay the rent
Behave
or whatever the reason was for being lobbed out?
I think the point is that they *had* paid the rent and behaved. The LL hadn't paid the mortgage, so the tenants got lobbed out with no notice (or only a few hours) and through no fault of their own. Even if this may not have been the case for the OP's neighbour, it does happen.
The thread that theartfullodger mentions asks forum members to lobby their MPs to support an upcoming bill to give tenants in this situation the same 2 months' notice that tenants usually get.
PS liggins - Tenants are *not* currently entitled to 2 months' notice if their LL was letting illegally (ie without consent from their lender). This is what the bill hopes to correct.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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PS liggins - Tenants are *not* currently entitled to 2 months' notice if their LL was letting illegally (ie without consent from their lender). This is what the bill hopes to correct.
But in this case the landlord had consent to let and yet the tenants ere still evicted. Just goes to show that consent to let is not the catch-all it is made out to be. What you really want to do is check that your landlord has funds. If he lives in the locality a drive past his own property may give clues. If it looks to be falling apart then beware, a landlord that can't afford to keep his own place in decent repair is not a good sign.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
If it looks to be falling apart then beware,
Silvercar is right.. (as usual..) but thinking of my own case, I usually live in a place I'm (slowly) doing up so it often/usually looks in worse condition than anything I'm currently renting... Thinks, is that why my tenants eye me warily???
Cheers!
Lodger0
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