Bailiffs coming

sugarpants_2

nearly a year. OMG a year! Thats awful. We feel awful if we miss our rent by a few days!:eek: Hope you get things sorted.

magicgenie wrote: »

Finally, hundreds of pounds and months of waiting, I finally have a bailiffs date to remove my tenants that haven't paid for nearly a year.

I have not been in this position before, can anyone advise, i've been advised to be there with a locksmith, the house is Agent managed, i'm actually working in a different country.

How did it work out for you, changing locks etc - no problem? (they're those modern white PVC doors)

I'd be interested to hear other peoples stories.
brgds
Alex

sugarpants_2

sugarpants wrote: »

nearly a year. OMG a year! Thats awful. We feel awful if we miss our rent by a few days!:eek: Hope you get things sorted.

Let us know what the tenants do after the bailiff visit. Should frighten the jeepers outta them. I bet theyve left you skint eh? One of the downsides of being a LL I guess?

RobertoMoir

clutton wrote: »

""Be polite, patient & considerate to/of the Tenant regardless of your feelings: Tenant has feelings & rights also, and a bumptious Landlord can escalate the situation easily."

were you on the "sauce" last night artful ???


""Tenant has feelings & rights also"" ????? tenants had a "right" and a duty to pay their rent - they brought eviction upon themselves.... sorry... no sympathy from me

considerate to tenants who have shafted you - stole your rent - possibly damaged your property ? ????

get real.....

I don't think they're suggesting taking the tenants out to dinner. However, the more the LL, bailiff and locksmith behave calmly and professionally the less trouble there is likely to be.

franklee

clutton wrote: »

on the rare occasions i have evicted tenants (2 in 10 years) - on one occasion i did not go - but sent an agent - i would have slapped the tenant involved had i gone - (long story) - and the second occasion i planned to go and gloat from across the street, but they had moved out the previous day - darn it !

You run a business, you know the risks so at the end of the day you have to put your own business interests and welfare before that of any "revenge" of slapping tenants. If the landlord loses it on the last day then he/she risks being the one cautioned by the police and thus hands the role of gloater to the tenant. Just not worth it IMO.

theartfullodger

Sigh!!

And to think some Landlords wonder why on earth would some tenants think they should not trust Landlords... Brilliant!

Cheers!

Lodger

nickyc_2

I'm hoping this doesn't happen to you but -after a year of tenant not paying rent and the courts finally sending the bailiffs, on the day of the eviction my tenant went to court (for the first time in the whole process) and said he had a child living with him and so the court deferred the eviction for 2 weeks. Unfortunately for me the bailiffs were very busy so it was another 5 weeks after that they finally went round and the tenant left.
On a more positive note, your agent should be able to arrange to meet the bailiffs and also to have a locksmith on hand to replace the locks.
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good luck

clutton_2

franklee - the whole point about my telling the forum how i felt about these particular tenants AND the fact that i kept away on the eviction day shows that i do act professionally - i am not a physical sort of person - i just said i would have liked to have slapped them ..... we can all plot revenge in our head and then take no action - no harm comes of that ....

i do suspect that all this "lets be nice and kind to the poor departing evicted tenants" advice is coming from folks who have never been conned, cheated, stolen from and shafted by utterly irresponsible thieves - who steal from the state (LHA) - and thus all tax payers - and who steal from landlords also - why should these folks be treated with any degree of respect - they dont respect anyone else ......

franklee

clutton wrote: »

franklee - the whole point about my telling the forum how i felt about these particular tenants AND the fact that i kept away on the eviction day shows that i do act professionally - i am not a physical sort of person - i just said i would have liked to have slapped them ..... we can all plot revenge in our head and then take no action - no harm comes of that ....

i do suspect that all this "lets be nice and kind to the poor departing evicted tenants" advice is coming from folks who have never been conned, cheated, stolen from and shafted by utterly irresponsible thieves - who steal from the state (LHA) - and thus all tax payers - and who steal from landlords also - why should these folks be treated with any degree of respect - they dont respect anyone else ......

Well I didn't read any of the posts as let's be polite etc. to the tenants for the tenant's benefit. It's for the landlord's benefit to protect his own business interests - so it was good advice IMO. Landlords aren't above the law, any more than any other business who has a non-payer which certainly isn't restricted to landlords. By your own actions you showed you know that too so why be down on those to advised the OP to be sensible and do as you did

RobertoMoir

clutton wrote: »

i do suspect that all this "lets be nice and kind to the poor departing evicted tenants" advice is coming from folks who have never been conned, cheated, stolen from and shafted by utterly irresponsible thieves - who steal from the state (LHA) - and thus all tax payers - and who steal from landlords also - why should these folks be treated with any degree of respect - they dont respect anyone else ......

Actually in my case the advice to behave in a professional manner at all times is coming from a former bailiff who, with the greatest of respect, has probably handled a lot more evictions than you and managed to get shot at in the course of serving an eviction warrant against someone before.

Don't tell me I haven't seen what it's like out there.

clutton_2

You have my greatest of respect - ""managed to get shot at in the course of serving an eviction warrant against someone before"" -

OMG !!!!!

i would not want your job for anything - no tenant wants a bailiff - but 99% of prospective tenants want a decent landlord......