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Advice please, uncommon situation
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What do you plan to do? Serve notice on your tenant (relative) now? Will this cause ructions in the family because of the relationships involved? Do you expect that they will soon stop paying the rent?
Not sure what to do really and I am all set for the rent being short, allowed to go into arrears and then the mess of sorting it all out. All the while hearing the reasons behind the hard luck story and being made to feel mean by asking for what is rightfully mine!
I knew it would all end in tears and was against it from the start but the house was empty, the weather was bad and they paid in advance - so I agreed!0 -
Rock and a hard-place really. The same relatives that are expecting you to be flexible would know they'd get short thrift from another (unrelated) landlord. I take it that they downplayed their own part in their current predicament which merely fell out of the sky at them and by making you out to be the mean one when their haven't stuck to their responsibilities.
Your choices are to put your resentment aside about being exploited and be the benevolent (or soft touch) relative or serve notice (and ignore all the subsequent pleading and abuse) because you don't want their poor finances affecting your income (i.e. be business-like).0
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