Help my tennant has wrecked my house

simpywimpy

If she's in arrears and on benefits, I wouldnt bother taking her to small claims court. I went all the way to the baliff action for mine which was a complete waste of my time and money.

Just get her out as quickly as possible and put it down to experience.

G_M

I'm afraid I have little sympathy. As a landlord you appear to have a remarkable level of ignorance both about tenancy law in general and your specific tenancy in particular. If you don't know what tenancy you granted 3 years ago, or on what terms, how do you expect us to advise? The agents may indeed be 'hopeless', but a) in that case why have you stuck with them and b) that does not excuse you from your responsibilities as a landlord, if nothing else responsibility to look after your own asset.

tomitma

Rosie321 wrote: »

I inherited my mother's house 4 years ago and have since had a SS tennant for 3 years.

Long story short is that she has wrecked the house and caused a siginificant amount of damage that is now going to cost me a lot to put right. On top of this she doesn't pay on time and has large arrears.

I've finally come to the decision that enough is enough and I need to get her out so that I can get the repairs done and put the house on the market.

The house is in South Wales and is 3-4 hours away by car making dealing with her very difficult. She is also preventing either myself or the agent from gaining access.

I think that she has a six month notice period (the agents have the contract and are also hopeless).

Does anybody have any advice for the best way to deal with the situation. I don't want to turf her out onto the street (obviously), but I really do need to reclaim my house and rectify all of the damage.

Any help much appreciated,

R

You are being too soft, get her out, by giving her notice to leave.

tbs624

tomitma wrote: »

You are being too soft, get her out, by giving her notice to leave.

OP can't really set about doing that until she knows the terms of her own contract. Knowing the "rental period" etc is pretty vital if the Notices are going to be valid....

dizziblonde

Forgive me if I'm being dim here - but I can't comprehend how on earth people would let out an asset that is worth tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds without being clear in their mind what they were agreeing to and how the heck they're going to get it back?!

tbs624

dizziblonde wrote: »

Forgive me if I'm being dim here - but I can't comprehend how on earth people would let out an asset that is worth tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds without being clear in their mind what they were agreeing to and how the heck they're going to get it back?!

The trouble is that for many inexperienced LLs they think that handing over the "management" of the property to an LA will mean that they , as LL, will have no worries and they fail to do adequate research on the very basics of property letting.

Without that, how can a LL possibly know whether or not the LA is doing a good job on his behalf? The answer is that they often don't, until things start to go wrong and it becomes clear that the LA has been slow off the mark to monitor the condition of a property, chase up the timely payment of rents and/or serve appropriate Notices on behalf of the LL.

BitterAndTwisted

dizziblonde wrote: »

Forgive me if I'm being dim here - but I can't comprehend how on earth people would let out an asset that is worth tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds without being clear in their mind what they were agreeing to and how the heck they're going to get it back?!

I'm sure that if there was a whacking-great mortgage on the property a great deal more care and attention would have been paid from the very start.

Easy come, easy go!