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Problem tenants, advice needed

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  • ViolaLass
    ViolaLass Posts: 5,764 Forumite
    evoke wrote: »
    Doesn't housing benefit pay some or all of your rent? I'm not well read on benefits as i've never claimed a penny in my life. But this is the right place to come for advice on how to leech every penny that the beleagured taxpayer pays out.

    Do you have any evidence that they've on benefits? Having a job means you can pay your rent too.
    evoke wrote: »
    Anyway, they fit the description of benefits scroungers very well indeed.

    Because they pay their rent?
    evoke wrote: »
    They are typical professional tenants who are being obstructive and hiding behind the law and regulations when the OP is trying to be reasonable with them...The OP wants to put things right and they're doing their level best to stop the OP from putting things right.

    The OP has wanted to break the contract and kick them out to put things right. The tenants are not obliged to move, the OP is obliged to make sure the house is in an acceptable state. The tenants have even offered to move out temporarily or take annual leave to be out of the way - how is that not cooperative?
  • kazwookie
    kazwookie Posts: 14,341 Forumite
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    POPPYOSCAR wrote: »
    Soon the OP will be saying that they want to bury their dead dog in the garden................................................

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Don't even suggest it, that thread had me in stitches!! :D
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  • Mischa8
    Mischa8 Posts: 659 Forumite
    kazwookie wrote: »
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Don't even suggest it, that thread had me in stitches!! :D

    where's this thread?! about dead dog in garden?? please let me know so I can laugh my socks off, currently off sick with a virus and temperature, daytime TV is killing me.
  • talulahbeige_2
    talulahbeige_2 Posts: 790 Forumite
    evoke wrote: »
    Doesn't housing benefit pay some or all of your rent? I'm not well read on benefits as i've never claimed a penny in my life. But this is the right place to come for advice on how to leech every penny that the beleagured taxpayer pays out.

    Excuse me! At what point did we start talking about me? And for the record, I pay my rent in full and on time every month you ignorant idiot
  • POPPYOSCAR
    POPPYOSCAR Posts: 14,902 Forumite
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    kazwookie wrote: »
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Don't even suggest it, that thread had me in stitches!! :D



    And that the OP has had to put the fish from the pond in the bath...............................
  • evoke
    evoke Posts: 1,286 Forumite
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    tomitma wrote: »
    They didn't know that this much work needed to be done, even the land lord didn't know until two weeks AFTER the tenancy began, how are two working people benefit scroungers, plus it has already been written that they paid a lot of money to move into this property, with credit checks, and removals, they don't have enough money to find another property.

    And neither did the OP (the landlord) know that there was this much work to be done. The OP is trying to be reasonable. The scummy tenants are digginh their dirty heels in.

    Why can't the tenants try to reach a compromise with the OP? If they're happy to rent the place out then surely a few weeks of disruption isn't going to be a big deal is it?

    What is the OP supposed to do in this instance? A lot of work is required and the tenants have effectively barricaded themselves into the property. They don't sound like reasonable people to me.
    Everyone is entitled to my opinion!
  • BitterAndTwisted
    BitterAndTwisted Posts: 22,492 Forumite
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    Evoke: you are giving every appearance of being a troll!

    Why can't you accept at face-value what the OP herself has admitted about what the tenants have offered. They sound pretty tolerant and reasonable to me.
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    evoke wrote: »
    And neither did the OP (the landlord) know that there was this much work to be done. The OP is trying to be reasonable. The scummy tenants are digginh their dirty heels in.

    It appears that the property has serious structural ongoing problems that the OP hasn't bothered to deal with some years, or is so concerned about voids they didn't care.
    Why can't the tenants try to reach a compromise with the OP? If they're happy to rent the place out then surely a few weeks of disruption isn't going to be a big deal is it?

    I believe they already have offered. Read all the posts before commenting on this.
    What is the OP supposed to do in this instance? A lot of work is required and the tenants have effectively barricaded themselves into the property. They don't sound like reasonable people to me.

    Unlike the OP of course, who seems happy to enter the property without consent of the tenants.

    For someone who claims not to be a landlord you don't half take a very pro-landlord stance.
  • BitterAndTwisted
    BitterAndTwisted Posts: 22,492 Forumite
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    Mischa8 wrote: »
    where's this thread?! about dead dog in garden?? please let me know so I can laugh my socks off, currently off sick with a virus and temperature, daytime TV is killing me.

    28 pages of the lollers. Enjoy

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2636903
  • FLAPJACK
    FLAPJACK Posts: 524 Forumite
    OP sounds like a cross between RACHMAN and RIGSBY! Maybe the mould IS caused by RISING DAMP!!
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