Tenant stopped paying rent and vanished

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The_Magnificent_Spoon wrote: »

Didn't sound like sarcasm to me. If I were fined four grand I would probably throw up everywhere, its a lot of money

It does go to show what a joke the law is though. I know people who have been assaulted completely unprovoked and been left with cuts, bruises, black eyes and in one case broken teeth, and they only received £80 and £150 compensation (which didn't even cover dentist and damage to clothing), yet knocking on somebodies door can lead to fines of thousands of pounds...!

Yeh, as i've said before in this thread it's pretty evident to anyone with a brain that the guy was leaving, and in a perfect world it is an honest mistake that the OP has made which really should go unpunished morally. The sad fact is that it's not unpunishable whether it was an honest mistake or not. It's bad in cases like these but the law is there to protect tenants from criminal/shoddy/unfit landlords. If the law didn't protect the tenant in this situation it would lead to a scenario where landlords would be able to throw people onto the streets at a moment's notice, which is wrong as well.

The thing that irked a few in here is that coming onto a forum and being nonchalant about what you've legally done wrong because it's morally okay (or a simple misunderstanding) is only going to potentially get you into further trouble with the law - if people want to take back property as and when it suits because they own the deeds to the house then they shouldn't be letting it out imo, especially without knowing the most basic of laws.