My ex is renting my house out

mollymoo81

I got out of an abusive relationship over a year ago. He proceeded to kick me out of our jointly owned house and is now renting it out. He refuses to put me on tenancy agreement and has not given me any of the rent money. (I suspect he has spent it all). He spent £2,000 on the property, which he borrowed from his parents, and is expecting me to pay half back to them. Obviously as I signed no loan agreement with his parents I refuse to pay them anything, especially as he is keeping my money from me! I never agreed to the house being rented out. As I am not on the tenancy agreement (if there is one) how can I get his tenants out of my house?
I have already reported him to our mortgage company for unauthorised letting, just waiting to hear back from them. He lies and lies and lies to me about the house. All via text message too which have all been saved, printed and sent to the mortgage lender. How can I take back control from this abusive man?

moneyistooshorttomention

Well - if you're not getting your half share of the rental income anyway - then might as well "dob him in" to HMRC...

or, more to the point, start by threatening him that if you don't get your share - then that's what you will do.

I'm not actually share how much of the house you own - you refer to it as "mine" on the one hand and say its "jointly owned" on the other hand. What exactly is the position there? Who paid the deposit/fees/etc to buy the house? Was it in your name only originally - but then you met him and put it in his name too?

PasturesNew

Poor tenants, they'll end up with the faff and disruption at a cost of about £1000 to them (fees, removals twice, etc) just because they got caught in the cross-fire.

mollymoo81

I have spoken to the tenant and given them as much info as I can. My ex does not care who he hurts, he is selfish.

Floxxie

Go and speak to a solicitor about a forced sale and any other options that may be available to you.

I would also make HMRC aware of the situation.

And I would go 'no contact' with the ex!

McTaggus

Perhaps the best recourse would be to seek professional legal advice. The best option, it would seem, would be to either force the sale and sever ties forever, or to ask for him to buy you out - if the latter is not possible, then to enforce half the rental proceeds to be given to you.

If he is abusive, forget negotiating directly, and be done with him (and the house) as soon as you possibly can.

Good luck.