Can I terminate my tenant's tenancy early for having an unauthorised pet?

higgledypiggledy_pop

aneary wrote: »

She lives in scotland the property isn't in scotland.

If you have a spare hour the 21 pages are worth reading.

A wolf, a harrassment case, a tax avoidance scheme, missing agents, drugs farms and an 1700s mattress.

An apparent wolf DOG,
NO harrassment case,
NO tax avoidance scheme,
Missing agent - yes, possibly
NO drugs farms!
Yes, a mattress. Goodness me, a mattress!

Hardly the Forsyte Saga!

walwyn1978

I genuinely don't see how them supposedly being on holiday but not on holiday when someone called is such an issue. They may have been away then come home early because someone was ill?

Have you decided that basically everything they say/do/are seen to do by your friends and neighbours is suspicious?

And if you don't see any dogs/evidence of wrongdoing on Thursday, what happens then, will you just let them get on with it for the remaining months?

Riggyman

higgledypiggledy_pop wrote: »

An apparent wolf DOG,
NO harrassment case,
NO tax avoidance scheme,
Missing agent - yes, possibly
NO drugs farms!
Yes, a mattress. Goodness me, a mattress!

Hardly the Forsyte Saga!

And no vampires. This thread is rubbish. 4/10 v.poor

higgledypiggledy_pop

walwyn1978 wrote: »

I genuinely don't see how them supposedly being on holiday but not on holiday when someone called is such an issue. They may have been away then come home early because someone was ill?

Have you decided that basically everything they say/do/are seen to do by your friends and neighbours is suspicious?

And if you don't see any dogs/evidence of wrongdoing on Thursday, what happens then, will you just let them get on with it for the remaining months?

I would not care about whether they were on holiday or not if it had not basically been confirmed by my sister that damages may be occurring. When she rang the bell, she heard a lot of movements inside (not barking, but animal movements). When the female tenant finally answered the door, she had tightly closed the door on the other side of the vestibule. Although there were no vocal sounds, there was thumping against the inner door, several thumps as they spoke. My sister asked to use the phone thinking she could get a look into the house this way, but the female simply produced her mobile phone from her pocket. At this point there was a SCRATCHING noise on the other side of the door. As you can imagine, scratching noises are the last thing that I want to hear, this is exactly what I feared could happen when I first found out about the animal and it seems I may be justified!

Additionally after some kind of charade with the mobile phone my sister asked if she could use the toilet, but the girl was obviously unwilling and said that it was currently out of order, no problem with the toilets have been reported so I think she was obviously trying to keep her out of the house because of the animal and/or something else. My sister made a joking comment about it sounding like an elephant inside but the tenant just laughed.

ENough to give a most urgent need to inspect the doors, wooden surfaces for scratching (and the toilet!). It sounds rather unlikely that there will be no damage but of course if everything looks normal I have no choice but to wait!

aneary

I'm guessing as you don't work you are from the upper classes!

If this is the way the upper classes behave I'm so glad I wasn't born into an upper class family.

Guest101

higgledypiggledy_pop wrote: »

Excuse me, but the 'flat' is only part of the ancestral home which which great sadness had to be divided into separate dwellings and some of them sold to pay the death tax, on some complicated leasehold. Mine is a substantial three-bedroom dwelling taking up a good portion of the ground floor. I also still own some of the grounds and outbuildings. My sister foolishly decided to sell her portion to live in a modern house, but my late brother's was passed to his children. Therefore over half of the value of the estate remains in the family and I feel justified in regarding it still as our estate and having a huge sentimental attachment to it.

So much so that you rent it out to strangers.

Guest101

higgledypiggledy_pop wrote: »

I would not care about whether they were on holiday or not if it had not basically been confirmed by my sister that damages may be occurring. When she rang the bell, she heard a lot of movements inside (not barking, but animal movements). When the female tenant finally answered the door, she had tightly closed the door on the other side of the vestibule. Although there were no vocal sounds, there was thumping against the inner door, several thumps as they spoke. My sister asked to use the phone thinking she could get a look into the house this way, but the female simply produced her mobile phone from her pocket. At this point there was a SCRATCHING noise on the other side of the door. As you can imagine, scratching noises are the last thing that I want to hear, this is exactly what I feared could happen when I first found out about the animal and it seems I may be justified! - No it's not. They have plenty of time to put it right.

Additionally after some kind of charade with the mobile phone my sister asked if she could use the toilet, but the girl was obviously unwilling and said that it was currently out of order, no problem with the toilets have been reported so I think she was obviously trying to keep her out of the house because of the animal and/or something else. - yes because she's a stranger she didn't want in her house? I'd of been less polite and told her to go.... My sister made a joking comment about it sounding like an elephant inside but the tenant just laughed.

ENough to give a most urgent need to inspect the doors, wooden surfaces for scratching (and the toilet!). It sounds rather unlikely that there will be no damage but of course if everything looks normal I have no choice but to wait!

Even if it's destroyed, you cant do anything, I thought we'd been over this....

Red-Squirrel_2

Your sister sounds like a psycho.

Heather2603

:eek::eek:you're sister turned up at her door unannounced made some daft excuse trying to get in and you think the tennant is the stragne one? :rotfl::rotfl:

The term is quiet enjoyment leave the tenants be and let them have that bloody nora.

macman

OP, if you have never filed a tax return, then (unless your accountant has Power of Attorney) they haven't been filed. Even if your accountant prepared them, you would still be required to sign them. Did you sign a POA (and please don't reply 'I can't remember')?
Under these circumstances, I think that a few canine-inflicted scratches on your furniture should be the least of your worries once HMRC get on the case.
And, if you think that, just because someone works for a bank, they'd find it quite normal to shell out something in the region of £30K upfront for a year's rental and deposit, without actually being requested to do so, then you are deluded.