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

seven-day-weekend

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

What happened to telling the truth? - ie the tenants committed themselves to not having a pet and are now lying and saying they don't have one:cool:

But they are not grounds for evicting them before the end of their contract. The OP has to abide by the law. If s/he wants them to move out, s/he has to serve notice to quit at the correct time, and then be prepared to go to court if the tenant does not leave,

lovinituk

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

No....if you do nothing the tenancy will go on as a 'rolling' month-by-month periodic tenancy. You need to evict them so that their tenancy expires on or after the original tenancy end date.

https://www.pims.co.uk/periodic-tenancies/

I would imagine a Section 21 notice would be null and void anyway given that the deposit doesn't appear to have been protected. There's also the possibility that there is no Gas Safety Certificate or Energy Performance Certificate if the agent has been a bit 'dodgy'. All that would have to be rectified before the OP can issue a valid S21.

higgledypiggledy_pop

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

You've been "sweet talked" by the sound of it.

You played those cards all wrong. You should have stated/kept stating you were there on business (ie that formal inspection visit). As for accepting dinner (and wine) off them - what were you thinking of?

They saw you coming a mile off and you fell for that sweet talk/smarming and them hiding all sorts.

You've got two choices now:
- either "firm up" and get more determined and confident and do things a sight more professionally from here on in

OR

- give up being a landlady.

You've had the equivalent of what someone I used to know did to a workman one time - she deliberately flirted outrageously with him and I wonder if the guy concerned has yet clicked she did it deliberately in order to pay him only National Minimum Wage for his time (if that - by the time you take into account the petrol in his vehicle to get to her place).

I have already decided that I will not be letting out again after this as it has been an unmitigated disaster so far.

I did intend to be professional but I'm afraid nerves got the better of me and when they started being extremely nice, I just felt that it was much more comfortable to go along with it, especially as I am now aware that certain requirements on my/my agent's part have not been carried out properly. I would like to be 'strict' and demand some proper explanations but it does appear that I have the weaker hand in every respect and do not want to irritate them in any way if the law is not on my side.

davholla

higgledypiggledy_pop wrote: »

I have already decided that I will not be letting out again after this as it has been an unmitigated disaster so far.

I did intend to be professional but I'm afraid nerves got the better of me and when they started being extremely nice, I just felt that it was much more comfortable to go along with it, especially as I am now aware that certain requirements on my/my agent's part have not been carried out properly. I would like to be 'strict' and demand some proper explanations but it does appear that I have the weaker hand in every respect and do not want to irritate them in any way if the law is not on my side.

I am sorry to hear that, I hope you have not lost any money.

higgledypiggledy_pop

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Seriously???!

The phrase "no such thing as a free lunch" is the phrase coming to mind here.:cool:

Think there was turkey for lunch and OP was it....

It would have seemed a complete waste to come down only for the inspection so I have at least made a small break out of it. I will be returning on Friday, but before I do, I will try to be less of a "turkey" and make the inspection that I had planned of the shared areas, unless this is yet another thing I have no right to do.

higgledypiggledy_pop

davholla wrote: »

I am sorry to hear that, I hope you have not lost any money.

Yes, unfortunately I have lost a lot of money to my fraudulent agent and will have to spend even more attempting to find him and then recover some of it through the courts, according to my solicitor. We have reported him to the police and were told it would be passed to the fraud department but have yet to hear anything from them.

higgledypiggledy_pop

Pyxis wrote: »

Ooh! Perhaps the air freshener was to disguise the smell of the rotting corpses in the secret room behind the wall-panelling?

I think the OP had a very lucky escape there. :eek:

You must be very pleased with your hilarious comment.

bouicca21

I suspect the reason OP didn't meet the wolf dog is that this is in fact the up market version of the Being Human house. The tenants are a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf. I hope she didn't get bitten ...

higgledypiggledy_pop

elsien wrote: »

Yep, dinner and wine is stretching it even further than the dire wolves and ancestral pad. Sorry OP, must try harder.

Half the time I am being mocked for not being interesting and bizarre enough for you, i.e. not having a sufficient number of vampires in my house, then you say that I have try harder to be less 'ridiculous', because apparently being offered dinner by a tenant from a similar background to myself, who may have a reason to be charming, is ridiculous. In reality, perhaps some of YOU are rather more naive than you may think.

moneyistooshorttomention

higgledypiggledy_pop wrote: »

I will try to be less of a "turkey" and make the inspection that I had planned of the shared areas, unless this is yet another thing I have no right to do.

I doubt anyone can think of a law that would prevent you inspecting a "shared area":cool:.

In your position - I'd slap on a confident face and just do so - complete with notebook and camera in hand #sighs

Re the "dinner and wine" from a total stranger - I can see how that could have happened BUT that is a scenario I can only recall way back in my 20s and I fell for it back then. It dawned on me quite quickly there was a reason for it - in that case it was the hope of attracting me into joining an ultra-left political party....but I don't think it was for the pleasure of my company...