Tips on vetting new tenants

Smodlet

corell wrote: »

If only the landlord of my neighbouring house had some of these ideas and used social media or google to check out their new tenants, I would not now be living next door to a couple going through continuous domestic violence and drug taking. The landlord would also know one has an ASBO and both are ex-cons recently released and were hell on earth to their previous neighbours. Yet I checked them out and I found all this out from what is available online. It's a good source to use in my opinion. I've happily been in my property for almost 5 years, I'm a tenant, I have 3 monthly inspections and yet now I cannot live peacefully in my home due to another landlords choices.
So it's not just your homes that may be damaged but also neighbour's lives so you need to get it right who you are letting your properties to for everyones sakes.

Corell, I feel your pain, I really do. Over two years now and the unspeakable chav the other side of the party wall was supposed to be evicted and held up for the latest in a long line of breaches of the council-imposed injunction almost a fortnight ago but no judge was available. Probably on holiday... Meanwhile, our hell continues but what do we matter? We are not rich enough to matter, it seems. The chav's LL was available on the original court date but will be too busy going abroad on holiday on the next scheduled date; he does this literally every other month.

I realise it is the decay in society that is the root problem; once upon a time most people had respect and consideration for their neighbours but this is the Age of the Entitled Chav. It does not alter the fact that all LLs should be held far more responsible for their choice of tenant but, unless they live in close proximity to the offending chav, why should they care? They are not being deprived of sleep are they?

It is high time all LLs had to be accredited, not just those in the most expensive areas. It should also be automatic that, once they have let to a tenant who has caused property prices to fall and crime stats to increase, that they are banned from being a LL, imho.

tom9980

Smodlet wrote: »

Corell, I feel your pain, I really do. Over two years now and the unspeakable chav the other side of the party wall was supposed to be evicted and held up for the latest in a long line of breaches of the council-imposed injunction almost a fortnight ago but no judge was available. Probably on holiday... Meanwhile, our hell continues but what do we matter? We are not rich enough to matter, it seems. The chav's LL was available on the original court date but will be too busy going abroad on holiday on the next scheduled date; he does this literally every other month.

I realise it is the decay in society that is the root problem; once upon a time most people had respect and consideration for their neighbours but this is the Age of the Entitled Chav. It does not alter the fact that all LLs should be held far more responsible for their choice of tenant but, unless they live in close proximity to the offending chav, why should they care? They are not being deprived of sleep are they?

It is high time all LLs had to be accredited, not just those in the most expensive areas. It should also be automatic that, once they have let to a tenant who has caused property prices to fall and crime stats to increase, that they are banned from being a LL, imho.

On one hand posters are shouting down Landlords for daring to look on open social media accounts and web searches to fact check someone they have met most likely once for a few minutes during a viewing.

Then along you come and tell us Landlords should be held responsible for the actions of a 3rd party and be banned from letting completely if someone they let to causes problems beyond the Landlords control. I will let you in on a little secret telling a chav (your words) to not do something doesn't work smodlet, that and eviction is the Landlords only tool for making someone behave.

You also complain about the court system, the same system Landlords must use to evict a bad tenant (average 42 weeks wait to evict) and further go on to blame the Landlord for being unavailable to attend a rescheduled court date because they are going on holiday previously booked (you seem a bit jealous frankly).

I recently used said court system to get a CCJ against a tenant and it was time consuming and costly and to date have not got a single penny back and don't really expect to see anything at all. Yet you all wonder why Landlords are becoming so risk averse and look for any advantage they can to find the good tenants.

At the moment good Landlords and Tenants suffer because of the systems failings, while bad Landlords and Tenants often go unpunished.

Smodlet

I would not argue with any of that. 42 weeks is too long. It has taken well over 100 weeks because the LL, with whom we are in contact, self-confessedly refuses to pay for a bailiff. He has offered the chav money to leave, so far to no avail.

I think that should tell you all you need to know about him. He can afford to go on holidays abroad (of which, FYI, I am not jealous. I have never been abroad in my life from choice) yet he cannot afford to pay a bailiff to evict the chav. Give me strength.

mchale

david1951 wrote: »

..............why?!

Try ringing a tenant who owes you money on your usual number, they dont answer, try ringing same tenant on witheld number they dont answer, then ring tenant on a different number thats not withheld & suddenly they answer.


thats my point.:)

Soundgirlrocks

Noodles7791 wrote: »

Without being harsh either, who are you to tell me what I can or can't do?

I'm not telling you what you can and can't do, I'm saying I
don't think you should be a landlord.

DaftyDuck

mchale wrote: »

Try ringing a tenant who owes you money on your usual number, they dont answer, try ringing same tenant on witheld number they dont answer, then ring tenant on a different number thats not withheld & suddenly they answer.


thats my point.:)

... and then they promptly hang up!