Awaiting eviction vulnerable tenant.

BlackBird75

Cakeguts wrote: »

Of course you might need to ask your local council for planning permission and that council might be a Labour one.

I'm not sure it would make any difference which political party ran the council.

But ask yourself this:
If councils are all so short of money, why don't they just buy some cheap land that doesn't have planning permission on it. Then grant the planning permission themselves and then either build the houses themselves, or sell on to private developers??
Either way, it's an easy way for them to make money at the stroke of a pen.

The only explanation for not doing this, is a deliberate government policy to restrict house building and keep house prices high.

But you won't see the mainstream media mention this....

BlackBird75

antrobus wrote: »

What you said was "you could contact the landlord directly and tell him you're going to contact HMRC, and ask them to check he has been declaring his rental income (unless he calls off the eviction)"

That is attempted blackmail. Particularly as you don't know whether or not the landlord has declared the rental income or not.



Which is why you will find that the local squatter network won't be interested.



Or they might meekly comply and exit the premises. Or it might take a couple of hours for plod to turn up. What would be the point?



You're right it is all "desperate stuff" and would not in any way help the OP in the slightest bit. An orderly exit from the property is the best they can hope for.

P.S. Desperate stuff is not a synonym for advice.:)

Well, the OP has had various types of advice.
So it's up to him / her to decide what's best.

From the sounds of it, neither messing about with court procedures nor inviting in the local trustafarian layabout squatters will do anything apart from delay the eviction anyway.

Fortunately, it sounds like the OP has a place sorted anyway.
Otherwise he'd be looking at sharing a hostel with junkies etc.
That's the harsh reality.

BlackBird75

Tobby230 wrote: »

Gosh you really are a bunch of mad people.

No, the mad people are living in London.
I saw on the internet today, that someone pushed an old man onto the tube train tracks.

If you end up in a coastal town bedsit full of junkies, just be grateful you don't have to use the tube train.

Craig1981

my question here is why in June when original hearing was adjourned, you didn't start looking for a new place? already in 5 months rent arrears totalling 20k, did you really think not paying rent would have any affect if you attended the hearing in September or not?
disrepair would be no defence if you did not have the money for rent in another account and could pay in full

you would have received your local housing allowance for rent in UC, nowhere near the amount stated due to the benefit cap (unless you are on a disabled benefit), but at least something towards it. they would not refuse to pay you housing allowance if you have arrears.

there is no help here anymore, you will be evicted, and that is the harsh truth. whether you want to leave before this happens or when it happens, is up to you and will depend on what stress you can take

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Bro you should have moved ages ago, if you couldnt do it physically then ask a friend to ring around for you and help you get moved.

Tobby230

Well I could have moved ages ago, as many of you say, or stayed as long as possible until I’m kicked out. Which is what I preferred to do.

Tobby230

Even now, if an appeal process would delay it for two more months, id do it.

Anyone can see I’ve played delaying tactics to stay as long as I can, and I’d like to continue doing it.

AdrianC

Tobby230 wrote: »

Well I could have moved ages ago, as many of you say, or stayed as long as possible until I’m kicked out. Which is what I preferred to do.

So now it's a conscious decision to string the inevitable out as long as possible?

Yet you're complaining you weren't expecting this, and need more notice...?

Sorry, but a conscious decision to put somebody else £36,000+costs into your debt, when you know you will never pay, is not a laudable thing.

Tobby230

Setting aside the rights or wrongs because that’s irrelevant.

I submitted for the hearing a counterclaim regarding maintenance issues. If that had gone right then the claim would have been dismissed. I hadn’t been told about the outcome of the hearing until yesterday and the letter says I should have left on Sept 29.

That’s unreasonable. Because the hearing could have gone either way, one cannot say it was an inevitability that I would be chucked out. Now on the basis of the unreasonableness of asking a vulnerable person to leave in a rush I can make representations - whether an appeal to the Supreme Court or an application to have it suspended. I think it can prolong the process.

AdrianC

Put the "vulnerable" guff back in the box. Unwell is not the same as vulnerable. The time for prioritising has long gone.