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Council Tax for 2 single tenants plus utilities/tv licence
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If the whole household is jointly liable then where does my partner stand when the other party refuses to make any payments?
If it was a situation where there were multiple liable parties (which I doubt is the case) then each liable party is equally responsible for full payment and the council could pursue any of the parties they wished for up to the full balance.
Your partner would have to then try a county court action to recover the monies.I no longer work in Council Tax Recovery but instead work as a specialist Council Tax paralegal assisting landlords and Council Tax payers with council tax disputes and valuation tribunals. My views are my own reading of the law and you should always check with the local authority in question.0 -
Red-Squirrel wrote: »Your friend already had a tenancy for the whole property in her sole name and the landlord granted one to somebody else too?
Is that right? If so he had absolutely no right to do that!
Is your friend going to vacate too?
Yes that’s what he did, two separate tenancies for one property when it’s not a HMO.
My partner will be moving in with me in the next month or so, her notice is going in soon.
The issue is she’s now heavily out of pocket due to the other person refusing to pay anything for the last 2 months plus not 💰 not her share of the oil.0 -
lincroft1710 wrote: »And by trying to be clever has landed himself with a CT bill! As a landlord he has legal obligations, so he cannot just give "two hoots about rules and regulations". I am not sure that creating a second tenancy conforms with landlord and tenant legislation
He’s a family friend of my partner so she won’t be pursuing him over this. Had they not been friends then yes, I would of on her behalf gone after him
. He has been good to her, just royally screwed up with the tenancies and now left my partner out of pocket. The other tenant and without being too judgemental is completely clueless when it comes to life, money, obligations, responsibilities etc. She’s in her early 20s and doesn’t grasp that you can’t walk away from a property/contract scot-free as and when you feel like it. She’s not very bright and also doesn’t care. 0 -
sevenhills wrote: »As a lodger or co-tenant?
As a lodger.
The landlord gave the other person a tenancy agreement for the property which as discussed above it appears he had no right to do so.0 -
Did you partner give notice to leave the property when she was going to move out and then change her mind and decide to stay?0
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As a lodger.
The landlord gave the other person a tenancy agreement for the property which as discussed above it appears he had no right to do so.
In which case your partner would be solely liable unless there was something which legally ended her tenancy - the landlord simply handing out a tenancy to another would not end the the original tenancy.I no longer work in Council Tax Recovery but instead work as a specialist Council Tax paralegal assisting landlords and Council Tax payers with council tax disputes and valuation tribunals. My views are my own reading of the law and you should always check with the local authority in question.0 -
Yes that’s what he did, two separate tenancies for one property when it’s not a HMO.
My partner will be moving in with me in the next month or so, her notice is going in soon.
The issue is she’s now heavily out of pocket due to the other person refusing to pay anything for the last 2 months plus not 💰 not her share of the oil.
She'll probably just have to take that on the chin unfortunately, consider it a relatively lucky escape from a dodgy situation and get out asap!0 -
In which case your partner would be solely liable unless there was something which legally ended her tenancy - the landlord simply handing out a tenancy to another would not end the the original tenancy.
Giving notice to leave and move out would end the tenancy and if the other person living in the property wanted to stay then you can see that the landlord might have given them the tenancy of the whole property. The fact that the OP's partner then decided not to move out would have made them a lodger not a tenant?0 -
Did you partner give notice to leave the property when she was going to move out and then change her mind and decide to stay?
She discussed leaving with the landlord but didn't give any official notice as she hadn't committed to leaving. She decided to stay and that was the end of it. A tenancy was then also given to the other girl.0
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