Arrears In Rent

GDB2222

He can't pay anything if he has no money and is waiting for his benefits.

What GM has not mentioned is that a typical wait for a court hearing is 6-8 weeks AFTER you apply. So, by then, you are 4 months into this process.

The court order will need to be served by the court bailiffs (not a private firm). When I last had to do this, my local bailiffs had a backlog of a couple of months.

Once you start on the eviction route, the tenant has no incentive to pay rent at all. He's better off saving up for his new place.

You might well be better off finding out how much the tenant can pay you, working with him, and perhaps accepting a small loss, rather than creating a massive one.

deepam

But what is to say that he will move out after a year (when my contract ends)? I will still have to go to court then?

I will try to offer him money to go as suggested by Comms69 and see what he says

GDB2222

Have you checked the local references rent?

deepam

Yes of course. You people are just advising and its highly appreciated.

Durban

I think that you should have any tenant properly credit referenced next time and purchase rent guarantee insurance. This also pays the costs of LEGAL eviction.

If I was in your shoes , I certainly wouldn't be trying to evict on my own as you're inexperienced. I would be employing someone like Landlord Action.

MonaLisaSmile

deepam wrote: »

He is 25+ and single. I feel he should have been responsible enough to know that he cant afford the rent and should not sign the contract. Anyways I don't want to get into - 'why did he do it'

Looking forward, I would not want him to live in my flat and would want my flat back. I dont think its fair on me as I have paid mortgage with my hard earned money all my life. And no - I will not allow him to get any loggers in.

My flat is in high rent area. £900 is very reasonable rent for the area and there are other flats going easily for a £1000

So all you care about is money.



The guy has been a great tenant to you for 4 years and him paying all that money each year upfront has greatly benefited you.


Good luck to you I guess.

babyblade41

I have successfully evicted on a section 8 and trust me I think you will need professional help doing this as your grasp of the whole situation is totally skewed.
To think you were helping him by taking a year in advance was cruel... he has now found himself being evicted with nothing to fall back on...

I'd like to think this guy has got a social worker and if he'd got help from the start he wouldn't find himself in the situation he now finds himself in with zero funds in the bank to boot

You could have got him to pay a couple of months in advance whilst he sources his benefits out as a condition , kept a close eye on him and keep in regular contact and maybe helping him with who he needs to contact for benefits.

If you wanted to help there were far better ways for both you and the tenant.

Issuing a S8 is relatively easy but every detail has to be correct, dates, spellings everything.. it will depend on the courts in your area as to how quick it will be heard.

After this I think you will have to wait for 2 weeks after the eviction date issued by the court , if indeed they do to apply for a bailiff.

This again depends on your own particular area as to how long the wait will be .. this process is not nice so if it gets to this let the bailiffs do their job........but if you want to become a LL in the future I would avoid "helping" .

..oh and read up on the basics first

Kentish_Dave

deepam wrote: »

Ok. How much do you think I should agree to pay him to leave? And what if he does not leave even after taking the money?

Why pay him? People like your tenant will always be looking at what they can take, there are far less expensive and quicker ways to encourage someone to move on, and once they’ve cheated you, you have absolutely no moral obligation to make their life easy.

The option I mentioned above is at the nicer end of how you can get the right outcome, and, as I said in that post, you are able to weigh up the costs and benefits of any route that you choose.

It’s tenants like yours that mean that I’ll leave my properties void when the current wonderful tenants move on. Life’s too short to lose any sleep over doing the “right thing” with people like this.

deepam

Kentish I some what agree but I will not have guts to do any such thing. I am already feeling so silly to give my flat like this. I really trusted Connells to do everything right and now they have just left me alone.

I will look at Landlord Action and see if they can help me with section 8. It’s very hard to come to terms with the fact that tenants just take you for a ride

Comms69

Kentish_Dave wrote: »

Why pay him? People like your tenant will always be looking at what they can take, there are far less expensive and quicker ways to encourage someone to move on, and once they’ve cheated you, you have absolutely no moral obligation to make their life easy.

The option I mentioned above is at the nicer end of how you can get the right outcome, and, as I said in that post, you are able to weigh up the costs and benefits of any route that you choose.

It’s tenants like yours that mean that I’ll leave my properties void when the current wonderful tenants move on. Life’s too short to lose any sleep over doing the “right thing” with people like this.

Stop telling the OP to commit criminal offences