Arrears In Rent

diggingdude

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.

I wouldn't take advice from someone who thinks illegal evictions and void periods are sound business plans

diggingdude

babyblade41 wrote: »

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

Sadly as a Social Worker it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't meet the threshold for a social worker. In some areas you have to be dead to get help these days

deepam

I have read all about Landlord Action. Could I please have more recommendation for similar professional services? Any recommendations for Southampton area?

GDB2222

deepam wrote: »

I have read all about Landlord Action. Could I please have more recommendation for similar professional services? Any recommendations for Southampton area?

Simon Parrott at Sharmans in Bedford. You don't really need a local firm, in my view, as it's all done in writing. If there's a court hearing, they'll instruct a barrister.

silvercar

Check your landlord building insurance, some include coverage for legal action.

grumiofoundation

deepam wrote: »

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

To clarify which part do you agree with?

Not to defend letting agents but I don’t know what they have done wrong? The contract is between you and the tenant. Although it may be hard the tenant isn’t paying you have to follow the legal process (why paying to leave may be the cheapest option).

grumiofoundation

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.

What a legend!

The perfect combination of “suggesting” criminal offences and bigotry!

deepam

Thanks. I will check my building insurance and contact Simon Parrott at Sharmans in Bedford as well

deepam

I have contacted two law firms and landlord action. Has anyone used LandlordAction? Anyone recommends them?

Halabala9

deepam said:

I have contacted two law firms and landlord action. Has anyone used LandlordAction? Anyone recommends them?

Hi buddy, any news? Did you get rid of him?