Chasing previous tenant for rent arrears

mrlegend123

Business risk no rent.
BTL is a business with risk of no rent being paid. 

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The_Real_Cheddar_Bob said:

moneysavinghero said:

Why no point in getting a guarantor? If you had a guarantor you would now be getting the guarantor to pay for the missing rent rather than having to track down the invisible man.

Ah yes, I can add you to the list of exploiters.
OP no sympathy. Don't rent houses, work for your money,

I do often wonder where the tenants that cannot afford their own properties would be living without private landlords?
Its obvious that there is no where near enough social housing for everyone that needs it 

dimbo61

Follow the steps already given you.
Letter before Action and also sent to parents property the renter's address before they rented the property from your parents.
Unlike many people during the pandemic most NHS staff have been working and have job security.
The threat of a CCJ against a person who may be a registered health care professional who have to be a member of the hcpc or Royal college of nursing would cause issues at work.
Follow it up or they will do this to the next landlord.

davidmcn

dimbo61 said:

The threat of a CCJ against a person who may be a registered health care professional who have to be a member of the hcpc or Royal college of nursing would cause issues at work.

Would it? Can you explain why?

niceguyed

dimbo61 said:

Follow the steps already given you.
Letter before Action and also sent to parents property the renter's address before they rented the property from your parents.
Unlike many people during the pandemic most NHS staff have been working and have job security.
The threat of a CCJ against a person who may be a registered health care professional who have to be a member of the hcpc or Royal college of nursing would cause issues at work.
Follow it up or they will do this to the next landlord.

It absolutely would not. Character requirements generally include criminal not civil proceedings. Civil would only be considered were it to pertain to impinge  fitness to practice. A CCJ falls clearly outside that remit. 

Angela_D_3

dimbo61 said:

Follow the steps already given you.
Letter before Action and also sent to parents property the renter's address before they rented the property from your parents.
Unlike many people during the pandemic most NHS staff have been working and have job security.
The threat of a CCJ against a person who may be a registered health care professional who have to be a member of the hcpc or Royal college of nursing would cause issues at work.
Follow it up or they will do this to the next landlord.

You’re having a laugh theres a nurse from Chester who’s colleagues knew she was murdering babies and they’ve had to reinstate her twice on full pay.  She’s currently in prison on full nhs pay accuring holiday and pension until shes found guilty then she can be struck off.  The bar to “causing issues” is rather high.  

martindow

If the OP exhausts other routes to reclaim the debt I think I would be inclined to open a case which is likely to be undefended leading to a CCJ.  It may well not get the money owed back but If people are allowed to get off without repercussions they tend to continue.  It seems the socially responsible thing to do.

Angela_D_3

martindow said:

If the OP exhausts other routes to reclaim the debt I think I would be inclined to open a case which is likely to be undefended leading to a CCJ.  It may well not get the money owed back but If people are allowed to get off without repercussions they tend to continue.  It seems the socially responsible thing to do.

If uou get a ccj and you gave their bank details which you should have because theyve paid some rent right ?  You can go to the high court and freeze their bank account to recover the money 

here_for_advise

Thank you for all the advise,will see if we can find a tracker to get their new address.
I understand what you mean about sending it to the old rental address but this doesn't seem fair for the new tenant to be receiving letters like this even though they are for the previous tenant.
It just doesn't seem fair that they can just get away with not paying the rent and leaving the house in a state,I wouldn't like to think they would do it to somebody else.
Thanks again

getmore4less

here_for_advise said:

Thanks for the replys
Can you issue proceedings to the last address even though they no longer live there and it's now re rented.
They work for the nhs and have done for at least 10 years so it would be highly unlikely that they would just give  up their job.
No point getting parents as guarentor,they are a grown adult with children and earning more than enough to pass rent checks etc,just decided not to pay rent and be a nightmare tenant.

This is where google can be your friend.

if there is still mail coming you might have names of more of the family

You have name(assuming you did checks) where the person works, if you know the kids names they probably go to the same schools as when they lived in the house unless they upped and moved jobs and schools.

There are going to be some crumbs about on the internet.

It is surprising how little you need sometimes.