Rent arrears

martink_2

Hi, sadly my tenant of a few years passed away recently leaving circa £4K of rent arrears. She was originally from Poland and the funeral will take place there with all of the probate being handled there too. I’m wondering if anyone has experience of how to chase this up, I don’t even know who the executor is. Do I just write it off or is there a firm of solicitors that can help, maybe on a no win/no fee basis. Anyone got any thoughts?

moneysavinghero

Cant see the point of a no win no fee. Their fee is not going to be less than £4k, so you would end up with the same as doing  nothing £0.00.

Grumpy_chap

Pragmatically, write this off.
You have avoided the hassle of needing to recover the premises.

TBagpuss

Given the overseas element, I suspect it is not going to be cost effective to pursue. 
If you have a name and address for anyone involved you could write to them and ask that they pass the details on to whoever is dealing with the probate; you never know, t might turn out that she has a lot of savings and that they feel morally obligated to clear her debt, but to enforce it you'd either have to sue in the uk and then apply to enforce in Poland, or apply direct in Poland, and either way you'd need to know who the executor was