Tenants evicted but left possessions behind

silvercar

diystarter7 said:

silvercar said:

The likelihood is that a tenant with massive arrears won't have sufficient funds to take a landlord to court.

If they did have the funds then the court is likely to view the value of some clothes that the ex-tenant couldn't be bothered to collect as lower in value than the outstanding rent. Even if a court did put some value on the possessions, they would likely to be lower than the rent owed. Given that the tenant is hardly likely to have sufficient funds to force a payment out of them even with a CCJ, the chances of loosing out financially by clearing the room are minimal.

I had a tenant occupying a room in an HMO. Eventually evicted by the court, he left when the bailiffs appeared. Never returned to collect his stuff. Was planning to dump it after 2 letters, 4 texts, 4 emails a note on the front door and on the room and 2 weeks had elapsed. In the end it was longer as getting quotes to repair the damage caused took longer than expected. The tenant effectively had 5 weeks to collect stuff from the room, 7 weeks if you include the time it was bagged up outside the door waiting for disposal. If it ever went to court, I'm sure the court would be less than impressed with the state the room was left, the deliberate damage caused to the room, the arrears that built up by not paying rent after the initial deposit and first months rent etc.

The fact is that the ex-tenant knows where their possessions are, they know how to get in touch with the landlord, yet they choose not to. If these are their worldly goods and they have no regard for them, why should anyone else go above and beyond?

I thought the waiting time was 4 weeks?
Many of the T's that do this type of stuff know their rights to the letter and how to play the system from what I have seen.

IMHO, the trick is not to have threats against the LL to be taken to court.  thankfully we have not had to endure a bad T and just employe an EA and legal/etc insurance cover to take care of stuff if things go wrong.

Thanks

So do we, generally, this one managed to slip through the net. NHS worker in a new job, employment confirmed. Rent insurance wriggled out of it on the grounds of no work email address - porters don’t generally get NHS email addresses, so insurance wouldn’t pay the legal costs of evicting. Plus he played the system and took advantage of the covid rules. Left his job after a few months, only paid the deposit and first months rent. Nightmare.

3card

I evicted a tenant in August.
She took most of her possessions and i emailed her a week before the baillifs arrived to say any belonging that were still in the property after the bailiffs had left would be deemed as dumped by her and i would taken to the dump a day after i put them on the front garden

She actually left a large flat screen TV and the bailiffs told me that it should be in the TA what period i should give her to collect but he said its usually a week or 2 but if its not stated them i must keep them for 3 months.
The end of that day the TV was on the front garden and the following day it was taken to the local tip.

If i was advising i would tell you to do the exact same thing. Parasites.....sorry evicted tenants......need sorting, the law is an !!!!!!

propertyrental

3card said:

I evicted a tenant in August.
She took most of her possessions and i emailed her a week before the baillifs arrived to say any belonging that were still in the property after the bailiffs had left would be deemed as dumped by her and i would taken to the dump a day after i put them on the front garden

She actually left a large flat screen TV and the bailiffs told me that it should be in the TA what period i should give her to collect but he said its usually a week or 2 but if its not stated them i must keep them for 3 months.
The end of that day the TV was on the front garden and the following day it was taken to the local tip.

If i was advising i would tell you to do the exact same thing. Parasites.....sorry evicted tenants......need sorting, the law is an !!!!!!

It's a high risk strategy. If the TV was working it had value, so why the tip. Not very environentally friendly either.

 Value either to the tenant (who could have claimed) or to you - you could have kept it/sold it to offset the T's debt to you.

dekaspace1

propertyrental said:

3card said:

I evicted a tenant in August.
She took most of her possessions and i emailed her a week before the baillifs arrived to say any belonging that were still in the property after the bailiffs had left would be deemed as dumped by her and i would taken to the dump a day after i put them on the front garden

She actually left a large flat screen TV and the bailiffs told me that it should be in the TA what period i should give her to collect but he said its usually a week or 2 but if its not stated them i must keep them for 3 months.
The end of that day the TV was on the front garden and the following day it was taken to the local tip.

If i was advising i would tell you to do the exact same thing. Parasites.....sorry evicted tenants......need sorting, the law is an !!!!!!

It's a high risk strategy. If the TV was working it had value, so why the tip. Not very environentally friendly either.

 Value either to the tenant (who could have claimed) or to you - you could have kept it/sold it to offset the T's debt to you.

I always remember over 10 years ago now LL having a old tatty tv on the inventory that broke and he refused to take away when it did, so I got rid of it and replaced with a not just newer and better brand but would of cost 5-10 more when new, when I moved out the LL asked where his tv was and I mentioned it was replaced as said previously and he claimed he would sue me for the tv despite by then it being so old similar tvs went for about £10 in charity shops.