Bailiffs are our last resort

diystarter7

jillconey said:

Exactly how I felt as I read through the poasts.

OP, good luck and please keep calm

Personally, I'd chase and chase them via debt collectors as it will win the up

I still feel T's have it too much in their favour, esepcially the ones that know how to play the system.

Good luck OP and I hope the T's meet their match next time

i asked the barrister our odds at last court hearing and was told not good. I said don’t landlords have rights ?  She replied , no, not it this situation with Stepchange “. 

Chasing the debt ?  Even the judge said “let’s try to tangle the breathing breath for the house as unlikely to get any money from them”……that’s not to say we will give up but our main concern at present is to get house back to sell.
feel utterly powerless, like a bad game of chess, waiting for their next move. Many, many people have advised dragging them out. Much as I’d like too  (by the hair) the law is firmly on their side. We can’t go near the house and they have cameras everywhere, and I do mine everywhere. Blinds down with cameras through slats. It’s killing my brother in law knowing they as watching us gathered in street waiting for baliffs that simple dint turn up. I’ve never seen him so angry and in 40 years of knowing him I’ve never heard him use the language he did that day ! We know they are just laughing at us.  

Hi

Yes, get this over and done with and before you posted this, I already felt you wont get a penny from them but chase them if you have the money as it will wind them up

As I said, I hope they meet karma soon

Thnaks

jillconey

Spoken to solicitor. The “debt” relates to money owed only and judge’s decision still stands. Baliffs due on Monday

WhiskersTheWonderCat

They deserve the stress of debt collectors coming after them and their assets. They deserve as many restless nights as you have had. 

[Deleted User]

We only have one side of the story here, so maybe reign in the tenant hate posts a bit.

WhiskersTheWonderCat

[Deleted User] said:

We only have one side of the story here, so maybe reign in the tenant hate posts a bit.

There is no side of the story that makes 14 months of unpaid rent acceptable. 

newsgroupmonkey_

WhiskersTheWonderCat said:

[Deleted User] said:

We only have one side of the story here, so maybe reign in the tenant hate posts a bit.

There is no side of the story that makes 14 months of unpaid rent acceptable. 

So much this. The tenants are absolutely playing the OP like a fiddle.

If they wanted council accommodation, they could have simply waited for the court date, rocked up, waited for the judge to make a decision then gone cap in hand to the council.

Instead, they've come up with all manner of excuses not to be kicked out of a house. In addition, despite being given the money by the council, they've not handed it over to the Landlord. That in itself should be illegal. The law used to be that once you got X amount of days/weeks behind, housing benefit was paid direct to the landlord.

theartfullodger

We only have LL story so far  Fact. We have no reason to doubt OP's remarks. Some  posts by various might be helpful for T's legal advisers...

Best wishes to everyone.

diystarter7

jillconey said:

Exactly how I felt as I read through the poasts.

OP, good luck and please keep calm

Personally, I'd chase and chase them via debt collectors as it will win the up

I still feel T's have it too much in their favour, esepcially the ones that know how to play the system.

Good luck OP and I hope the T's meet their match next time

i asked the barrister our odds at last court hearing and was told not good. I said don’t landlords have rights ?  She replied , no, not it this situation with Stepchange “. 

Chasing the debt ?  Even the judge said “let’s try to tangle the breathing breath for the house as unlikely to get any money from them”……that’s not to say we will give up but our main concern at present is to get house back to sell.
feel utterly powerless, like a bad game of chess, waiting for their next move. Many, many people have advised dragging them out. Much as I’d like too  (by the hair) the law is firmly on their side. We can’t go near the house and they have cameras everywhere, and I do mine everywhere. Blinds down with cameras through slats. It’s killing my brother in law knowing they as watching us gathered in street waiting for baliffs that simple dint turn up. I’ve never seen him so angry and in 40 years of knowing him I’ve never heard him use the language he did that day ! We know they are just laughing at us.  

Hi OP

Have you considered inviting one of those media/tv people that does those bad T programmes?

No matter whar anyone says but the law is not fair to LL's and heavily in favour of T's including those that play the system and make decent LL's ill with stress and the possibility of losing everything at times and the T walks away scot-free.

This is one of the reasons that we never operate without a LA even where someone has been really good T's - it's tempting to let go of LA after a year if T's are good but you never know. I've said this before, always get legal cover and rental cover especially if you have mortgages etc or depending on the income for day-to-day living, part of/

Good luck

deannagone

I support wholeheartedly the OP.  But as an ex tenant who realises the law can and does fail both sides, who suffered a great deal of stress because of a LL, I will stop looking at this thread.  Its too upsetting to see such a one sided point of view only appearing on here.

diystarter7

deannagone said:

I support wholeheartedly the OP.  But as an ex tenant who realises the law can and does fail both sides, who suffered a great deal of stress because of a LL, I will stop looking at this thread.  Its too upsetting to see such a one sided point of view only appearing on here.

Hi

To be fair to those that have posted here, no one is saying all T's are bad and all LL's are good and that is a fact

I'm sure that if you posted here during your time of problems, many inc me would have supported you and given you
their unbiased opinionns etc

Thnaks