Co-own house I don’t want. How to get rid?

FlorayG

"The house is nominally unoccupied but people, known to the other owners, do use it"

What does this mean? People stay there now an again for an odd night or two? Or someone lives there? If someone is living there then they are responsible for council tax. It's nothing to do with if they are paying rent or not. Also, if it's their main address, they are tenants and the landlords ( all of you owners) are responsible for adhering to regulations pertaining thereto. Not paying any rent has nothing to do with this. I hope for your sake nobody is actually living there because that's a whole new can of worms

AliciaProsecco

My solicitor has written to them citing court action if they do not agree to put house up for sale. They say I am being unreasonable and they need more time. This has been going on for months. They have now agreed to put house up for sale in a couple of months but we shall see. They have refused my solicitor’s requests for me to see utility bills, insurance as I wanted unoccupied insurance, won’t give me a key, won’t pay rent as they are excluding me from using the property. All these requests generate letters costing hundreds of pounds. They have now agreed to pay the whole of the CT but as I said earlier the council has said they will still come after as they will not take my word for it! It seems an uphill struggle all the time. MattMattUK-you are right, they are being unreasonable and it is personal. My concern is that even if house is up for sale they will refuse all reasonable offers, thereby dragging process out. Perhaps hoping I will peg out in the meantime! I will be 80 in a few years time! All contact is through my solicitor as I do not wish to be subjected to verbal abuse. This all takes time and more money. If people can’t afford to pay legal fees, they can’t be made to pay and I think LegalAid is still available so the state pays. I know what you say is right but I would like to get on with my life-holidays etc rather than spending an extra £600 per month in solicitors fees and CT. 

No way would I threaten to move in from a reasonably sized detached house to a small semi. Apart from this, how could I as they will not furnish me with a key! How I wish I had not signed that form 30 years ago!

RAS

Leave your share to a charity in your will. 

Bookworm105

AliciaProsecco said:

I know what you say is right but I would like to get on with my life-holidays etc rather than spending an extra £600 per month in solicitors fees and CT. 

this thread is just going round in circles. You don't need 3 pages of advice as you already know your options but refuse to pick one! 

at age 80 decide how many more years of expenditure would it take to eclipse the one off costs of forcing a sale or carry on as you are in knowledge that you can't face sorting it any other way.

doodling

Hi,

AliciaProsecco said:

My solicitor has written to them citing court action if they do not agree to put house up for sale. They say I am being unreasonable and they need more time. This has been going on for months. They have now agreed to put house up for sale in a couple of months but we shall see. They have refused my solicitor’s requests for me to see utility bills, insurance as I wanted unoccupied insurance, won’t give me a key, won’t pay rent as they are excluding me from using the property. All these requests generate letters costing hundreds of pounds. They have now agreed to pay the whole of the CT but as I said earlier the council has said they will still come after as they will not take my word for it! It seems an uphill struggle all the time. MattMattUK-you are right, they are being unreasonable and it is personal. My concern is that even if house is up for sale they will refuse all reasonable offers, thereby dragging process out. Perhaps hoping I will peg out in the meantime! I will be 80 in a few years time! All contact is through my solicitor as I do not wish to be subjected to verbal abuse. This all takes time and more money. If people can’t afford to pay legal fees, they can’t be made to pay and I think LegalAid is still available so the state pays. I know what you say is right but I would like to get on with my life-holidays etc rather than spending an extra £600 per month in solicitors fees and CT. 

No way would I threaten to move in from a reasonably sized detached house to a small semi. Apart from this, how could I as they will not furnish me with a key! How I wish I had not signed that form 30 years ago!

Not that I am recommending that it is a good idea in your case, but as you are an owner and no-one else is living there, you are quite entitled to break in and change the locks if you don't have a key - it would be polite to give the other owners a key to the new lock if you did this.

If the other owners are thinking that their life will get easier if you pass away then they are mistaken.  If you don't leave the property to the other owners then whoever you do leave it to will be motivated to get it sold and get their money so it is not a matter of if the house will be sold but when.

I don't think that legal aid would be available to the other parties in cases like this and even if it was, it wouldn't stop them being liable for your legal costs (which of course they will have plenty of money to pay when the house is sold).