Tenant Cultivating Cannabis

Wings

I have for the past 6 months been trying to gain entry to a tenanted flat, in order to carry out the annual landlord’s gas safety check. The tenants refusal to allow me access, leads me to believe that the tenant is cultivating cannabis, this together with the tenant not paying his last month’s rent, makes me believe that eviction of the tenant is an urgent requirement.

Since the tenant’s fixed term tenancy has elapsed, it appears to me that a 2 months notice under a section 21 notice is the quickest option, however is there a more quicker legal notice that a landlord can give where a tenant is either dealing or cultivating drugs.

tanith

Call the Police they'll evict him straight down the local 'nick'

trudiha

Wings wrote: »

. The tenants refusal to allow me access, leads me to believe that the tenant is cultivating cannabis,

That really is quite a leap, maybe it's not drugs, maybe it's a brothel or they have found a portal into another dimension or are digging for oil in the sitting room or have gone a bit fred west and are killing people to whom they have illegally sublet and have buried them in the basement. The possibilities are endless...

I think that you need to get yourself down to the local magistrate's court and tell them about your fears, they'll get you a social worker.

Wings

Lights of boiler room on 24/7, visitors calling in the early hours of the morning, visitors seen smoking drugs, matter reported to the police, and lastly why would a tenant refuse a landlord access to carry out a landlord gas safety check?

real1314

Wings wrote: »

I have for the past 6 months been trying to gain entry to a tenanted flat, in order to carry out the annual landlord’s gas safety check. The tenants refusal to allow me access, leads me to believe that the tenant is cultivating cannabis, this together with the tenant not paying his last month’s rent, makes me believe that eviction of the tenant is an urgent requirement.

Since the tenant’s fixed term tenancy has elapsed, it appears to me that a 2 months notice under a section 21 notice is the quickest option, however is there a more quicker legal notice that a landlord can give where a tenant is either dealing or cultivating drugs.

Is this a wind up? I think with that sort of logic chopping you should join the police.

I think the tenant has 20,000 photos of samantha fox pinned up in every room and that's why they won't let you in, because they don't want to share them with you.

trudiha

Wings wrote: »

Lights of boiler room on 24/7,

(Before I start, I'd like you to know that my parents were a couple of hippys, I personally don't and have never partaken of any illegal substances. When I'm dull it's naturally occurring, not chemically induced.)

To grow cannabis commercially you don't have the lights on 24/7. You would use strong lights to stimulate daylight and use a timer to set the 'daylight' period to get shorter and shorter every day. Eventually, if you get your timing right you would have two artificial 'days' in the course of 24 hours, this would make the plans grow more quickly.

visitors calling in the early hours of the morning

Some people keep irregular hours, doesn't make them growers of illegal substances.

visitors seen smoking drugs,

My brother smokes pot, I don't like the smell, I make him do it outside. However, if I were growing cannabis I'd be darn sure that the neighbours didn't get to see him getting stoned on the way into or out of my house. Wouldn't you do the same?

and lastly why would a tenant refuse a landlord access to carry out a landlord gas safety check?

Maybe they don't like you, maybe they don't like gas safety checks, maybe they don't understand just how important gas safety checks are who knows but you really are jumping to a very strange conclusion about their activities.

If they've not paid their rent there are legal avenues open to you, I think you'd best explore 'em.

MissMoneypenny

Wings wrote: »

why would a tenant refuse a landlord access to carry out a landlord gas safety check?

Maybe they are waiting for a corgi engineer to come round to do the safety check, instead of the LL.

Wings

Nearby neighbours have also voiced their own suspicions, with the local neighbourhood watch reminding me of my responsibilities as the landlord.
I also believe the boiler room is being used as the location for growing cannabis, and not the gas boiler for the source of heat, since electric is usually used, with the user rigging the electricto reduce the meter recordings.

Generali

If you think they're doing something illegal, call the police.

It does seem like a bit of a leap to me but WTFDIK?

clutton_2

if you have no proof then you cannot issue the relevant fast eviction notice which refers to breaking the law inside the property. Easiest thing - issue SEction 21 and go for accelerated possession - £150 plus £95 for the Bailiffs to hoik them out - probably take you about 2-3 months depending on the court/bailiffs work load. but, if you have not done this before, then join national landlords association and get their advice in filling out the forms - as judges throw out badly completed forms every day and you then have the delightful privilege of spending ANOTHER £150 to start all over again !!!!!

do keep precise records of how many times you wrote, texted, mailed, visited to try to get a CORGI done - you have to be sqeaky clean.

trudiha

Generali wrote: »

If you think they're doing something illegal, call the police.

I knew that there was some kind of organisation that dealt with stuff like that but I couldn't for the life of me remember their name. Thank you, thank you very much.