Are my tenants over-reacting?!

poppy10_2

obsessed_saver wrote: »

Don't let to retired people. They are retired and have nothing to occupy their time with.

100% agree. Old people tend to be very finickity and have an unfortunate habit of dying and leaving the rent unpaid.

Bungarm2001

Now I've picked myself up off the floor where I fell from laughing, my serious advice to you is just get them out somehow, but legally.

NO-ONE would put up with this !!!!!! not even their own family (if they have one?) You have been far more patient than I ever would. They are a liability and sound like they should be in a care home. Good luck with it all...

ldavies_3

Cor blimey.............. How bad are your tenants!..... We have had the same tenants in our house now for nearly 4 years... only evr had 2 phone calls from them in that time.....

We rented to friends(i know, i know!!) but it has been a fantastic business arrangement and when they choose to leave, we will rent it to the local authority who possibly will pay double the market rent to house short term tenants.

I would say also, change your tenants asap lol:D

PasturesNew

ldavies wrote: »

when they choose to leave, we will rent it to the local authority who possibly will pay double the market rent to house short term tenants.

Are you sure about that? I looked at renting mine out once (just to compare value and rentability) and the council amount was capped so was worth about 60% of what the open market value would have been.

I guess every house/region is different though.

SquatNow

Wouldn't the £100 for new taps be billable to the tennants... I mean they did ask for them.

And if the deliberately drained the central heating system that would be billed back to them too.

The blocked drain should be charged back to who-evers drain it is.

This is like the person on here who asked who they should sue when they moved into their new house and there was no key for the garage door... there is just no helping some people.

haylibo

melancholly wrote: »

a blocked drain giving them HIV............. just genius. this may be even more unreasonable than the LL who wanted regular cushion fluffing!

I wonder if the two could be introduced; whiny tenants meet neurotic landlord, landlord meet equally fussy tenants. Who would come out on top I wonder.

trudiha

I really, really, really want Becks as my landlord; I've just sold a bunch of stuff on ebay and packing it up ready to send is such a faff.

melancholly

haylibo wrote: »

I wonder if the two could be introduced; whiny tenants meet neurotic landlord, landlord meet equally fussy tenants. Who would come out on top I wonder.

oh oh oh - fight fight fight! i think it would be the LL..... younger, stronger and more likely to fight dirty!

Snooze

If my tenants had said all that to me they'd be getting served whatever the notice period is to leave without a doubt. In fact I'd probably pay them to leave just for some peace. :rolleyes:

Rob

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

The answer must be to provide social housing to anybody that wants it, at the price to costs to provide. So non-profit making, but available.

The problem before was they were having to subsidise it. Housing Associations are fine, except not enough of them.

I have no idea how it all works, where the money comes from, but if they'd just kept up the pace of building new social housing without subsidies none of this would have happened.

Social housing too wouldn't have had the stigma as everybody would have been living in them. Nowadays it is more the losers that get priority. Good people have been pushed out because of the needs of those that take and expect.

I doubt the council or housing association would have responded so well to the tenants requests.