Council leaders call for longer eviction notice periods to prevent homelessness

Reply to the comment left by Keith Stead at 01/03/2024 - 11:49
yes why are landlords being held responsible for government failings in the housing sector. too many people seeking housing, lack of adequate housing - but basically too many families seeking accommodation.

has just taken me 2 years to get a tenant out and despite massive rent arrears to the council and council tax arrears they have bent over backwards to accommodate them - no responsibility for their actions or debts. this of course was not the first time - just keep being housed and debts written off and they are just one family. no attempt to recover these debts by the council just re-housed via a housing association. given chance after chance

peter harvey

what the councils fail to understand or do not want to understand is that the lease is a legal document and that the tenant should move out on that date regardless of whether the council have a property to offer the tenants - but the tenant is told to remain in the property until the bailiffs arrive - this is where it is all wrong and should be stopped

ph

Reply to the comment left by PETER harvey at 13/03/2024 - 06:10
Same boat arrears, plus damages . Taken the mic. They don't care how much its cost the LL, just put a trace on them if u have a ccj and keep chasing all u can do.

Reply to the comment left by TJP at 12/03/2024 - 23:30What do you mean invented a deposit?

Reply to the comment left by Happy housing at 13/03/2024 - 09:53My tenant was short cash when we drafted the tenancy agreement. I allowed him to take the flat with no deposit. The tenancy agreement reflected this. - More fool me, obviously !! There was a line through the deposit section. Both of us signed there was no deposit. The judge stated that just because the agreement said there was no deposit did not mean this was so. i.e. I might have falsified the document. My tenant with no proof that he paid, of course told the judge he had paid a deposit. The judge deferred for 1 month to allow both of us to prove our contentions. 1 month became 5. 5 months became 2 years. The case was never re-heard because I was granted possession via a section 8. (different judge!!!) But as far as I'm concerned, the original judge was corrupt. He deliberated scuppered my section 21 for his own personal left wing reasons by inventing a deposit for my tenant. I will never go to court again. As I write my tenant is still there, 2 and a half years later. I'm 5 months waiting for the bailiff. Still no date.

Reply to the comment left by TJP at 13/03/2024 - 12:02
Why dont you use the sheriffs to evict, once you gave a posession order you can transfer the case to the high cour t and use the sheriffs (who are private bailiffs) Try calling then 0333 001 5100 and they will explain everything

Reply to the comment left by GlanACC at 13/03/2024 - 12:38
Had a call from my solicitor this morning. A formal complaint has been raised. They say they will get back within 10 days. If I get fobbed off again, I will phone the sheriffs, as you suggest. But I already paid £670 last October. And will I be out of one fire into another ? I have no faith in anybody in the legal system anymore.

Under a 2018 proposal, many governments including ours, should I say 'Westminster", agreed to 'coordinate' the illegal migration of SIX HUNDRED MILLION from essentially the southern to the northern hemisphere, that's what Gove means, whether he realises it or not, when he speaks of "levelling up", Mr Darling needs to wake up.

10 months to get a couple out, from sect 21 to eviction.....i sent them details of other suitable properties but they just played the system whilst letting their children scriblle over the walls in marker pen.......how long does he suggest?......oh i am the demon landlord it must be my fault

Reply to the comment left by TJP at 13/03/2024 - 12:02
it really isnt worth the stress