Tenant always pays on time. Should I issue a warning?

Tenant always pays on time. Should I issue a warning?

9:12 AM, 4th November 2024, About 2 months ago 22

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Hello, I have a tenant who always pays on time and respects the property. One of his neighbours has been known to be a little standoffish on occasion, but my tenant has now twice responded to the neighbour by shouting back when she argues with him. Last time he told her that if she doesn’t like where he stores his bike, she ought to call up the council.

To be fair, he left his bike in the correct place and the neighbour wouldn’t call the council because the neighbour literally has her scooter in a similar area (they are both technically breaking the rules but there’s really nowhere else safe for them to leave them. None of the neighbours care. It’s out of the way anyway.

She just wanted the best spot for herself, but to do so would mean his bigger bike would overhang walkway of everyone else and he says that’s bad, so he has to use the bigger space so neither of their vehicles are in anyone’s way). Long story short, he was in the right last time. Anyway, the neighbour downstairs has again had a verbal disagreement with him and she’s got my number, so she called me again.

My wife says we should take sides with the neighbour and issue our tenant a warning ⚠️ tell him he needs to not shout back when confronted. But I personally think “he’s always paid us on time and he looks after the property really well. He’s a good tenant to us. I’m not taking sides against my own tenant. If the neighbour doesn’t like him shouting, she shouldn’t start arguments with him”

What would you do? Should we issue him a warning and tell him we think he’s in the wrong? Or should we let these adults live their own life and be responsible for themselves?

Thank you,

Marcus


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Stuart Rothwell

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9:46 AM, 9th November 2024, About a month ago

Reply to the comment left by DPT at 04/11/2024 - 10:44
Agreed

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16:13 PM, 9th November 2024, About a month ago

Explain to your wife that you have a prompt paying tenant who respects your property and was reacting to being attacked by the neighbour.
You will quite happily issue him a warning, but she has to agree that if he leaves she has to manage finding a new tenant, and if that tenant does not pay or causes issues she will have to manage that situation, she should also volunteer to take on any debt arising whilst she organises claiming the arrears and getting them paid.
I think my response to her would have been very short

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