Vile tenants ganging up on me, please HELP!

It is probably fair to say that the people who cop for the worlds most aggressive hate campaigns are David Cameron and Barrack Obama. They live with the constant real threat of some idiot wanting to assassinate them!

Nevertheless, they were elected by a majority to govern their countries which tells me that you can't please all the people all the time and if nobody is talking about you at all then you must be a nobody. Even God himself has more than his fair share of critics.

Moral of the story is this, ignore them to a point but if their threats go beyond a certain level to what Cameron and Obama would do. Hire professionals to sort them out. I'm not talking about special ops teams, that would be a step to far for a tenant, but a decent lawyer should sort it. From what Denise has said though, I suspect her enemies are relishing in the attention and more of it will just fuel their heated passion for hatred. Again, do what Cameron and Obama would do, ignore it and stop fanning the flames. Least said, soonest mended.

If you need to defend in Court, that's when you go on the attack as a counter-puncher, not before.
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Thanks everyone. I’m feeling a bit better today and am confidently expecting to bounce back to my old (OLD) jolly self anytime soon now.

All ex tenants are now un-friended, and/or blocked or have blocked me (I actually think Tenant C has just removed herself from the whole thing and blocked everyone because she didn't want to get involved).
I have not communicated with anyone or made any comments or replied in any way to any posts or personal attacks on Facebook - although it is quite hard to stay quiet when what is being written about me is SO vile, unfair and untrue - however that is the position I will maintain i.e. I will contribute nothing to their FB 'discussions' and know that we are in the right.

My partner, who seems to have so far escaped their vitriol, has communicated with Tenant A in an amicable way to explain why we believe she owes what she owes - and so far although stating on FB that she has started the process to challenge our claim, the deposit status is still recorded on the DPS website as ‘awaiting tenant response’

FB e-mailed me this morning to say that the last remaining post and comments/responses that I can see (and of course there may be others I don’t know about) has been reviewed by them and ‘since it violated their Community Standards, they have removed it. They have let Tenant A know that her post has been removed, but not who reported it.

I only wish I knew Mick how to block her on Messenger – I’ll have to ask my daughter and then get that done too.

We are prepared to do as Mark A advises and get professional help should the need arise and are already I believe doing as he further advises and not fanning any flames (apart from having her post removed by FB which I suppose may reignite her fury and start her off again – but we felt it had to be done.)

With regard to finding Tenant D – we are sleeping on that one, as we are thinking now that now, as we retire could in fact be the right time for us to start to downsize our portfolio, and so we have initiated the valuation process. That should help us decide do we want to sell this one now rather than in a year or so – because, despite it being so recently described as a s**thole, it is in fact a nice little property in a good location. It’s in the best condition it’s been in since we bought it in 2007, and would in our opinion be a perfect home for a first time buyer.

We came to that decision of course before even reading Mick’s assertion that many people say that Landlording really is a young man’s game! 

Generally sound advice from all the contributors on this one IMHO.

If you really don't want the hassle employ an agent - we accept this sort of thing as part and parcel of the job.

Oh Denise,
Facebook comments like these can strike right into the heart of you. I have 2 businesses that are very customer focused and Facebook can work very well for us bringing new customers and spreading the word about offers and services but unfortunately Facebook gives a voice to the cruel, the weird and just plain spiteful.
Make a promise to yourself to..
1. Decide if FB is for your social life or your business (i.e property)
2. Take 1 week away from FB if its only for your social like, a little distance from the whole thing will let you see its all a bit Eastenders!
3. Remember, people hardly ever blame themselves for their own short comings.
There are lots of tenants waiting for a great landlord like you that can prove they do repairs to their property's and protect the tenants deposits.
Block them from your FB page, and block their texts too. Hold you head high, you are a property professional, and move onto the next loony tenant knowing you have weathered the worst kind
Caroline 🙂 🙂

I have this on a regular basis. My name is mud across social media and whilst you could pursue a libel claim, you probably don't know the person giving out the abuse's address and they're also likely to have nothing in the event you successfully sue them.

Locally we have a Scumbag Landlords Facebook group and even when one of our tenants defends us (all off their own back and not coerced by me), the admins delete the 'positive' comments.

We have contemplated setting up a Scumbag Tenants group and posting embarrassing photos of how tenants leave houses. They'd be absolutely up in arms if we did the same back and no doubt someone (Police, council, Trading Standards, CAB, Social Services) would come to their defence and order it be taken down.

Oh Luke - if only I could share the picture on there (or here) of the maggot infested dead rat Tenant B left squashed under the filthy, grimy clogged up and busted washing machine on the filthiest, food littered floor I have EVER seen in my life, in the scummy mess that had been our lovely fitted kitchen (and, of course was again, before tenant A moved in).

And tenant B wanted me to sell that machine to Tenant A for £25!

Tenant B is now of course Tenant A's new BF!

I'd be more than happy to start a group...bit tit-for-tat, but should a Scumbag Tenants group gather interest from outside, it might also help to highlight their libellous group. My would only contain truth and fact.

All a bit daft though and I have no problems re-letting so just let it wash over. It is annoying when they tell a blatant lie.

Once, I had a tenant who reported her boiler not working. After some initial establishment of the issue it was determined that her gas was turned off (I'd assumed the main valve was in a box on the outside of the property and possibly some prankster had done it). Turns out the lever was INSIDE and could only have been her/her dog/her kid/her guests, but we took the flack for 'leaving her with a broken boiler'.

She was a scruffy cow as well.

just joshing Luke I'd personally never want to sink to that level 🙂

I'm just pontificating too. I have too much on to run a group. It would be nice to see their faces when photos of their crap that's left behind is made public.

never mind the content of this article which I would never dream of commenting on - just have a quick look at the state of the 'council house' where she lives

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3087519/So-m-effing-dole-Mother-ten-children-five-fathers-wants-50-grandchildren-benefits-rolling-in.html?ito=social-facebook