Comments on: I’m Evicting My Tenant

By: rick

rick — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:06:39 +0000

i am a landlord and the problem is tennent gets the money from housing benefit and spend it on themselves no more dss tennents waste of time unless it gets paid direct.Full of excuses ive heard them all.

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:41:25 +0000

Hi, I am both a landlord and tennant, not though choice I might add, one of my children was seriously bullied at school and we move catchments to get him in onthe school, we didn’t want to sell our house, so we rent it out, and rent one close to the children’s new school, any way my point is……. We rent our house out with a agent , our rent is very rarely paid on time, but I never moan, when the agent rings me, I will always give them extra time, in the current climate it is all give and take, we have had work men in our house and have come back and told us the house looks really tired and is not good, the tennants keep breaking things and we appear to keep paying out for it, but that is what you get as a landlord, we knew what we were getting into before we did it, I am just gratefull that at this time of year someone is living in it, what with frost and the plumbing ect, my tennants have always been pleasant when we have spoken to them and visa versa, they have a big German Shepard that they did not tell us about plus 1 other dog, but we just let it go, life is to short to keep moaning….. On the other hand the house we live in the curtains blow when it is windy, I can post a letter through the side of our front door without using the letter box, we had to try and repair kitchen shelfs before we put anything away without the 6 hour clean up before we moved in, the door hands keep coming off in our hands and the gas fire we have just noticed is not turning off properly , and cause the landlord only bought the property in november,all this is gonna have to wait till summer, buti. The mean time do we get a reduction in rent NO….. So you see I will never be a nasty landlady as I know what it is like to be on the other end, please bear in mind what your tennant is going through, cause there is always 2 sides and please tennants don’t all think that land lords are nasty and out to make money, cause personally we are not, we are going through all this so our children can have a Better school life :-)

By: dave

dave — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:22:04 +0000

hi,as a small time landlord im sick of seeing tennant make out where all loaded and should allow them to stay in my property so the can scam housing benifit,and spend the money on boose and fags now on my third problem tennant in four years,my mortgage on property is£350 and rent is £400 leaving £50 pounds per month ,after gas certs insurance etc and repairs im left with may be £100 per annum. if some one fails to pay rent the mortgage has to be payed from my familys food bill,leaving me worse off than if i were on benifits,why should i suffer because some low life wants to get drunk on there housing benifits.im sick of hearing we are on benifits its not our fault.just hand over the rent you ve been given its not extra income.

By: baz

baz — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:48:34 +0000

does your landlord pay income tax and cgt? Theres a good chanCe he does not. contact HRMC and give them his name and address and the address of the btl property and invite them to investigate their financial affairs?i come across numerous landlords in my work and forward their details to HRMC without exception. Extraordinary results!

By: Benji

Benji — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:19:11 +0000

Angrytiger,

Don’t get confused with a ‘Notice of eviction’ (N54) which is a bailiffs warrant. This states the date and time the court bailiff will carry out the eviction and hand over possession to the claimant.

It is not the same as the initial notice landlords have to give before they can apply for a court order.

By: The Landlord

The Landlord — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:22:33 +0000

Hi angrytiger, They're the same thing! They both refer to a Section 8- notice to quit!

By: angrytiger

angrytiger — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:46:08 +0000

I came across this link that says an eviction notice and notice to quit are the same thing. Is this true? I also read in a forum debate in landlordzon.co.uk that notice to quit is not the correct term to use as it is called eviction notice.

the link that says eviction notice and notice to quit are the same is the following site, however I couldn’t find the link for landlordzon.co.uk. Can some advice me? I will recieve the reply via email:

http://noticetoquit.info/eviction-notice/eviction-notice

By: angrylandlord

angrylandlord — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:30:00 +0000

Hi Cat

That was a great idea, i hate these low lives who make my whole life in misery. And what happened now? I really don’t want to waiting up to 6months or even a year to evicting them and nothing will be recovered since both of them are on benefit.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:26:23 +0000

Does anyone know Legal4Landlord, is it any good? Apparently they are suggesting me using their platinum service. Will the tenants automatically get a CCJ if they are evicted under Section 8 Notice? Also does anyone know if tenants put defence how long does it take and how much longer it will take?

By: froggy the doggy

froggy the doggy — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:09:27 +0000

erm, immediately apply for thr benefit to be paid to yourself, automatic rights if 8 weeks in arrears. To check you LHA allowance just go online, you need to know ages and sexs of the kids for the bedroom calculator.It costs between 150 and 180 to go into court for apossession order, no biggy, and you dont need a solicitor.
sack the agents, replace with a tought one.
good luck