any advice on eviction please

[kai]

I have legally evicted a tenant and the baliff attended whilst locks were changed on Tues but tenant has left all possessions and says they are trying to get housed by council but I need to leave the country and secure my property but when I ring tenant to request they come for there belongings they have a million and one excuses as to why they cannot...what can I do as I need to fly out by Sunday...please any suggestions apart from throwing there stuff on the street and getting myself in a legal war...

[boosboss]

I've just asked a friend (Baliff) here's her advice

By law they can't just get rid of their stuff, they have to issue the tenant with reasonable notice - usually 7 days and usually in the window of the property or served on the tenant if they know where they are - best done by a solicitor. After that period they can then legally dispose/sell stuff. Until then, they're stuffed, I'm afraid. Only alternative is to put it in storage but it'll be at the landlord's cost until the tenant can pick it up.

[PeckhamRose]

Poor tenant.

[TillieTrotter]

poor landlord.

[kai]

ok thanks guys...so I did the right thing by leaving a note on the door saying that these premises have been repossesed by....as of...in conjunction with court case number....at..court and in attendance with a court baliff...please note you have 10 days to make arrangements to collect possessions after which they will be dispossed of....but isn't it a bummer that tenant has known this action was pending and drawing ever closer and even still has not made adequate arrangements and still causing problems...amazing how the council eagerly try to get us to house people but when it's time for them to go and we do it all legal and correct we still have further hurdles to cross at great expense...

[SeanMacGabhann]

Kai - I've no idea what kind of tenant this person was - may well have been a nightmare in which case, my sympathies

But so far it reads as if you alone have decided on a course of action, and without explaining further, it sounds like the tenant is the one who has been put out. Literally and figuratively

If the shoe was on the other foot and your home was taken from you you wouldn't go out of your way to be THAT helpful would you?

As I say tho, you may have been forced into this action by an unreasonable tenant so I don't want to judge either way

[MadWorld74]

Can I ask what the tenant did to become evicted?

[Brendan]

Just comply with the law and put their things in storage if needs be. A bit inconvenient but I think you are obliged to. If you are going to line your pockets by providing housing for people you have a responsibility towards those people and society. Even if they are nasty buggers and you have to quite justifiably kick them out. That is why the law is in place.

[Domitianus]

Can I just say that I am amazed at the flak (no matter how politely couched) that Kai has been getting here - poor tenant, how difficult it is for the tenant etc. All that may be true but I do know that eviction notices are not issued lightly and the tenant has usually given a landlord every reason to evict them if an eviction order is issued. So, whilst I think it wise for Kai to comply with the law, I don't think he has any obligation at all to incur any additional costs on behalf of a tenant who must have well over-stepped the mark to get evicted in the first place and who doesn't seem to have taken steps him/herself to sort the situation.

I imagine that Kai has already had to invest quite a bit of time, energy and possibly money into this process and to expect him to further act as a de facto banker and storage facility to this tenant is a bit much. After all, who will pay the storage costs if this stuff is put in storage? Kai? The tenant who doesn't seem to want to deal with it? I'd be interested to know.

[mockney piers]

I don't think it's been flak,just a couple of requests for elaboration on what happened.

Now if Kai had pulled up in his porsche to evict said tenent then the ack-ack may well have opened up.

[Brendan]

What kind of Porsche?

[Keef]

Having read Kai's posts, I think evict might be a bad choice of word. The plenty of notice, and going overseas bit suggests that possibly it wasn't an eviction due to any fallings out... I could of course be wrong. As for the original subject, I am actually with the landlord on this one, the person should get their bloody stuff out of a place where they no longer live. I say that as someone who rents by the way.

[mockney piers]

Which porsche?

How about this one?

Dangerous streets these days, much safer than a boxster.

[Asset]

Any storage costs of tenant's belongings would be a deductable expense from rental income I would think.

[Domitianus]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Which porsche?

> How about this one?

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> Dangerous streets these days, much safer than a

> boxster.

Am I right in thinking that that is a Panzer Ferdinand from WW2 (built on a Tiger chassis)? It is indeed interesting to note that many of our contemporary vehicle builders were heavily involved in arms production in WW2. I think of Porche, Skoda and MAN.

[lozzyloz]

Similarly Rolls Royce (Spitfire) and ironically now German owned and Vauxhall were tank builders also bought by the Germans and now US owned.

[LostThePlot]

lozzyloz Wrote:

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> Similarly Rolls Royce (Spitfire)

Not sure if this applies to anyone here, but there is soon to be published a Haynes Manual on the Spitfire.

Now no excuses for not restoring that one sitting in the back garden under tarpaulin.....

[Asset]

It is quite remarkable how threads on this forum go rambling off to totally unrelated subjects. Unpredictable and fun though.

[Brendan]

I?m busy reading a Tank Girl comic and she has just discovered a WW2 tank in her granddad?s shed.

She says it?s sht. I?ll take her word for it. So you can keep your Porsche Panzer.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Weren't VW something to do with V2 production factory?

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Keef - "the person should get their bloody stuff out of a place where they no longer live" - what if they have no where to live, and therefore nowhere to take their stuff to?

[Keef]

Well then that changes things, but in this case the way I was reading it, the person was just being arkward.

[mockney piers]

> Am I right in thinking that that is a Panzer Ferdinand from WW2

You are indeed, I hotlunk it to its wikipedia page, so just click on the pic.

I guess it makes sense that in times of total war a country turns to its existing industrialists for expertise and production capacity.

Swords into ploughshares and back again. As someone pointed out it was no different here really. I think it was that Porsche's son who went on to make nice sports cars a decade later.

[Ant]

> I hotlunk it to it's wikipedia page

I love that. Does it follow the sing/sang/sung pattern of vowel shifts? Link, lank, lunk: lovely.

[mockney piers]

I do like a good irregular, I'm terrible with plurals too. Can't abide cheeses, it should be chigh or something.