Illegal eviction is a criminal offence.
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An illegal eviction is not a civil dispute - the police have a duty to act.
edit: beaten to it.
edit: beaten to it.
Exactly.
A lodger doesn't have an assured shorthold tenancy agreement.
A lodger can be kicked out by the landlord without notice.
If lodger decides to stay landlord can call the police who will remove the lodger (in fact, they'll just convince them to leave).
Seen this many times.
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They still don’t care.
If you offer the tenant x amount of money, they move out, you pay the money, that’s that.
The police won’t do a thing.
I agree if it is a proper lodger arrangement where you actually take a room in the landlord's real normal home.
But the sort of "sham" arrangements you are talking about, where the landlord reserves a room in an HMO, but actually lives with his wife and kids, will mean that an assured shorthold tenancy has been created. That is undisputed and there is plenty of case law which makes that clear. And if the tenant is evicted without due process through the courts, that will be an illegal eviction. Which is a criminal offence. And it would be easy in that type of case to make a civil claim for thousands of pounds for illegal eviction.
Good luck proving that the landlord lives with his wife.
I know 2 men, married to "hard work" wives and they have a room to live during break up periods.
One rents it, the other owns the property and keeps a room for himself, his "tenants" are lodgers.
I’Ive never read of police prosecuting for illegal eviction, it seems to done (with increasing infrequency) by the local Council.
The tenant the OP refers to didn't pay his rent so won’t (or shouldn't) have a hope in hell of getting a council flat.
The tenant the OP refers to didn't pay his rent so won’t (or shouldn't) have a hope in hell of getting a council flat.
indeed non payment off rent can be taken as making yourself homeless buuuuuttttt
with children they cannot take that route as they must house children and the simplest and cheapest is with the adult
Its just him i think, but locking your family in a room is a social services matter
its all back to the stupidity off the cameron government stop direct payments to landlords instead give the rent to the tenants to give to the landlord just so they could inflate the benefits they where getting to demonise people on benefits
now the feckless the ones without the ability to budget the ones with addictions the skint ones now have extra money ???
further exacerbated by the bedroom tax causing further arrears
i understand now payment can now be direct again but shortfalls between maximum rent paid and actual rent need to be made up causing impossible to get out off merrygo round that no one likes or gains from
Van Hoogstraten acquired a number of props in Brighton
All full of squatters / drug addicts etc
Plod was always getting called out to the place
Hoogstraten sent in the heavy brigade the tenants (?) had 2 choices
10 mins to get out or they would be carried out possibly unconscious after getting forcibly removed ( basically duffed up)
Afaik residents in the street thanked him as he did more in half a day to rid the area of crime than plod did in years
All full of squatters / drug addicts etc
Plod was always getting called out to the place
Hoogstraten sent in the heavy brigade the tenants (?) had 2 choices
10 mins to get out or they would be carried out possibly unconscious after getting forcibly removed ( basically duffed up)
Afaik residents in the street thanked him as he did more in half a day to rid the area of crime than plod did in years
Similar thing happened down this way
I know the bloke involved
He had a property that was going to be knocked down and rebuilt
Squatters moved in
Him and his 2 brothers plus a few mates adopted the base ball bat and balaclava approach / method
It worked
I know the bloke involved
He had a property that was going to be knocked down and rebuilt
Squatters moved in
Him and his 2 brothers plus a few mates adopted the base ball bat and balaclava approach / method
It worked
I have paid a High court enforcement specialist and it SHOULD take
6 weeks for permission
2 weeks for writ
15 days to evict
At the moment, the tenant is paying rent in dribs and drabs and whatever he feels like. The other rooms are empty. Should I get the same estate agent to rent out the other rooms? With other estate agents, the existing tenant may cause trouble and at least I can tell the current estate agent to have a word with him.
I plan to rent out the whole house to working professionals or to a family once this bin leaves. I should be making £2,500 from the property but am currently making £200-300 only.
6 weeks for permission
2 weeks for writ
15 days to evict
At the moment, the tenant is paying rent in dribs and drabs and whatever he feels like. The other rooms are empty. Should I get the same estate agent to rent out the other rooms? With other estate agents, the existing tenant may cause trouble and at least I can tell the current estate agent to have a word with him.
I plan to rent out the whole house to working professionals or to a family once this bin leaves. I should be making £2,500 from the property but am currently making £200-300 only.
Anyone?
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