Best way to deal with a non paying tenant in rented farmhouse

Hampton

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Shropshire
What kind of house would you rather live in? Do you rent out the farmhouse & rent a semi in town for the sake of saving a few hundred quid a month?
I’d rather live in a house I can afford, than make everyone’s life a misery by squating. I don’t drive a Ferrari because I can’t afford it. I also don’t buy a Ferrari knowing I can’t afford it, not pay for it, but refuse to give it back.
 

Pilatus

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Location
cotswolds
Immoral is renting a house when you know you cannot afford to pay for it.
If they're in financial shite currently then they should have the balls to come and talk to you about it. But as oft the case some do the same thing over and over again just leaving a trail of debt behind them. Had a workshop tennant like that, in the end just drilled the lock out and emptied the premises, got a locksmith in sorted a new lock and that was that. Not sure it was legal but to be honest I couldnt bloody care.
I would make life as hard as possible for them. But out as soon as you can, you'll have to accept the loss. The carrot is that they continue to say they'll pay so you hold fire in the hope and on it drags, they may even stump up some funds to keep you sweet for a short while before they carry on as before.
Brilliant (y) (y)
 
I’d rather live in a house I can afford, than make everyone’s life a misery by squating. I don’t drive a Ferrari because I can’t afford it. I also don’t buy a Ferrari knowing I can’t afford it, not pay for it, but refuse to give it back.
There in lies the problem, people living beyond their means, that and the throw away consumer society.
 

Muddyroads

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NFFN Member
Location
Exeter, Devon
I haven’t read the whole thread, but from my own bitter experience, you have no choice but to play it absolutely by the book. I was in a similar situation a few years ago with a simple 3 bed semi. It turned out the defaulting tenant was virtually professional at it and knew exactly how the law works. If I’d put a foot wrong she’d have caught me out on it, and as it was it cost in the region of 10k in loss of rent, damage repairs etc.
 

essexpete

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Location
Essex
Dont get the tenants in the first place.
Before 1988, letting property was not seen as a viable business, we need to get back to that
I don't normally agree with you and some of your comments on this thread are pure bollax, you cannot blame genuine business-like landlords for taking advantage of an economic climate, that is business. Nevertheless the fact remains that the price of property must be influenced to a degree by buy to let and make it more difficult for some to get on the ownership ladder.
 

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