Quote Originally Posted by westcountryvillain View Post
Shaking my head in disbelief at this Mick, I hope there's a mechanism for you to get all or at the very least a good chunk of your money back.

Will these tenants be blacklisted, absolute vermin.
Thanks WCV.

The Council have been informed that they are keeping the rent and it’s not being passed on to us and from now on the money will be stopped from their benefits to pay back the £14k plus if lost rent but it will take years to get.

The £22k plus legal fees are lost because the tenants are both bankrupts and her brother who was guarantor are not worth chasing as he was already used as guarantor on their previous rental home on which they did exactly the same as they’ve done to us.

It will cost more in legal fees to try to recover than we would be due to get back and they know this.

Proper due diligence was not done on this family by our estate agent who handled the property for us but once again, proving that will cost more than we would get back.

With law changes coming in in favour of tenants later this year anyone must be mad to rent out now,it’s fraught with danger.

We are selling our final two rental houses at present and then father in laws house if we ever get it back.

The law and the government offers virtually no safeguards for landlords now so please do not fall into this renting out trap folks.