Bad Tennant Trace ?
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Had a tennant in a property but has done a runner, causing £1500 damage, stolen property worth £3.5k curtains, poles, carpet, light fittings, fitted wardrobes, bathroom fittings etc and owes 4 months rent, can't trace them, police are not interested in the theft or the damage, can't persue with the solicitor for the rent arrears until they have the new address to serve the paperwork, any suggestions on a trace, would be appreciated, thankyou in advance.
Much sympathy, but really don't throw good money after bad. If you track the scumbag down, the chances of getting anything out of them are pretty slim.
Write if off to experience, and don't let it take any more of your attention and focus. You can't change what's happened, but you can make it worse by focusing on it!
Write if off to experience, and don't let it take any more of your attention and focus. You can't change what's happened, but you can make it worse by focusing on it!
How dare you post a photo of my kitchen!
That aside,OP, did you not take a deposit? How did you let the tenant get away with four months arrears?
An Inquiry Agent could probably find your tenant, but he might not be worth suing, as pointed out above. Next time, get better references and a bigger deposit.
That aside,OP, did you not take a deposit? How did you let the tenant get away with four months arrears?
An Inquiry Agent could probably find your tenant, but he might not be worth suing, as pointed out above. Next time, get better references and a bigger deposit.
Breadvan73 said:
might not be worth suing. Next time, get better references and a bigger deposit.
Not quite as expensive a situation as yours, but had to 'take it on the chin' in very similar circumstances recently.
I could probably have tracked him down and taken him to court, and maybe I might have got some of the money back - but at what cost in time, hassle and stress?
Breadvan73 said:
That aside,OP, did you not take a deposit? How did you let the tenant get away with four months arrears?
Easily done really...tenant is late with the rent, says it’s the banks fault, money is coming, oh there’s a problem with payroll at work etc etc. It soon drifts to be 2 months before you realise that they have no intention of paying, then it takes another 6 weeks to get a court order to get them out, then another 4-6 weeks to actually get the bailiffs to turn up to change the locks and boot them out.It’s happened to us just recently, not as bad as with the OP as the flat was left in one piece, but even with a month and a half as deposit we are still down nearly 2k on unpaid rent.
mathmos said:
Easily done really...tenant is late with the rent, says it’s the banks fault, money is coming, oh there’s a problem with payroll at work etc etc. It soon drifts to be 2 months before you realise that they have no intention of paying, then it takes another 6 weeks to get a court order to get them out, then another 4-6 weeks to actually get the bailiffs to turn up to change the locks and boot them out.
It’s happened to us just recently, not as bad as with the OP as the flat was left in one piece, but even with a month and a half as deposit we are still down nearly 2k on unpaid rent.
This. I also had a PITA tenant, but because they had kids it was even harder to get them to move on. Resolved when I said that I was turning up top change the locks...they had left the previous evening.It’s happened to us just recently, not as bad as with the OP as the flat was left in one piece, but even with a month and a half as deposit we are still down nearly 2k on unpaid rent.
ps - Dubai reference above is inaccurate.
little-red-canam said:
..... £1500 damage, stolen property worth £3.5k curtains, poles, carpet, light fittings, fitted wardrobes, bathroom fittings etc and owes 4 months rent, can't trace them, police are not interested in the theft or the damage.....
As a landlord myself I find this bit a piss boiler. If I rented a car, stripped it out, kicked all the panels in, then did a runner, the police would class it as a crime would they not.Why is it different for a rented house? What do the resident BIB think?
anonymous said:
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He has reported it, but they are not interested. I had a similar thing when someone conned me out of some property, police told me it was a civil matter because it was just the fact that they hadn't paid me that was the issue. Means, or intent didn't seem to come into it. I'm certain the guy is doing the same thing to other people to this day, as he seems untouchable.
My brother has just lost over a grand paying up front fees for martial arts classes for his kids. The organiser has done a runner with the cash, and not provided the classes. Again its classed as a civil matter.
I know a few people who have had peoperty damaged and/or stolen by tenants, and it is never calssed as a crime by the police.
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