Tenant broken boiler, refusing me access to check it
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TheBinarySheep said:
What seems to be happening is that the tenant is requesting that UC close their current contract with UC, and then she's starting a new one. Doing this then cancels any UC47's that were setup on the closed contract, hence why our managed payments keep getting stopped.
The amount of time this mouthbreather spends trying to fiddle the system, you'd think it would be easier to just get a job.Why is their even a system in place that allows the claimant the ability to close a current contract and start a new one? The amount of admin UC must do going round in circles as claimants try and dodge paying rent must be enormous.
The idea is absolutely infuriating and its not even my house!
The idea is absolutely infuriating and its not even my house!
TheBinarySheep said:
The case manager at UC has placed a note on the account explaining that the tenant appears to be closing contracts to avoid making rent payments, and to not close the account, but I don't know what impact that'll actually have.
It may be obvious, and every chance you're already doing this, buy a diary, note the persons name, the time/date, and what's discussed every time you speak with UC. Write something obvious on the cover in permanent black marker, 'UC conversations' or something.Will save you no end of aggro, not having the same conversations again and again and.....
All said, I don't envy your predicament.
Edited by Fermit and Sexy Sarah on Thursday 22 July 13:50
Mark Benson said:
The amount of time this mouthbreather spends trying to fiddle the system, you'd think it would be easier to just get a job.
This was exactly what we said. If she put this much effort into a job I reckon she'd be doing well for herself.It'll be good if we can extract some rent from them, but what pleases us the most is knowing that she'll be absolutely furious if we manage to outfox her.
Even though we know that our last UC47 has been processed this morning, I've already submitted another in anticipation for her cancelling her existing contract. It'll take a couple of weeks for the new UC47 to get looked at, but I'll just keep doing this and hopefully every month we'll catch a payment.
Small update.
Due to COVID and court delays, a telephone hearing has been arranged between a judge, my solicitor and I'm guessing the tenants (if they bother), on the 9th September. It's some new process put in place by the courts to deal with possession claims. On the day, the judge will decide whether the case should proceed to a substantive hearing. We're being told as well that a settlement could be made on this day if the tenant agrees to a possession order then they won't be deemed to have made themselves homeless. I doubt the tenant will even be bothered to respond at all. Shame that this extra step has cost us another £400 though.
In the meantime, even though we have a managed payment setup with UC, we've not received a payment this month, so I'm guessing the tenant has worked their magic on the contract again and cancelled it.
Due to COVID and court delays, a telephone hearing has been arranged between a judge, my solicitor and I'm guessing the tenants (if they bother), on the 9th September. It's some new process put in place by the courts to deal with possession claims. On the day, the judge will decide whether the case should proceed to a substantive hearing. We're being told as well that a settlement could be made on this day if the tenant agrees to a possession order then they won't be deemed to have made themselves homeless. I doubt the tenant will even be bothered to respond at all. Shame that this extra step has cost us another £400 though.
In the meantime, even though we have a managed payment setup with UC, we've not received a payment this month, so I'm guessing the tenant has worked their magic on the contract again and cancelled it.
dingg said:
vaud said:
TheBinarySheep said:
Small update.
Due to COVID and court delays, a telephone hearing has been arranged between a judge, my solicitor and I'm guessing the tenants (if they bother), on the 9th September.
How did it go?Due to COVID and court delays, a telephone hearing has been arranged between a judge, my solicitor and I'm guessing the tenants (if they bother), on the 9th September.
Hope I'm wrong.
vaud said:
How did it go?
We won't get to find out for a few weeks. My understanding is a judge will look at the case, and if he needs to he'll try and speak with our solicitor/the tenant. Once he's done that he'll take some time to make a decision on whether it should proceed, but we've told that could take 2-3 weeks.
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