To be pissed off at having just seen my tenants spending a load of cash whilst they're behind on rent?

[JennylovesRosie]

I am fed up to the back teeth.

This is the third month now where they're falling behind.

(I know them by their appearance and we have a mutual friend on a social networking site)

I have just seen them paying for a spa and no doubt it'll be up on social media next week (they like to brag and display all their newly acquired gains in Instagrammed glory.)

Next month my kids won't have the birthday parties they wanted because I'm subsidising these idiots living expenses and incurring charges as for their late/part payments.

Has anyone managed to get tenants out despite then not being 2 months late on rent. The Lettings agency have told me I'm stuck with them . Can I fine them?

They got a 12 fixed contract in January and surprise-surprise they started to default from day one of it.

I'm so upset.

I'm sorry but it's a fair point to make.

LL on mumsnet get an incredibly hard time. We're single handedly responsible for the current housing crisis, lack of housing stock, high prices etc.

If you don't want to rent go and buy your own home and deal with the associated costs of doing so.

Yes and certainly dont rent while you are getting there. Just umm, dont live anywhere until you can buy a house.

Where did you live while saving for your house lamu?

If you don't want to rent go and buy your own home and deal with the associated costs of doing so.

I half suspect you are trolling. Nobody could actually say that with a straight face.

Yeah, live on a park bench all in the name of being successful and buying a fucking house.

I think people are well within their rights to complain about private renting while being unable to buy their own home. They're lining the pockets of a perfect stranger, creating a little nest egg for them to live their days out on (if you're doing it right) all the while struggling themselves, what with the shocking rent prices & all.

If you're the kind of cunt who says "don't moan about renting if you aren't going to do something about buying your own home", then just absolutely, unequivocally fuck off

Suspect lamu lived on a cloud while saving for that house.

A cloud, darling parents or a boyfriend/husband of some kind.

But if you've no family or boyfriend to rely on, definitely go for the cloud option. I can't see any other way for single mothers to buy the house they should be working hard for while not moaning about rent prices

Cruickshank

If your employer didn't pay you for a month and someone said "if you're upset about this it isn't the job for you?" What would you say?

Don't act the fool and be goady.

Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder about landlords... Am I right?

I'm not a troll. Just fed up of the vitriol against landlords on here.

I lived with 4 other girls in a double room in Marylebone. Paid £50 a week in rent. It was shit. But a means to an end.

Will be back later after I've put the kids to bed.

we rented our house out when we moved to a different area. We were messed about by numerous awful tenants and lost loads of money, but had fuck all rights. I've heard the same story from friends.
I would never ever ever ever ever be a landlord again. Never.

I lived with 4 other girls in a double room in Marylebone. Paid £50 a week in rent. It was shit. But a means to an end.

So you rented while getting yourself in a position to buy? Is that what you are saying? And you had no physical or mental limitations or caring responsibilities to prevent you a) holding down 2 jobs (which BtW i do whilst having caring responsibilities) and b) living in a houseshare to reduce rent costs?

OP I haven't RTFT but I'm in a very similar situation l, almost identical, to you and wrote a thread about it a week ago.

Posters also started telling me if I couldn't afford to lose this money I wasn't cut out to be a landlord. A kind of bizarre goady madness where people think that all tenants are right and all landlords are wrong. Actually I won't fall behind on my payments if my tenants don't pay the rent but why should I pay for them to live in my lovely flat when they tell me they can't pay this month because they're going to LA? Absolute wasters and scrounges playing the system in a way they know they can't be evicted. It's sickening.

Anyway- the helpful bit. You can threaten your tenants with legal action based on their behaviour so far. You can give them a scare with a section 8 notice of the 1988 housing act citing parts 10 and 11 which basically means rent is due at the time of the notice issued and rent is persistently paid late. This threatens legal action and you never know it may cause them to stick to the terms of the contract they signed?

Good luck. I'll be issuing that notice in the next week.

"Go out and buy your own home, if you don't want to rent. Do what you have to do to get there."

Anything? Really Because that can have a habit of biting you in the arse. How would you feel for instance if someone was working in the sex industry as a means of saving up to buy a home and then you found out that someone you know was accessing their services.

"If your employer didn't pay you for a month and someone said "if you're upset about this it isn't the job for you?" What would you say"

This already happens Its called workfare.

Ffs should I have put a disclaimer in there?!

Look I'm not saying someone with a disability or the unemployed or someone who has young children or whatever can do what I did. I'm just telling you how I did it.

I lived frugally for over two years earning 30k, sharing a double room with 4 other girls. I hardly spent on any extras. Worked Monday to Friday 9-5, then Thursday, Friday and Saturday I worked in a bar. In the end my brother guarantored my mortgage to get me my first flat but I had managed to save over 40k. Yes of course the market was different then bla bla bla. But there are lots of other first time buyer incentives out there to get on the ladder. It's not easy but it can be done. If you feel so hard done by renting do whatever it takes to buy your own home.

Not everyone wants to buy Some ppl would prefer to rent. The system for renting should be fair on both sides.

Why are ppl being told they have GOT to buy a house. It wouldnt happen with any other item.

I'm just telling you how I did it.

No you werent. You were telling people to do what you did.

"Go out and buy your own home, if you dont want to rent. Do what you have to do to get there"

I lived frugally for over 2 years earning £30k

A whole 2 years? On only £30k? You poor thing. Have you had therapy for that traumatic experience?

You really are not anywhere near the real fucking world. Your posts speak volumes.

Brother guarantor, inheritance from husband's father, £40k saved over 2 years.

Fine, if you don't want to buy your own home then you should pay rent and pay on time. And don't begrudge your landlord for owning the property.

Oh fuck of martha

How about no. Your comment was ridiculous thing to say.

Lol, @ Lamu, the classic response of the person without a leg to stand on😋