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.

Buckinbronco, I get a little jealous.

I'd love to be able to be in a position to have a mortgage on one house and be able to rent.

Sadly I'm a council house dwelling, not-much-hope-for-the-future type. Barely 2 pennies to rub together so yeah, I get jealous of property owners.

Blimey really aria? I just spent £700 on a 3YO and that was just in a village hall

Aw, sweetie. Is the system not working for you, despite you being in a position to - as long as everyone behaves - be able to scoop in a nice income from other people not being as far up the housing ladder as you? #sadface

I just spent £700 on a 3YO and that was just in a village hall

Local sports centre £58 (includes bouncy castle) cake from asda £14, £20 (generous) for food (that they wont eat!) £10 in poundland for 20 sets of bubbles to go in party bags with a slice of cake.

£20 on food? Mind you it was about 40 people. The sandwich platters alone were £100, sob

Aria Try living in a property that you cannot possibly live in (DV, and imagine the worst). No benefits to live elsewhere, because your home equates to assets of over £16,000. Houses don't sell overnight. What is one supposed to do in the meantime? Hand your hard earned property to to your abuser?

What is one to do whilst waiting for a property sale? Sleep on a park bench and scavenge from bins?

I look forward to your response.

I don't get that rubbish. Surely the response isn't but another house and rent out the one you share with your abuser

Ah ok, i'm planning Ds2's 7th birthday and i'm reckoning on 15-20 kids. Parents wont have to stay so not planning on feeding them. DCs will be getting little triangle sandwiches,(plain bread and butter for the fussies/ham/ham and cheese) cocktail sausages, carrot sticks, and ice cream from a tub.

*buy another house

Yeah, Rubbish, I'm not getting that either.

I can't respond to something that's completely flown over my head

£700 on a birthday party fuck me sideways.

You must be loaded.

I'm just really crap with money tbh

Saying that if I had £700 spare I'd probably go crazy & plan a massive birthday bash during the day then have a huge adult piss up at night

I hear ya.
I'm not in the £700 birthday party bracket quite yet but the other day I spent £70 on moisturiser and had a quiet moment to myself later on in the day and wondered how the fuck it happened

I'm exactly the same. The party just.... Happened

I can't quite understand why you're taking this so personally. Are you in rental arrears yourself? sad
Rude. I already said up thread I've rented for 17 years and never been late with rent.
Your comment irritated me because it was bollocks. Nobody on this thread said what you said and I resented the implication that we were defending non paying tenants.

It's the principle. You owe it, you pay it. I'd be suddenly deciding I needed to live there and get them moved out As soon as possible.

not sure why it seems acceptable to expect the landlord to provide you with credit.

The law should be tightened to prevent this I think.

I've not RTFT but in all my tenancy agreements (as the tenant) there is the 2 month clause stating that either party can terminate the agreement for any reason (not just rent) with 2 months notice. I've had this served on me before and I signed a12 month agreement in November and served 2 months notice in January to leave. Check with the agent about this. Apologies if this had already been discussed

Nobody can break a fixed term tenancy agreement early unless there is a break clause or by mutual agreement

Section 8.

I'm referring to the poster above who said that there was a clause in her tenancy agreement about ending the tenancy with 2 months notice. That doesn't apply to fixed term tenancies unless there is a break clause or by mutual agreement.
Possession proceedings on the grounds of breaking the tenancy agreement are a different matter

Totally agree hands

I am appalled at people's sense of right and wrong. why do people think they don't need to pay what they owe? It's equivalent to twoc (taking a car without consent, joyriding to you and me) in my mind in terms of what is right and wrong.

Surely theft or non payment is wrong?

I can sympathise with the frustration of people not paying their own way.

But I agree with cruikshank, you might not like the advice given but it is the truth.

If you don't have enough cash to survive two months void, you're not much better than the tenants that you're complaining about.

Everybody should have an emergency fund of between 3 and 12 months living expenses, as a landlord, it would have to be bigger to accommodate damage to the property, repairs, voids and new boilers.

Why can't you even afford your own daughter's birthday parties? You should have saved monthly in advance for twelve months, starting with the last party. It's not like they are a surprise or anything - they happen every year.

I do find it amusing that you bite cruikshank head off and you consider the advice bad because you do not like it rather than its merit at face value. It is just a business. If you get this easily offended, your reaction shows I really do not think you are cut out for landlording and property development.

This thread smells a little of victim blaming and I am not referring to the tenants here.