Tenant noving out after 2 weeks, does not want to pay rent , breaking contract - can we do anything?

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We could not sell our house so my sister is renting it from us with a friend. We are subsidising them as the rent does not cover the mortgage. We also allowed sister's friend to store her stuff in dd bedroom for 2 weeks, meaning we all had to sleep together, without charging her. During this time she lived rent free with my mum.

Friend and sister have fallen out, friend has moved out and is refusing to pay any rent. Her contract commitment is for six months and then she can give us a months notice.

Is there anything we can do?

My sister has now admitted that her friend has some dodgy mates who have been in the house and are intimidating. This girl has keys to my house and I am concerned.

Then I suspect you can't even evict your sister, to sell up or rent again, as long as she continues to pay her 40%. Very difficult way to have set the tenancy up and be secure I'm afraid.

I don't want to evict my sister, she will stay, and is happy to do so until we put the house back on the market.

So can you afforfd to only take the 40% for 5 months ? Legally you'd then have to give her 2 months notice before you could complete on a sale, although as she is family she may well be more flexible, but if you got another sharer in they may not be so timing becomes more tricky.