I want to evict a tenant who has been there for 40 years

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I would like a tenant who has lived in a cottage inherited by DH to leave. She has lived there for 40 years. She raised her family there, spent her marriage with her late DH, now looks after her DGC there. She pays very, very little rent and this has always been OK as she and her DH looked after the place. However, in the last 10yrs things have deteriorated, the house is now beginning to become quite a concern and the rent is approximately 1/4 to 1/5 of the market rent. The cost of repairs would run to ££££s - she couldn't afford it and I wouldn't expect her to pay it anyway. But we can't afford to do it either (as the rent would not cover it and we have no additional capital) and each week that goes by the place deteriorates further.

All and every suggestion welcome. I am braced for a flaming about putting an old lady out of her family home. I am also hoping for possible solutions! Thanks

Yes I've always wondered about this thread and how things have resolved in the end ?

Did you give the old lady the house?

I've often thought of this too. What happened OP?

Yes I'm dying to know what happened in the end. I hope you didn't go with the bloody batty idea of giving her the house. Honestly some people have very large chips on their shoulders and talk total bollocks when they say they'd do the same

I agree with LEM.

maybe look at grants to maintain the property like this www.boilergrants.info/form.php

I want to know too! I remember this thread and always wondered what happened in the end.

I got hooked on reading this.

Wow.

Who on Earth ever came up with that form of tenancy? The UK is a really weird country.

And whoever compared this property to an inherited old Nissan Micra (that she would give away) v an inherited Bentley (that she would keep).

This property probably costs the same amount as the Bentley.

I wonder if the OP is the woman who runs Stagecoach Buses who is at the brunt of a huge facebook hate campaign?

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The op stated that she's skint, so unlikely to be Anne Gloag.

I doubt it's the same this OP refers to the tenant as being a widow.

Certainly hope not Ann Gloag's phenomenally rich. She doesn't come across as a wildly empathetic person.

I found this thread really hard reading. OP didn't seem to accept that they should have done anything about the upkeep of the property, with its rising damp & rotten windows, despite the fact that it's obviously an appreciating asset. Leaving aside thoughts of the old woman living in what must have been uncomfortable conditions, it's not normal to watch a property you own falling into disrepair and do nothing about it but blame the tenant! She just sounded odd. It was a relief to hear the tenant's family seemed confident about her ability to move into better housing.

Whatever she was saving on her 'peppercorn' rent, I bet she's still better off in a dry, insulated house with a working boiler! My bills have halved after making a similar move, and I wasn't trying to live in a decrepit farmhouse.

GallicCunt didn't they inherit the house though? It wasn't them who left it to fall into wrack and ruin. From what I read the low rent in exchange for maintenance being done by the tenant was in the original contract - they kept up with this for 30 years, then just stopped.

It's irrelevant that they didn't have to buy it. Just letting the property you own crumble away because "it's not your responsibility" strikes me as cutting your nose off to spite your face. The whole attitude (as I saw it, anyway) made me flinch.

No, I didn't feel they should give the house away

I meant that I read it that they had inherited it that way, got quotes for repairs (as responsible landlords) and couldn't afford do get it done...

I could fully understand this - my M&D have just had their house modernised and it cost them £25k. If I had inherited the house, there's no way I could have afforded to do that myself, together with paying inheritance tax.

Oh, I see. Thanks.