Eviction

[DorotheaDiamond]

Looks like I’m going to end up evicting my tenant (it will be section 21 but I know she won’t leave so possession order/bailiffs)…just wondering how the bailiffs actually remove someone from the property? Can they physically move someone? Or do they just wait until they are out and change the locks?

what happens if there are pets in the house?

what happens to the tenants belongings after that?

(no discussion about rights/wrongs of section 21 please - we need to sell for financial reasons)

We are still waiting for the tenants to be evicted. Section 21 served and expired. Possession order served and expired. Now waiting for court to issue warrant for eviction and a date for bailiffs to be given. About 10 weeks into this time line. Have been advised it’s about 17 weeks for courts to issue the warrant and another 10-12 for a bailiff date (we’re in East London). It’s a long process. Def would not have agreed to purchase had we known how long and arduous the process was. We have also lost two sets of buyers for our property who have gotten fed up waiting. Going by the time line advised by the court it will at least be April/May by the time we are able to complete. That’s a year from agreeing to buy and tenants being provided s.21.

@Calismom that's awful I am sorry.

@Calismom I’m in the same position…waiting for warrant/bailifff…am trying to get it raised to high court as their bailiffs have more power (count court bailiffs won’t physically remove tenant high court will)…currently tenant has an endless stream of randoms in and out whether she’s there or not, other unknowns potentially living there, and now two incidences of vandalism targeted at her/her friends (so far about £1000 of damage that muggins has to pay for)….

Thanks for the story OP. Expecting plenty more stories like this as a return to real terms positive rates flushes out the over leveraged from the last 20 years of this fascinating 'ponzi' esque housing market. Combine that with the addition of these properties onto the market and you would imagine the smarter 1% of landlords will be getting out ASAP!

Nothing new under the sun of course. Even Isaac Newton dabbled in the South Sea Bubble for a while, incurring large losses! Although clearly (even from the small sample in this thread ;) ), most landlords will not help invent calculus.

I wish it was a story…sadly it’s not. You may find this hard to believe but there are at least as many dodgy tenants as dodgy landlords…I wish I had been more professional and less supportive then I would have started the eviction process the first time she missed rent rather than waiting and discovering the anti social behavior when the neighbours started to complain.

also not over leveraged, and definitely getting out of the market.

@DorotheaDiamond ignore the twattish comments, some people just hate LL irrationally, never mind what their reasons are for having rented out their property and regardless of how reasonable they've been.

I was a LL for a while; we had to relocate for work (restructure of the company dh worked for, not our choice) - we couldn't sell in time so ended up letting out our house while renting in new area. We let it at a very favourable rent, always responded to the tenants and did everything by the book. Fortunately we had great tenants and no problems. When the tenant left we considered re-letting but having heard so many horror stories we thought we wouldn't push our luck, put the house back on the market and sold. This is in an area with a chronic shortage of family rentals. So yeah, another property which could have gone to a family who can't afford to get on the property ladder and need to rent, but is now unavailable. LL are selling up in droves. It really isn't helping the housing problem but hey, it makes a few bitter vitriolic posters feel better so all good huh