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People getting evicted -can't pay

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Iamnotloobrushphobic · 04/05/2016 21:32

I'm sat here watching can't pay we'll take it away and every time I watch this I get really annoyed that people can be evicted on the spot with no prior notice if the landlord gets an order from the high court.
Some of the people in previous episodes haven't even been in rent arrears, it has simply been the landlords wanting their property back for numerous reasons.
I have been a landlord and had quite possibly the worst tenants ever - they stopped paying rent and threatened to burn down the property but I couldn't put the children on the street with zero notification that it would be happening that day.
How do people live with themselves knowing that they have sent high court enforcement agents to people's homes and given them just an hour to pack and leave? I can actually understand it in cases where the tenants just don't want to pay / are deliberately damaging the property (even though I would still struggle to go it myself) but many of those being evicted haven't done anything wrong (some have).

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RidersOnTheStorm · 08/05/2016 09:55

I said "some" Apricot. Did you miss that?

And how do you feel about the woman I mentioned? If you don't think she's deserving of sympathy then it's your attitude that stinks. And that house was pretty much wrecked by the time she got it back. But she's a LL so it serves her right, eh?

The tenant moved in with no intention of paying any rent. Some tenants do that. I have no sympathy for them at all.

specialsubject · 08/05/2016 10:42

No notice of the exact day ,but plenty of notice that the eviction will happen. Its not a surprise from the sky, is it?

ReallyTired · 08/05/2016 17:45

I think the system is fine as it is. All the high court is giving the landlord permission to use physical force to enforce the county judgment. Such physical force would not be necessary if the tenants obeyed the county court judgement in the first place.

I feel councils should be forced to recognise the county court judgement and rehome people with expecting them to wait for the ballifs.

Apricot the courts are neutral. They are there to see that everyone is treated justly. If the tenant thinks that eviction is unfair they have the opportunity to argue their case at the county stage.

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