Please listen to the whole truth before you lambaste me.
I asked the family (one woman, four kids, one adult teenager) that live in my property to find another place to live because I wanted the house back. I gave the section 21 notice ages two months ago. They did not leave. I said, ok, if you don't leave by 1st of December, I will go to court to evict you.
I asked nicely; I told the woman my family are coming to join me for Christmas, we have not seen each other for over a year and my current property is not big enough to host dinner; so I needed my old property back urgently but she didn't care.
I have changed the locks before and no one has taken legal action against me and I ONLY DO IT for emergency/drastic measures when the tenant doesn't listen or has broken our agreement and I can't be bothered to spend my business (time/money) going through the court system which takes ages.
Every landlord I know changes the locks and it gets the tenants to comply with eviction.
Unfortunately, on 2nd December evening, she called the Met saying i was harassing her (false) and that she was stranded outside and could not access her house- they told her it was a civil matter but the police recorded the incident and she has used the police statement as evidence in the letter before action.
I have already taken repossession of the property, I believe they are residing in a BnB at the moment provided by Greenwich council?
What are my options and my defence to this alleged unlawful eviction claim by the tenant and her solicitor?
aburke626 on December 17th, 2019 at 16:31 UTC »
Can we add an Ebenezer flair for this? I think he missed a little info, he meant to add:
“Are there no prisons? And the union workhouses, are they still in operation? Those who are badly off must go there. If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
frezik on December 17th, 2019 at 16:18 UTC »
You always know it's going to be good when a post starts like this. Almost as reliable as "Just for the record, I'm not a pedophile".
NerdySciFiChick on December 17th, 2019 at 16:05 UTC »
That sounds like a lot of effort to have big place for a dinner. I'm no slumlord but surely the time and cost to get new tenants in would be more than, I don't know, rending an Airbnb or catering at a restaurant?