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It is now abundantly clear that I have fallen victim to a professional tenant who now is in my flat and will live free for six months until I can get her out.  I feel so down about it I can barely stand to go about my day.  Luckily I am in work and have a supportive husband but I feel humiliated. This will be part of my life for at least six months. I can't stand it.

She knows every trick in the book and I have been totally taken for a ride, including knowing to ask whether I lived at the property, as the rules are different and you can get people out quicker if the landlord lives at the property. I am really beside myself. Thank god i have a buy to let mortgage or I might have to sell my house.

I am really sorry to hear this. It makes me really wonder that things appear to be swinging too far the other way so that ordinary landlords who just want to go about normal business will be victimised and pernalised in the process of rules and laws protecting tenants. I assume you've exhausted every possible avenue?
Hope you will be able to get through each day as it gets closer to when you can evict.

Thank you. I have spoken to a lawyer and to the managing director of my rental company and I am doing everything I can, which is almost nothing. It is a waiting game now. Terrible.

Quote from: Maurey on January 13, 2018, 05:05:12 PMThank god i have a buy to let mortgage or I might have to sell my house.

What does this mean, please?

Not really of much help now, but I'm just wondering who took out the references, what came up in them and how she managed to slip through the net, surely her credit record wasn't up to much? Just wondered if she lied on the applications? If so, has she committed fraud? If she has, would that help with the eviction process on the section 8 ? Would the letting contract be invalid if she has committed fraud? Also, did the letting agent fail to take out correct referencing? Would they be liable for any costs if they failed to do the job properly?  Maybe worth going over the paperwork again. I expect the more experienced Landlords on here would know more.

Firstly, try not to let it get to you. She might be living in your property but that doesn't mean you have to let her live in your head. If she's not paying the rent then issue a Section 8 on grounds 8,10&11 as soon as she's two months in arrears and, if you're so inclined, start proceedings in the small claims court to recover the debt.