Hello everyone,
My sister (who is pregnant and beyond stressed at this point) has a nightmare tenant that I need some advice on.
Her tentant is a single mum with one child who reduced her rent twice of her own accord (breaking the terms of the lease). This crucified my sister and her family as they had to pay rent and a mortgage (they only moved as the commute to work was too long). They have always been very good to this tenant and even agreed to the reduced rent because it was better than nothing. Then she decides to start skipping weeks and not paying at all.
They went through the proper procedure and issued a notice to vacate. Lease was up and tenant said she wouldn’t move without her deposit. She owed nearly 3 times the value of the deposit in rent so they refused (they didn’t have the money in any case). She brought them in front of the PTRB for holding onto her deposit they fought back with a claim of over-holding in the property and rent arrears.
My sister won the case and the tenant was ordered to pay ‘x’ amount of rent arrears. They know they haven’t a hope of getting any money from her but just want her out.
The tenant has now decided she wants to appeal and hasn’t paid a cent in rent for weeks – she owes them close on €2k at the moment and its killing them financially – they have a young family of their own. She is getting a cheque from social welfare of more than two thirds of her rent every week and is just holding onto it for herself. My sister has informed the social welfare officer that she is not paying her rent and they say they can’t chase everyone – lack of resources etc…
They have had no choice but to engage a solicitor – but he is talking about issuing letters and they know she won’t pay any heed.
Their savings are gone trying to fund the situation and it seems they can’t do anything.
ANY advice at all would be much appreciated!
My sister (who is pregnant and beyond stressed at this point) has a nightmare tenant that I need some advice on.
Her tentant is a single mum with one child who reduced her rent twice of her own accord (breaking the terms of the lease). This crucified my sister and her family as they had to pay rent and a mortgage (they only moved as the commute to work was too long). They have always been very good to this tenant and even agreed to the reduced rent because it was better than nothing. Then she decides to start skipping weeks and not paying at all.
They went through the proper procedure and issued a notice to vacate. Lease was up and tenant said she wouldn’t move without her deposit. She owed nearly 3 times the value of the deposit in rent so they refused (they didn’t have the money in any case). She brought them in front of the PTRB for holding onto her deposit they fought back with a claim of over-holding in the property and rent arrears.
My sister won the case and the tenant was ordered to pay ‘x’ amount of rent arrears. They know they haven’t a hope of getting any money from her but just want her out.
The tenant has now decided she wants to appeal and hasn’t paid a cent in rent for weeks – she owes them close on €2k at the moment and its killing them financially – they have a young family of their own. She is getting a cheque from social welfare of more than two thirds of her rent every week and is just holding onto it for herself. My sister has informed the social welfare officer that she is not paying her rent and they say they can’t chase everyone – lack of resources etc…
They have had no choice but to engage a solicitor – but he is talking about issuing letters and they know she won’t pay any heed.
Their savings are gone trying to fund the situation and it seems they can’t do anything.
ANY advice at all would be much appreciated!