Help a blondeite with a professional dilemna

[Dingdell]

I'm way too soft believe me - EX copper is the important bit - I only wear the uniform as a special treat.

yeah, but did you keep the handcuffs and the truncheon?

Two truncheons, 1 set of handcuffs (standard issue) and 1 key.......which is attached to my whistle which I've lost.......

[celtic]

Hi All,

I was the 'blondeite with a dilemna'

Thanks for all your views etc. The problems i had with this were the agency didnt do its job properly in trying to recover the arrears and serving the correct notice until it was too late.The lady that deals with this kind of stuff was more interested in a quiet life than doing her job properly. Then we got a new owner whose attitude was if they dont pay they dont stay, which is fine but there are ways of doing this and it was a kneejerk reaction made mainly because of the previous failings of the agency.

The plan was to force entry to the flat and remove the tenants belongins and leave them in the street for her when she returns home. Because of the shifts she works this could well have been at 11pm at night and i dont think (regardless of rent arrears) that this would have been an acceptable thing to happen.

As it happens, i went round to the flat the day after this post to warn her what could happen but she had already left and had taken her belongings with her.

i am no longer there so am free to say thank you all for your views and to Richard for posting it for me.

Vince

[kinboshi]

So I guess the landlord won't get the money that he's owed?

[Silo Graham]

Hope it didn't get awkward for you Celtic, and I think you did the right thing (with regards to going to warn them)

[celtic]

So I guess the landlord won't get the money that he's owed?

Nope. However if we went through the proper channels and got her evicted then we would have got judgement on the arrears and she would have had to pay them back. Admittedly it would probably have been £50-£100 per month but would have been better than nothing. Illegally evicting a tenant never gets the arrears back.

[kinboshi]

Wasn't saying the illegal eviction would have helped.  Just that the woman technically 'stole' from the landlord.

[Jon MW]

My mum works as a Revenue Officer for a housing association (she helps people find ways to pay, but if they don't she get's rid of them) - she was distinctly unimpressed when I relayed how you're ex-employers were acting.

Not particularly from a moral point of view, mainly from the business point of view, "what's the point when they could do it properly, get rid of the tenant and get the arrears?" She was genuinely perplexed as to why they could be such idiots about it.

It sounds like a good company to be out of , good luck on finding replacement employment 

[celtic]

Absolutely Kin, and that is totally wrong. But she was allowed to get away with it.

Wasn't saying the illegal eviction would have helped.  Just that the woman technically 'stole' from the landlord.

[celtic]

My mum works as a Revenue Officer for a housing association (she helps people find ways to pay, but if they don't she get's rid of them) - she was distinctly unimpressed when I relayed how you're ex-employers were acting.

Not particularly from a moral point of view, mainly from the business point of view, "what's the point when they could do it properly, get rid of the tenant and get the arrears?" She was genuinely perplexed as to why they could be such idiots about it.
It sounds like a good company to be out of , good luck on finding replacement employment 

Cheers Jon

It was a kneejerk reation by the new owner of the business to placate the owner of the property as she was unaware that the tenant was 4 months in arrears because the agency hadnt told her.... The owner of the property had nothing to do or knew about the planned illegal eviction, and the owner of the business didnt realise that she wouldnt be able to recover the arrears by doing this, who was really winning here???

[bolt pp]

Absolutely Kin, and that is totally wrong. But she was allowed to get away with it.

Wasn't saying the illegal eviction would have helped.  Just that the woman technically 'stole' from the landlord.

N1, i'm well pleased for her, gl to her, i hope it was for a nice few quid as well.

[kinboshi]

Absolutely Kin, and that is totally wrong. But she was allowed to get away with it.

Wasn't saying the illegal eviction would have helped.  Just that the woman technically 'stole' from the landlord.

N1, i'm well pleased for her, gl to her, i hope it was for a nice few quid as well.

Why?

[bolt pp]

Absolutely Kin, and that is totally wrong. But she was allowed to get away with it.

Wasn't saying the illegal eviction would have helped.  Just that the woman technically 'stole' from the landlord.

N1, i'm well pleased for her, gl to her, i hope it was for a nice few quid as well.

Why?

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[kinboshi]

Absolutely Kin, and that is totally wrong. But she was allowed to get away with it.

Wasn't saying the illegal eviction would have helped.  Just that the woman technically 'stole' from the landlord.

N1, i'm well pleased for her, gl to her, i hope it was for a nice few quid as well.

Why?

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coelacanth

[ifm]

Fair play to ya, i'd have "popped" round and seen if i could help her "sort" her debts out too

[byronkincaid]

I'm going to need to rent a place soon and I've been told that because I'm an internet poker layabout it's might be difficult finding a nice place. Can any landlords, letting agents or poker players who rent give me any advice? I haven't rented since I was a student 15 years ago and I haven't had a proper job for 3 and a half years.