The Property Advice Bureau can help Landlords with Problem Tenants in the Glasgow area:
Are you struggling to let an empty property?
If you are a Landlord with problem tenants on a short Assured Tenancy Agreement.
Minimise further mortgage payments and lost revenue by contacting the Property Adviced Bureau now.
Why are selling your property investment?
- Due to bad or problem tenants?
- Void periods, your investment is costing more than the return?
- Need the cash?
- Due to retirement?
Whatever the reason, the Property Advice Bureau probably has a solution that will fulfil your needs. We can buy your property for cash today!
Problem tenants come in all shapes and forms
Tenants that started out well can change, usually caused by not keeping you informed of a job loss, and subsequent loss of income. This has an impact on the attractiveness of the return on your investment. Before you know it, you are two months behind with the rent, and the tenant thinks that their one month’s deposit will see you alright. If you use the deposit for payment of rent, then what do you have left to offset against repairs, when the tenant leaves. This is not how you expected things to turn out.
What can I do? The tenant will not pay the rent and will not move out.
In Scotland, there are specific laws that you must follow in order in order to recover your property investment from your problem tenant. If the tenant fails to leave voluntarily, then you must apply to the courts to evict the tenant. To evict the tenant yourself is a criminal offence, and you may have to make financial recompense to the tenant for not following the law – how galling would that be??
To evict a tenant what are the procedures to follow?
In order to start the procedure to evict your bad tenant, you must give the tenant written notice that you wish them to vacate the property. The notice must include the following:
- Details of the property address and the tenant’s name, and include your name and address
- It must state why you asking the tenant to leave i.e. rent arrears
- It must state when you want them to leave (you must allow them at least 14 days from the date that you served them with the notice).
What do I do if the tenant still ignores my notice?
If the time limit has expired, and the tenant has done nothing, you may apply to the local court for an order for repossession of your property. You will need to satisfy the court that the correct procedures have been followed when you served the tenant with a notice to quit. You will also be required to have given the tenant the correct amount of notice to quit. If the tenancy was for a period of more than forty days, then the notice period must not be less than forty days. If the lease is for a period of less than four months, then the period of notice must be equivalent to one third of the period of the let, but subject to a period of not more than twenty eight days.
What will the court do to repossess my property?
Assuming that you have followed the procedures correctly to remove your problem tenant, then the court will issue a repossession order, and also costs, if any, provided that the tenant was not waiting on a housing benefit claim being granted. Even now you do not have the right to evict the tenant!!
You must get a Sheriff Officer to implement the repossession order.
What other option do I have to protect my property investment?
You could opt to contact the Property Advice Bureau, who would be willing to purchase your property for cash today.
