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Tenants upped and left!

gimpotronitus · 2008-07-20 20:33:19

Hi, Social Welfare tenants moved into the house I rent about 3 months ago, paid a deposit of one months rent and everything seemed fine. It is a 12 month lease. The rent is normally paid on the first of each month. The rent last month was two weeks late. This month, they did not pay the rent at all. I tried to contact the…

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20-07-2008 9:33pm

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gimpotronitus

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Hi,

Social Welfare tenants moved into the house I rent about 3 months ago, paid a deposit of one months rent and everything seemed fine. It is a 12 month lease. The rent is normally paid on the first of each month. The rent last month was two weeks late. This month, they did not pay the rent at all.

I tried to contact the tenants - I rang them, txted them etc.. nothing. So today I went to the house, it looked empty and abondoned. When I let myself in it was clear they had moved out and had left a few bags of rubbish behind - dirty feckers.

Anyway, I am betting none of the bills were paid, call it a hunch. The tenancy was fully registered with PRTB etc..

What should I do now? They wont respond to any attempts at contact and dont answer the phone...just nothing!!

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#2 21-07-2008 1:23pm
davidoco

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A tenant can only terminate a fixed term tenancy where there the landlord has been in breach of his or her obligations.

No offence to your tenants but they wouuld not be a good mark for court proceedings (small claims or not) and therefore you should be posting a "house to let" on daft.ie right now.

ESB bills should be in the tenants name and you do a reading now.

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#3 21-07-2008 5:24pm
bugler

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In summary: Change the locks, and be thankful they left at all. It would be worse if they'd stayed!

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#4 21-07-2008 6:40pm
Victor

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Check your rights first - while it might look abandoned, is it?

See this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055309275

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