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Over the weekend I had two tenants move out of a two bed house they have been renting from me for the last three years (they are buying elsewhere).
A great shame for me as they were model tenants, and I have to find new people.
The next door neighbour (a 75 year old gent with a terminal illness) rang me as they were moving out to explain his sister, with a disabled daughter, was about to made homeless because her landlord had not been paying the mortgage company, with the rent she'd been paying him.
Not only that but she'd only come back to Birmingham from Blackpool in November last year, to be closer to her family, following the death of her husband. Not a good place to be at 59.
After going to see her to gather some information, I spoke to the solicitors in charge of the repossession, who confirmed that they were acting on behalf of Northern Rock, and further confirmed that she was a tenant and not in any way involved in the repossession.
I also spoke to the local Neighbourhood Office to confirm that she had presented herself to them as about to be made homeless - again, this checked out.
Long story short - she takes up her tenancy this weekend.
She and her disabled daughter get a house next to her brother and is no longer potentially homeless - happy her, happy daughter, happy brother.
I get a quality tenant who is likely to stay there for a very long time, a property only empty for one week, and no agent/advertising fees, timewasters.
As Errol said, everyone's a winner
A great shame for me as they were model tenants, and I have to find new people.
The next door neighbour (a 75 year old gent with a terminal illness) rang me as they were moving out to explain his sister, with a disabled daughter, was about to made homeless because her landlord had not been paying the mortgage company, with the rent she'd been paying him.
Not only that but she'd only come back to Birmingham from Blackpool in November last year, to be closer to her family, following the death of her husband. Not a good place to be at 59.
After going to see her to gather some information, I spoke to the solicitors in charge of the repossession, who confirmed that they were acting on behalf of Northern Rock, and further confirmed that she was a tenant and not in any way involved in the repossession.
I also spoke to the local Neighbourhood Office to confirm that she had presented herself to them as about to be made homeless - again, this checked out.
Long story short - she takes up her tenancy this weekend.
She and her disabled daughter get a house next to her brother and is no longer potentially homeless - happy her, happy daughter, happy brother.
I get a quality tenant who is likely to stay there for a very long time, a property only empty for one week, and no agent/advertising fees, timewasters.
As Errol said, everyone's a winner
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