I really should be doing some housework

I can't believe how time has flown and we are now in November, since I first posted about my toxic tenant.

Its a Sunday afternoon and after a hectic working week I really should be catching up on some housework.

I am pleased to say I have been paid my rent arrears in full!! All £1500 of it!

I didn't really do anything special to get it back. It was more luck than skill. I never got around to evicting her mainly because I had a few major crisis to deal with in the family that took my focus away from things and made me depressed for a while.

Anyway things have moved on since then and my tenant served notice to move out in October as she planned to leave without clearing her arrears. The gods were definitely with me because the letting agent who my tenant was dealing with found out about the arrears and wouldn't let my tenant have the new house so my tenant decided she would stay with me after all. My exact words were 'you've got to be joking' and so she went to the council to be rehoused.

Council told her they would only help her if she cleared her arrears first, so she did. All £1500 of it in a matter of 10 days. Amazing.

All I have to do now is get an eviction order and then council will help her. I am using the s21 ground so it won't be fault based as I know I'll definitely get the house back then.

I emailed council and put them on notice that as they had advised tenant to stay put until I get an eviction order I was now holding them liable for any damage to the house.

Tenant has been causing a few probs with getting access to get a leak sorted out and Andy Roberts another investor from the forum helped me out with it as he lives in the area. (Thanks Andy!)

Council are paying me the rent direct so at least I'll get paid now until I get her out. She really does have a very bad attitude but in a way I should be thanking her as I have now learned how to deal with low life.

I won't be feeling sorry for anybody else now who give me a sob story about how they have young children to look after and need somewhere to live. Its my fault really as I should not have felt sorry for her and I won't be doing that again without covering my own back first. I'm usually really good at covering my own back so there's another lesson I have now learned.

This particular tenant already owned a house with her ex husband but they had split up as she said he was getting on her nerves and she was desperate to live on her own. These women are so lucky the govt takes care of them and pays their rent and under the old govt gave them a free council house which is more than what I was ever given.

When I was homeless 10 yrs ago with a very sick young child, the govt wouldn't help us at all and we were left to fend for ourselves. I have never been able to work that one out.
This was despite having no friends, no family, no money, no job, no home and no medical care (we had moved abroad a few months earlier so my son could get some specialist medical treatment but we had lost everything by then so I ended up having to treat him myself). No council house for us and no support from the govt. Everything I have, I have worked for. I just wanted somewhere to put a roof over our heads at the time so we could just rest for a little while. At least I can now genuinely say with great pride, I did it all on my own!

I really must send the papers off to the court to get the eviction order and do some hoovering.
I'll do it some time this week.....including the hoovering.