Evicting Illegal Sub Tenants

[cassa333]

Just been watching a programme on nightmare tenants and one agent realised that the tenant wasn't paying the rent and had illegally sub let the house. It was now overcrowded and the tenants were not paying rent to the original tenant.

What I wondered is, why was it so difficult to get the sub letting tenants out?

[Jackdaw33]

Does ethnic origin have a part to play in this?

[trt]

I saw this a few days ago, and the agent tried the council as well to get them out, without luck.

One man was living in the small cellar with no electric or window, what if there had been a fire?

[cassa333]

I know. It beggars belief that anyone would actually want to live in a house like that but how come it is so difficult to get rid of them?

[baza]

2 blokes with shaved heads and a big hairy dog seems to work.

[fiction-factory]

Does ethnic origin have anything to do with this?
Well the landlords were Asian? Is that what you meant Jackdaw?

No, of course it was nothing to do with ethnicity. They claimed they had been paying rent to the person who was subletting it. Unless they choose to leave voluntarily I assume you would need some sort of court order. The police can't just throw them out as they will say it is a civil matter I think.

It did show the downside of being a landlord

[Peter Pedant]

Does the subtenant have rights ?
like you have to go thro a court process to get rid of him
good question

certainly on the prog - the sheriffs go in and get everyone out

as in going in and just turfing them out ?
no you cant do that ....

[woofgang]

I think there is also some latitude...I remember watching a program on housing officials from a council who came across this situation...only different in that landlord knew about the sublet (even though he denied all knowledge) IIRC the council decided to allow the situation to be resolved through “wasteage” meaning that they allowed existing tenants to remain but monitored to allow no new ones and no replacements.