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That is why they are forced into using heavies rather than the law,
because
the law favours fraudsters and thieves. Anyone who enters into an
agreement
and does not pay, and clearly has no intention of is a thief. If a kid
snatches a bag in the street with £50 in it and pushes over an old lady
over
while doing it, it is headline news. Swindle 10s of thousands and law
backs
them up and allows them to go their merry way.

You are right. Under a shorthold tenancy agreement, the law specifically
states that when this happens this should occur. So, the court should
give
possession if all is in order. Many have not because the tenant has
nowhere
to go, so the landlord is acting as a free homeless centre. The councils,
because of Thatcher stupidly selling off council houses for cheap votes,
don't have the accommodation.

Yet the government/financial institutions is/was encouraging naive people
to
buy to let. Very irresponsible indeed.

For the 3rd time in living history I quite agree with you.


This is encouraging. You are learning.


I forgot to add one more thing: a percentage of tenants have
personality problems that cause assorted horrors for landlords. I know
one that was hauled off by the police because a tenant was involved in
drugs, and its a criminal offence to permit a property to be used for
drugs, even when he had no way of knowing, no powers to enter and
search, no evidence, and it isnt his job to police his tenants anyway.


One a contract is signed, it is not the landlords property anymore, until
the contract expires and the landlord "gains possession" or a court order
gives the property back to the landlord, and only then when he "gains
possession". If a tenant is dealing in drugs from the flat then the
landlord has nothing to do with it, as long as he was not aware that the
flat was to be a dealing house when letting.