Hi
I need some advice about the best way to evict a really bad tenant.
It all started a few days ago when it was raining heavy and i noticed water coming into a first floor flat so I gathered it must be a leaky roof and there is another flat above where there is a current tenant.
So i gave the tenant in the top flat notice that a roofer is going to have to come out and inspect the roof as water is coming into the property and it will eventually affect the commercial premises also on the ground floor.
I went up the next day as I had not had a reply. Rang the tenant first and had no answer so knocked his door. He came out shouting and screaming and i was in total shock next thing I knew I had been thrown down two flights of stairs and he had started punching me and strangling me at the bottom. I finally managed to escape and the police were called.
It turned out he did not want me or the roofer to go in as he was growing cannabis in one of the rooms.
Police took him away and took the cannabis and equipment. I had to be taken away in an ambulance. Later that day I had a phone call off the tenant once he was bailed saying he was gonna kill me. So i reported this also.
So i thought maybe he will just leave himself. When i went to the property the next time I had discovered that the flat below his that is currently empty had been forced open and some items had been taken. So i also reported this to the police.
I am taking the tenant to court for GBH and the police are looking into the breaking and entering and there the obvious case against him about the drugs.
Can i change the locks on the grounds that my property is in danger as he is not letting urgent maintenance works take place? I was also thinking about turning the electric and water supply off.
I don't know what to do really but I need to get rid of this guy as he could had killed me. For a moment when he attacked me I thought he was gonna kill me. I need stitches and had a tooth knocked out and have been off work since the attack.
Please help
Regards
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I need some advice about the best way to evict a really bad tenant.
It all started a few days ago when it was raining heavy and i noticed water coming into a first floor flat so I gathered it must be a leaky roof and there is another flat above where there is a current tenant.
So i gave the tenant in the top flat notice that a roofer is going to have to come out and inspect the roof as water is coming into the property and it will eventually affect the commercial premises also on the ground floor.
I went up the next day as I had not had a reply. Rang the tenant first and had no answer so knocked his door. He came out shouting and screaming and i was in total shock next thing I knew I had been thrown down two flights of stairs and he had started punching me and strangling me at the bottom. I finally managed to escape and the police were called.
It turned out he did not want me or the roofer to go in as he was growing cannabis in one of the rooms.
Police took him away and took the cannabis and equipment. I had to be taken away in an ambulance. Later that day I had a phone call off the tenant once he was bailed saying he was gonna kill me. So i reported this also.
So i thought maybe he will just leave himself. When i went to the property the next time I had discovered that the flat below his that is currently empty had been forced open and some items had been taken. So i also reported this to the police.
I am taking the tenant to court for GBH and the police are looking into the breaking and entering and there the obvious case against him about the drugs.
Can i change the locks on the grounds that my property is in danger as he is not letting urgent maintenance works take place? I was also thinking about turning the electric and water supply off.
I don't know what to do really but I need to get rid of this guy as he could had killed me. For a moment when he attacked me I thought he was gonna kill me. I need stitches and had a tooth knocked out and have been off work since the attack.
Please help
Regards
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