Around 18 months back, I rented out a flat in city far away from my current residence (I am northie IT guy in south), to a small family through a broker. Lease was signed for a year but I let them continue without any contractual extension, the next year. They seemed nice and were paying their rent almost on time. I did get occasional reminders and SMSes from electricity board and for apt maintenance which they would clear off with some delay. So far so good.
4 months back, I gave them a notice to vacate the house as I was planning to sell it off, and had a buyer available. The sales process got dragged more than I anticipated. During this time, tenant kept staying in the apt. He seemed to understand the situation and gave his verbal okay to vacate the day I close the deal. He stopped paying the rent, maintenance and electicity bill etc. I didn't ask thinking I would settle once for all, the day he vacates.
He vacated the house last week and moved to another apt in same apt complex but he didn't pay rent for three months, neither did he clear other bills. Since the buyer was rushing to close the deal, I ended up paying for pending bills (mostly maintenance and electricity bills for last few months).
I finally met my tenant in person, who by the way had stopped taking my calls from last month or so. Now this guy gives me his reasons for why he won't pay rent of 3 months and other dues. Actually his wife does. This dude let his wife to do the bullshit talk. A typically randi-rona lady who blabbers shit if you know what I mean.
These are their reasons for not paying:
a) When they got in, they had thought that they could continue to stay in the apartment for at least 3 years. Apparently the broker who brought them in, had told that this apt won't got for sale anytime soon.
b) Shifting to new apt, damaged their refrigerator and AC.
c) Few similar WTF reasons.
They finally agreed to pay the maintenance part and bills, once they have some money in hand in future. Not now. Rent is out of question. Basically I won't get anything.
So my [street] smart r/indians, what is that I can do do teach these guys a lesson from a distant place. All I have is a friend or two there who might spare some time for me. Or shall I just add this to my "lesson learnt" book and forget it?
Submitted January 21, 2016 at 01:25PM by 1dingdong1 http://ift.tt/1ZDxJvc india
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