Shameful Tenant Tactics To Avoid Eviction

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Latest update:

Since the Courts recommenced work just over a month ago , our solicitor filed a request to the judge for another eviction date. Remember that the law states that if a tenant is deemed vulnerable by the Social Services (ie. the tenant claimed he hurt his hand and could not work since Aug 2019) the eviction will be suspended for a max of 1 month. Obviously that was several months ago due to the Cov19 virus lockdown and all legal processes that got caught in 'mid-stream' had to be rewound back to the start again.

So we are now awaiting this SCNE body to confirm another eviction date.

We fully expect the tenant to try and delay the process even further by maybe claiming that the Social Services haven't been able to assist him or that he needs more time to find another flat because of the COV19 issues, or that he is self isolating , etc etc.

In the meantime , we have worked out that the tenant owes us over 11k euros in court/lawyer costs and backdated rent (+ incremental yearly rent increase + compounded interest).

We also found (too late now) the email from our last solicitor back in 2016 informing us that the tenants contacted them and offered 40k euros for the flat . Amazing! He didn't pay rent for 10 yrs (ie. 36k euros + interest) and then offered our own unpaid rent to try and buy our property .

So the journey to evict this tenant continues , 4 years on and still counting.

TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE PLANNING TO RENT A PROPERTY IN SPAIN - DON'T DO IT!! ITS NOT WORTH ALL THE HASSLE . BUY PROPERTY IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.

[Humbug]

Just an update for anyone interested :

1. The tenant still remains in our flat and not paid any rent for 2.5 yrs
2. We have processed the eviction request again after the maximum 1 month period that allowed him to get help from the Social Services.
3. SCNE are supposed to confirm an eviction date but have taken 2 months and nothing received yet ( this seems to be a delaying tactic ordered by the State or local government )
4. Meanwhile , the tenant raised another petition to suspend eviction process , claiming vulnerability due to COV-19 .
5. This has been rejected by the court so eviction process continues but have given the tenant 5 days to appeal against their decision.

So this madness goes on and on...........