Dear Sir/Madam,

Verbal tenancies are just valid in Spain as a written one. I notice you refer to this person as a tenant and not as a squatter meaning that at some point they were paying a rental fee.

Even if they are a non-paying tenant you must have them formally evicted. you cannot lock them out, change the locks or shut off the utilities.

Besides, you are not the landord, only a beneficiary that still has to talke ownership of the property.

Please read our article:

How to Evict a Tenant who is not Paying the Rent - 17th December 2007

Yours faithfully,
Raymundo LarraĆ*n Nesbitt