Tenant with no verbal or written contract

[Unregistered]

Could you please tell me my rights with this issue.
Previous owner now deceased left an apartment in the will. However the owner had a unpaying lodger staying there with them and now the lodger claims to have rights to stay there. I also come over on holiday and have to stay there with this person. How can i get the person out if i can't change the locks or cut off the utilities

[Lawbird Lawyer]

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 LarraÃ*n Nesbitt