His rental investment turns into a nightmare: 5,000 euros in unpaid and a threatening tenant

Danièle made a rental investment to complete her retirement income. She finds herself today with nearly 5,000 euros in unpaid rents and 2,000 euros in lawyer fees. And with an insolvent tenant still in the place.

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Danièle was far from suspecting that her investment of “good mother” would turn into a nightmare. A dozen years ago, she bought a studio in Auvergne with the money put aside for “A whole working life”in order to rent it and thus have additional retirement income, she explains to Capital. During the first six years, his tenant paid the Ruby rent on the nail. But the company he created in collapsing. “My tenant started by having some delays in payment but her friend always ended up paying the rent for him”relates Danièle. When she leaves it, the unpaids begin. They are today Almost 5,000 euroson the basis of a rent of 435 euros per month. “A rent that I have never increased in six years”regrets Danièle.

Gold “”I always have a credit for this apartment»»worries the owner, who reimbursed the monthly payments for this loan thanks to the perceived rent. For more than a year now, she is doing by drawing from the rest of her savings and thanks to the financial assistance of her mother and sister. “This month, I could not pay the co-ownership charges at once, I asked trustee A payment in three times. I will have to do the same for the property taxotherwise I will not be able to pay it this year “she is sorry. In the same way, it was in five times that she settled her 2,000 euros in fees to the lawyer that she initiated to set up an expulsion procedure for her tenant.

“My ordeal of owner in front of a tenant who no longer pays the rent”

Danièle’s dream, getting rid of her studio

In mid-March, the court rendered a favorable judgment to Danièle. Two weeks later, a justice commissioner meant to the tenant the expulsion orderwhich requires him to leave within two months, at the end of May. The end of the tunnel, finally, for Danièle? Not sure. “By learning this, he sent me a text saying that he was going break everything in the apartment… ”she sighs, dreading to see him refuse to leave the studio at the end of the two-month period.

If this is the case, Danièle will have to ask the prefecture a Expulsion with the assistance of the public force. “My lawyer told me that the prefecture’s response could take at least two months”she breathes, to the end. His obsession? That the accumulation of these deadlines repels the expulsion of his tenant after October 31. It is on this date that the winter trucewhich prohibits rental evictions until March 31. Danièle has only one desire, unrealizable with an insolvent tenant in the square: Selling her property, “rid”.