Unpaid rents: “I already have 1,200 euros in legal costs and my tenant has a free parking!”

After three months of rent unpaid, Jocelyne hoped to quickly take possession of the parking space she had bought to build up an additional income. But the procedure is actually almost as long as in the case of a residential room.

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To build up an additional income, Jocelyne bought a place of parkingmore exactly a boxthat she rents a hundred euros per month. For two years, his tenant acquitted the Ruby rent on the nail. But, for three months, he has not paid. “He is an entrepreneur and he went bankrupt”explains to Capital Jocelyne, who had the end of the story by thereal estate agency Via which she rents her box. The tenant no longer having the means to rent this parking lot, the logic would like him to leave him. But no, he maintains, not a car, but “A shackles of furniture” In this box he uses as a cellar, reports the owner.

Through the agency, she sent him several recommended letters To ask him to regain payment of the rent. In vain: “He is not going to look for the recommended to the post office”is sorry Jocelyne. She has just called a bailiff, who is about to send a command to pay to the tenant. But nothing says that the latter will go to the checkout. Jocelyne is therefore convinced that she will have to hire a lawyer. An additional cost in perspective, which would bring to 3,300 euros the legal costs generated by these unpaid rent, according to his calculations. “It is already more than the 2,400 euros that the rental of this car park brought me in two years. It is not because we have a garage that we are rich! ”Fulminates Jocelyne. Who “does not understand why, in the event of rent unpaid, the procedure to recover your property is almost as long in the case of a parking lot as in that of a apartmentinhabited, him. “

Already 1,200 euros in lawyer fees

Pierre is also distraught. Also the owner of a box, he never saw the color of the first rent of 130 euros that his tenant had to pay him. A tenant who, like that of Jocelyne, does not intend to release the premises. Another similarity, he is not going to seek the recommended letters sent to him to intimate him to pay the rent. Pierre took a lawyer, who asked the court an expulsion command. But “The courts being overwhelmed, I am still waiting for a datehe sighs. I am already at 1,200 euros in lawyers, in addition to the loss of rents not collected, while, for my tenant everything is fine, he has a free garage! ”

Like Jocelyne, he does not understand that the procedure for taking over his box is almost as long as it was an apartment or a house: “It’s just a garage!” “You need a legal proceedings Indeed, but the deadlines are not entirely the same, the indelicate tenant who cannot benefit from the deadlines and provisions relating to the protection of the domicile ”Master Master Cyril Sabatié, lawyer specializing in real estate law. At this stage of the procedure, Pierre judges Pierre judges his situation “Unjust because we are honest and we feel helpless.”

If you too are having difficulties with your owner or your tenant, do not hesitate to testify, anonymously if you wish, to the editorial staff in Capital to Clejoux+temoignages@prismamedia.com.