Your tenants stop paying rental, but stubbornly refuse to vacate whilst you must keep on shelling out for bond instalments, rates, repairs and municipal services. The temptation grows - cut off their electricity and water, stop them freeloading off you, get them out so you can re-let to better tenants.
Many a landlord is tempted to go the “self-help” route when non-paying tenants refuse to pay up and also refuse to leave. Holding costs mount with not a cent in rental income to show for it, the landlord gets desperate and locks are changed, access codes blocked, electricity and water cut off.
But what if, instead of meekly packing up and vacating, the tenant rushes off to court? As we shall see from our discussion of a recent High Court decision below, now the landlord has a real problem, regardless of whether or not the tenant has lost its legal right of occupation.
You cannot take the law into your own hands
Lessons for landlords
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