Helping a tenant who has had a stroke?
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What can I do if my tenant is in hospital and not paying rent?
9:31 AM, 14th July 2025, 9 months ago
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Hi, any advice would be welcome. My tenant has been in hospital for 5 months and is in a bad way. He lives alone, with no family support and is unlikely to work in the near future.
We have been skirting the issue, but have no clue when he could return home, if he could at all. His last rent payment was in February.
We are in a moral dilemma, as if we choose to evict him, there’s no means of him receiving the letter unless we visit the hospital. I assume I can’t walk into the hospital and hand him notice as he is in ICU.
Any advice on what to do would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris
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Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 14/07/2025 – 22:28
I’m a naturally generous person but it is essential that this situation is brought to a close. The landlord has bills to pay, the home could be repossessed by the mortgage provider, the insurance could be invalid, the home could be deteriorating. Who is paying the utility bills?