Toulouse: the tenants, bad payers, had kept the keys
After starting a lease termination procedure. Three months later, he finally gets the keys.
It’s the end of a long fight. Hervé must finally recover the keys to his house in Eaunes, near Toulouse. He had been waiting for this moment for several weeks, the date of the departure of his former tenants. After months of unpaid rents, the landlord had initiated an end-of-lease procedure. But the tenants have gone before. Discreetly. “I still don’t know the reason for their departure,” says Hervé.
In the middle of August, the occupants leave the accommodation without giving any news. The 44-year-old man wishes to carry out the exit inventory in order to recover the keys. Its former tenants are making more appointments, without ever going there. But if there are any things left from the old tenants in the house, I would end up in jail. The law is not on the owners’ side. It protects bad payers, ”criticizes the owner.
This Tuesday, November 23 in the evening, after being contacted by “La Dépêche du Midi”, the couple said they wanted to return the keys of the accommodation to their former owner in the evening. “He was threatening by SMS, we were afraid to meet him,” he argues.
“I will sell my property”
The story took root in 2019. Hervé had a house built in order to rent it out. He rents it to a couple “who presented well”, according to him. But from the first months, the payment was made “dotted”. “Quickly, the months of unpaid rents accumulated”, testifies Hervé.
This gruesome situation led him to request the termination of the lease, which he obtained. If the owner must finally recover the keys to his house, he still has some scars. Her house will never be available for renting again. “When you take such a slap, you change. We realize that we are alone and that the law will not help us. I am afraid of falling on tenants as crooks as the last ”.
His house is now for sale. It has been several weeks since he planted a sign in front to indicate it. However, future buyers could not visit the property because of the former tenants, who still held the keys.