Thursday 12 January 2017

Declaring War on Beliggerant Tenants and Debtors



Enough is enough!

I have heard enough of tenants that think they can occupy the property of decent folk for free and lazily cite a broken geyser or some maintenance work as their reason for refusal to pay or debtors who have the nerve to criticize the procedures used to get them to answer for their refusal to pay.






As an attorney I have been informed of a lot of legislation protecting the rights of debtors and tenants. The Rental Housing Act and National Credit Act have the following amendments that make the lives of tenants and debtors easier:

1. The removal of doors and changing of locks have been declared unlawful practices;

2. Adverse information on a person's credit record can now only remain on record for 2 years at the most.

That is as if the law as it is does not already afford these scoundrels enough protection!

We now face a breed of debtor that is no longer scared of a letter of demand, who can evade a Sheriff with ease and who can hide his assets in a manner that seems uncanny.

Your average debt collecting agency will simply not cut it in these times.

Although I have not yet found all the solutions we need, experience in debt collecting and aggressive litigation has provided me with knowledge with which to outwit a fair number of these individuals. If we know they have money- I have a way to get it from them!

The days of phoning a debtor who simply switches off his phone the next time are gone. Let me be the one to switch off his phone when a debtor urgently wants to speak to me because the Sheriff is removing his belongings!


As with tenants-

They may enjoy staying for free in a house, using water and electricity at your expense and ignore your complaints as they patiently wait for the eviction proceedings to get finalised, but let's see how they enjoy that stay if the power gets cut in terms of a validly obtained Court Order!

As long as a tenant is earning a salary we can recover at least some of what he owes you. Still- where we cannot recover damages we are in a position to at least limit those damages to a reasonable extent.

To those tenants who start off by saying that they would like to buy the house I have this to say:

Convince me first that you can pay before you talk about buying! Show me that you can obtain the loan if you don't have the cash!


I know a lot of landlords/ landladies in Nelspruit are facing these struggles on their own. Many business persons and entities struggle recovering debts from defaulters who have become adept at avoiding ordinary recovery methods.


Stop struggling alone!

Give me a call!  





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