Tenant wont move in can i end her tenancy

[theartfullodger]

This house is used as part of an agreement from the local council and because they are renting the house soley, ....

Hang on: Do you have a tenancy agreement (you landlord..) with the council (council tenant,....) and they then let the place to this lady???

I do hope not...

[dazwalsh]

Sounds like you have officially let your house to this lady whilst she pockets the housing benefit and stays at her mums house. If you have both signed the AST then your up shits creek, she is unlikely to sign any end of tenancy form because she then stops getting paid.

Report her to the council for benefit fraud, and issue a section 21 to regain possession.

IF you can get her to sign a form giving you permission to discuss their claim with the council then you have a chance to get paid direct by proving she is in arrears (2 months minimum i believe) but i think this is up to the council discretion whether they will or not. again she is unlikely to agree to signing such a form.

If she simply doesnt want to move in then get your keys back (and change locks to make sure she hasnt made copies), then get her to sign an end of tenancy form which will allow you to rent the house again

[MrJohnnyB]

Sounds like you have officially let your house to this lady whilst she pockets the housing benefit and stays at her mums house. If you have both signed the AST then your up shits creek, she is unlikely to sign any end of tenancy form because she then stops getting paid.

Report her to the council for benefit fraud, and issue a section 21 to regain possession.

IF you can get her to sign a form giving you permission to discuss their claim with the council then you have a chance to get paid direct by proving she is in arrears (2 months minimum i believe) but i think this is up to the council discretion whether they will or not. again she is unlikely to agree to signing such a form.

If she simply doesnt want to move in then get your keys back (and change locks to make sure she hasnt made copies), then get her to sign an end of tenancy form which will allow you to rent the house again

What a load of tripe. All your contentions are based on no fact at all. There is only a contract for a tenancy until such time as a tenant takes occupation. The contractual relationship can only be a contract upon consideration.

[dazwalsh]

If she wont sign any forms for end of tenancy then the landlord has to issue a section 21, you cant just re let the place when there is a tenancy agreement in place surely? if so then i stand corrected.

i would view it the same as abandonment, she could have moved in for one day for all the landlord knows, trying to prove she never moved in at all (especially after issuing keys) would be mighty difficult.