Can we cut off tenant's ESB?

I think that if you read the terms & conditions of your Esb or your fathers ESB agreement available on www.esb.ie, you are not allowed to resell electricity which is in fact what you would be doing if they were paying the bill. By disconnecting the supply you may be stopping illegal activiity on your own behalf
Not true. Think of the old "bed-sit" scenario where coin operated meters were used for gas / electricity on a room-by-room basis off the main house meters.
 
You could also try and get the bailiffs in and seize their goods in lieu of unpaid rent.
 
You could also try and get the bailiffs in and seize their goods in lieu of unpaid rent.
You can't just do that yourself teachai! You need a circuit court order to get the County Sherrif. The court order instructs the sherrif that he has lawful permission to break, enter and seize goods to the value of €x. That process is in train as we speak of course and will take a little more time, but not much.

Hopefully the seizure of their equipment will halt their trading. If the sherrif hesitates I shall be on standby with an angle grinder to gain access for him!

These guys would be better off leaving before the rates bills are issued as they are liable to the council for their own rates. The bills go out in a week or so. They won't get the 12 months out of their rates so they may decide to "do a bunk" in the coming couple of weeks. SDCC will go after them in court for unpaid rates.
 
Need a very specialist "Commercial Lease" legal eagle for this?
An hour or two with the right legal head would probably do wonders.
Commercial leases are totally different from residential.
You have drastically less room with residential, not so with commercial.
With some leases you can take possession of goods, until monies owed are paid up.
And in some cases, may also have the right to sell those goods to recover monies owed.
This makes commercial sense????

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It's curently with the solicitors. The general consensus is that it is imperative to retain "good title" to one's property by ensuring any eviction is legal. Essentially Irish law says the tenant remains a tenant until a judge of the circuit court says they aren't. At that point they may be legally evicted. I've decided not to get stressed about this. We will get posession when we get it. I will then do my level best to make sure these individuals are listed in Stubbs Gazette and I will try to inform any potential landlords to avoid like the plague. One look at our files will make any potential landlord walk away from these people. I just thank God they haven't been there more than 5 years!

The belief of our solicitor is that it's best to appear in the circuit court having done absolutely nothing to prevent the tenant from operating his business and to make sure that all the "bad behaviour" is coming from their side. We are passing the ESB bill on to them and if they don't pay it we will have it disconnected at that stage. Bloodsucking leaches will get their comeuppance soon enough.
 
i would make sure an esb fault develops on the property ;) so that the trip switches keep going and tell them if they complain that you can't afford an electrician to fix it.
 
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