Hi,
We have been renting out our former home for the past 5 years without much hassle thankfully. This is largely due to the fact that we have been attentive landlords and been lucky with our tenants.
We are currently 2.5 years into a tenancy with a family. There have been some issues, i.e. changing things in the house without informing/asking us but for the most part uneventful. Everytime something was done outside of agreement we had a conversation with tenants about it and moved on.
It has now come to our attention that they are operating a creche/childminding service out of the house. Aside from the obvious non compliance with H&S, Planning, Fire regs, Child Protection, Tax and Insurance implications, etc, we are pretty annoyed at them for taking the mick. Last year we had the option of upping the rent significantly to bring it in line with market rents in the area but chose to keep it very reasonable as we figured they were ok tenants.
At this point we now would prefer not to have them as tenants as we are feel they are taking a mile when given an inch. It is in the contract that they were not to operate a business from the house and besides that the house is far too small IMO for a creche.
Where do we now stand on this. From what I have read they have breached their side of the contract. Am also concerned about areas such as validity of our insurance should something happen as a result of this business they are running.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
We have been renting out our former home for the past 5 years without much hassle thankfully. This is largely due to the fact that we have been attentive landlords and been lucky with our tenants.
We are currently 2.5 years into a tenancy with a family. There have been some issues, i.e. changing things in the house without informing/asking us but for the most part uneventful. Everytime something was done outside of agreement we had a conversation with tenants about it and moved on.
It has now come to our attention that they are operating a creche/childminding service out of the house. Aside from the obvious non compliance with H&S, Planning, Fire regs, Child Protection, Tax and Insurance implications, etc, we are pretty annoyed at them for taking the mick. Last year we had the option of upping the rent significantly to bring it in line with market rents in the area but chose to keep it very reasonable as we figured they were ok tenants.
At this point we now would prefer not to have them as tenants as we are feel they are taking a mile when given an inch. It is in the contract that they were not to operate a business from the house and besides that the house is far too small IMO for a creche.
Where do we now stand on this. From what I have read they have breached their side of the contract. Am also concerned about areas such as validity of our insurance should something happen as a result of this business they are running.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.