With housing squats, it is the other scourge that poisons the lives of owners.
Unpaid rents are rare (2% to 3% of leases, in France, according to unofficial figures) but are traumatic for landlords.
Often more than squats.
In addition to being deprived of their housing, sometimes their only one, the owners can no longer count on the rents which they use, most of the time, to repay their mortgage.
“
One of my clients, whose tenant was no longer paying his rent, saw his accommodation seized by the bank because he could no longer repay his loan
,” says Me Romain Rossi-Landi, a real estate lawyer.
This aberration adds to a long list of anomalies that give the impression that bad-paying tenants are protected at the expense of landlords.
“
We feel helpless, helpless and abandoned by the authorities.
The right of ownership is flouted
”, laments Solange who recovered her property after 9 months but with a hefty bill of 30,000 euros for work.
Proof by facts.
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