How can insolvent tenants stay in your home?

Justina and Gedas, who left Lithuania, rented their apartment in Vilnius. The tenant Marta settled in the apartment. Then the owners of the apartment did not yet know that it would not be so easy.

« After signing the contract, he was very keen to move into that apartment. He paid the deposit, paid for the first month of the month according to the contract.

The apartment owners signed the contract with the woman last November. When it was time to pay for rent and utilities, it didn’t get any money.

« I told her that I see you won’t pay, move it out and then we’ll talk about how you would cover that debt, but at least the apartment would be free. She kept saying she would move out, but it continues to date, » said the hijacked apartment owner.

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After sharing history in public, the apartment owners received messages from other people as well. It turns out that a woman owes the rent of an apartment to others as well.

« A little later I called her, she never had the handset, only to write twice to the messages. Once wrote that she would call, she wrote the next time she wrote € 100. Never had nothing happened, » said the interview with the apartment owner, whose apartment had previously been captured by Martha.

When she went to the apartment, the woman did not want to talk and ran off the cameras. He later threatened to call the police.

The former man in the apartment told reporters that he had paid all the taxes on the apartment owners.

« There is everything paid, I can bring all the receipts, I can bring the contract that the contract signed since November 7 is signed for a year and everything is paid, » the man said.

However, the above evidence did not bring. Although both times the apartments have been leased by the woman after signing contracts, it turns out to be evicted easily. In this case, it went to court.

« The case is currently in court, just the court also decides the issue of admissibility for a long time. As of April 9, the court has not resolved the issue, » Justina said.

« The court is dealing with such cases for about six months, as it must be given the opportunity to respond to the document submitted, » said lawyer Andrius Lukasonokas.

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The law stipulates that a person living in your apartment must notify about his eviction half a year ago.

« If the tenant does not agree to leave, the landlord has to go to court. The proceedings take about six months, and during the time, if the tenant is not honest, he may abuse legal gaps and remain at the object even before one year after termination, » Lukasonok said.

Even if the insolvent tenant has moved out of the apartment, it can be difficult to withdraw debt from it, sometimes it is impossible.

« There is a large amount of amendments to the law that facilitate the situation for debtors by recovering their debts. My colleagues estimated that debt collection could extend up to 100 years, » said the bailiff Jonas Petrikas.

According to the lawyer, situations of an apartment could be avoided if lease contracts were prepared more closely.

« Even in the case of a written contract, unfortunately, both tenants and landlords often do not decide on the conditions to terminate the contract and then the parties must follow the law, as I mentioned, the six -month period, » the lawyer said.

According to lawyers, such disputes when tenants do not want to move out often arise.