An E-Petition on www.number10.gov.uk, the official website of the Prime Minister's Office, which pleaded ‘give more rights to landlords to evict bad tenants’ attracted less than 20 signatures.
The petition submitted by Asif Mirza said: “There are many good tenants but occasionally you come across a tenant who deliberately rents a property then stops paying any rent.
“The legal system to evict bad tenants is a farce. Taking months to get the eviction (sic). Us landlords take a lot of stick because people assume we are ‘loaded’ but most of us are just hardworking people trying to improve our futures.
“From start to finish it should take no longer than six weeks to get the tenants out. The employment of private bailiffs should be allowed. The councils should take more responsibility for them but they adopt this attitude that its not their problem, they don’t have to find them anywhere to live until they get a bailiffs eviction date and then they'll re-house them on the morning of the eviction.
“The law is a farce and we the landlords need some rights too.”
The deadline to sign up to the petition was 24 January 2009.
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