Benefit Cap, Rent Shortfalls, Council Discretionary Housing Payments, Landlords, And Eviction (Part 1)

A living nightmare

“In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.”

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

I rent in Britain/England.

I have rented for over 25 years and in that time I have never had what I would call a decent Landlord. They may well at home be loving and understanding decent individuals but my contact with them has been on a scale from appalling to just tolerable.

I have had to hold a candle to the devil on many occasions or I would have been evicted. On the odd occasion when I could not hold the candle to the face of the devil and I let my thoughts out, I had in response a Section 21 Eviction Notice. These are Notices that require NO evidence for a ‘successful’ eviction.

In one case I had made my Landlord — a 65-year-old worldly, educated, man who had built his own home— feel like a ‘child’. I know laughable. It was over items left outside the internal landing adjacent to my flat. They did not belong to me and I told him in short shrift exactly that. I did not swear. Just put him in his place. And he did not like it so he reacted by attempting to evict me.