Hi - we split up nearly 12 months ago and all that time I have been trying to get ex to hand over a set of keys to me from an investment property we bought together. He was the one that managed it, showed tenants round, etc and I never had anything to do with that side of it although I put up the deposit for it. So when he left I had no keys, paperwork etc relating to this property.
Ex has deliberately left the property empty since he left, which means that I am now having to use around half my child maintenance to pay for half the mortgage, frequently all of it if he decides he will not contribute that month. As I have no keys I cannot get a letting agent or estate agent round to either get tenants in or value it to put it on the market.
I think that ex is leaving the property empty just to cause me aggravation as he knows I am very short of money and he is rolling in it so it does not bother him. I can't see any other reason for it.
I have had a solicitor on this since June and he just procrastinates and waffles on about red herrings. Upshot is I am a good few hundred quid poorer from legal fees but with exactly nothing changed. My solicitor advises me not to take this to court as that will be very expensive, but the way things are is just ridiculous. There have been lots of solicitors letters going to and fro but no action whatsoever.
We are also in breach of the mortgage and insurance terms as these need the property to be tenanted, but again I can do nothing at all about it as I have no keys.
Help! What can I do please? Is my solicitor rubbish?
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OhWesternWind · 30/12/2011 18:26
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