# Tenant requesting eviction **URL:** \ **Category:** Legal\ **Created:** [10 November 2020 23:47 UTC](https://community.openrent.co.uk/t/tenant-requesting-eviction/17571 "2020-11-10T23:47:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jaimelodonnell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.openrent.co.uk/jaimelodonnell/32/450_2.png) [@Jaimelodonnell](https://community.openrent.co.uk/u/Jaimelodonnell)\ **Post date:** [10 November 2020 23:47 UTC](https://community.openrent.co.uk/t/tenant-requesting-eviction/17571/1 "2020-11-10T23:47:40Z")
Hi all, looking for some advice please. Our tenants of 6 years have during Covid been made redundant and had a baby. They have messaged us today asking us to evict them with the 6 month Covid notice period. I am assuming they are asking to be evicted and effectively made homeless to try and get priority housing from the council. However, as silly/risky as it sounds to me, as a landlord we are all being asked not to evict people during these times if avoidable. So I find myself in a dilemma…do I go ahead and issue a section 21 just saying I want the property back and then sit and wait for 6 months for them to hopefully be rehoused and in the meantime keep paying their rent…or do I refuse and risk them not paying their rent, in which case again they are protected for 6 months accumulating arrears? I asked her to confirm in writing her request to terminate her tenancy (it’s a rolling contract with 2 month either side)…but I am assuming that if she gives notice she forfeits the governments 6 month Covid protection and would therefore have to vacate within the 2 months in the contract? So she won’t do that and is insisting we serve them notice instead. I’m afraid if I go ahead and agree and serve the notice that somewhere down the line if she can’t get a council house and wants to pull out that I will be taken action against for in effect making a family homeless during this crisis and adding to the local authorities burden unnecessarily. Does anyone have suggestions, thoughts or experience of anything similar? Thanks in advance ---
**Author:** ![David122](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.openrent.co.uk/david122/32/1449_2.png) [@David122](https://community.openrent.co.uk/u/David122)\ **Post date:** [11 November 2020 10:32 UTC](https://community.openrent.co.uk/t/tenant-requesting-eviction/17571/2 "2020-11-11T10:32:06Z")
The Council will advise them to stay put until the bailiffs arrive, which if you serve a s21 notice now, is likely to be in about 18 months time. Tell the tenant they should register a claim for UC asap and that you can’t afford to be without rent for 6 months. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.openrent.co.uk/system/32/11_2.png) [@system](https://community.openrent.co.uk/u/system)\ **Post date:** [16 August 2024 01:50 UTC](https://community.openrent.co.uk/t/tenant-requesting-eviction/17571/3 "2024-08-16T01:50:29Z")