Rent Arrears- If Your Arrears Remain Unpaid

What will Poole Housing Partnership do if I do not clear my arrears?

If you do not clear your arrears, we will take legal action to recover your debt. This is the last resort, we do not want to evict you if this can be prevented. Our first step will be to serve a Notice of Seeking Possession on you. This is a legal notice telling you that we intend to take legal action if you do not pay your arrears.

The Notice of Seeking Possession is the first step towards losing your home. We will contact you when we serve this notice to discuss your case. If you are not available at home, we will invite you to come into the office for an interview.

If we do ask you to come in for an interview, please do so, we are trying to help you. If you cannot attend the interview date, please contact the Income Recovery Team to arrange another time, please see the contact details to the right of this page.

Also it's worth remembering that if you are in rent arrears:

• You will not be able to transfer to another council property.

• You cannot be transferred to certain housing associations, as they will not take tenants with arrears

• You will not be able to carry out a mutual exchange