Private Tenants: Helping you to keep your home and where to get advice

Once you have been evicted and the locks have been changed it will be too late to do anything about this. Even if a court order (decree) for eviction has been granted it might still be possible to save your home prior to the locks being changed. 

It may be possible for a solicitor or advisor to lodge a minute for recall of decree. Once this is lodged at the Sheriff Court and served on your landlord it cancels the eviction until the case is reconsidered by the court. If you need to see a solicitor or advisor remember to bring the following paperwork:

• the Court papers served on you,
• proof of your income,
• a recent bank statement, and
• letters from your lender or Sheriff Officer

You will not be able to apply for a minute for recall of decree if you have already defended the case or previously applied for a minute for recall of decree in the same case.

If you have no prospect of saving your home or become homeless, the Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership may have a duty to provide you with temporary or permanent accommodation depending on your circumstances. 

Your local Community Homeless team is listed in the next section and can give more information and help. You can also get independent advice on your legal rights from one of the advice agencies listed in the next section also.