6th
Oct 2019
A tenant who cowardly fled to Greece owing more than £1000 in rent, brazenly says he will not be “intimidated or bullied” into honouring the debt.
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The former tenant Erik Mikusauskas was a law student at the University of Lincoln, he left the student house he was sharing in West Parade without bothering to let his landlord know, before emigrating to Greece.
The coward spoke to the local newspaper Lincolnshire Live and has no intention of paying back the landlord three months rent that he owes, as he used the £1,000 to “support” himself whilst he found a job in Greece.
He was found out on Facebook after the landlord, who wishes to remain anonymous, published a post asking if anyone knew where he was.
The twenty year old former student did own up to the fact that he had not bothered to inform his landlord of leaving by posting a message to him boasting: “Catch me if you can.”
Mikusauskas told the media: “I mean he [the landlord] tried to expose me because he didn’t believe I have moved and didn’t bother asking me so I memed him.
“If I decided not to pay him there is very little he can do to reclaim the money as my British bank account is empty and I don’t have any property in the UK.
“He can get a CCJ against me, but then again my credit score in the UK doesn’t matter and he’ll only be wasting more money.
“This isn’t an ideal situation but I refuse to be intimidated or bullied into it.”
He condescendingly said: “I do [feel sympathy] obviously but it’s being stuck between a rock and a hard place.
“It’s either I pay him the money I had but I wouldn’t have any more to support myself while I tried to find a new full-time job in a small university city where there aren’t many full-time jobs available.
“Or I go to Greece to have a nice job and a better life.”
The landlord said he only found out about the ex-tenant leaving the country when another tenant in the property told him that Mikusauskas had left the country.
The landlord states he tried to help the tenant as much as he could to help him catch up with the rent.
He said: "I tried to give every chance to catch up – including letting him live for free while he worked.
"He got a job and we were looking to get into the right direction only for him to move to Greece. If he ever came back I would take every legal route possible purely for the principle.
"If he was that nice he could have at least left a tenant completely left me with an empty room so late in the year and not getting rent for a year.
"It is a genuine shame that he has thrown away two years of a law degree over a bit of rent that I tried to give him every chance to catch up on."
Richard Merrick of PIMS, said: "Criminals on the whole are small minded with a feeling of self entitlement and so ironically in this case 'above the law'. The ex-law student tenant has broken a lawful contract.
He added: "Obviously the degree was too far beyond his capabilities and mindset, as we believe he has been working in an Italian chain of restaurants in Greece."
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