Shared Property Nightmare

[joannewatson]

I wonder if there are some legal people on here that could give me some advice and Im sorry its quite long winded.

My friend split up with her boyfriend nearly 2 years ago now. They have a shared mortgage on an apartment and they agreed he could stay there 3 months until he found somewhere to stay. They initially agreed to rent the property out as its in negative equity. However, he left the property almost immediately and took all the furniture. My friend tried all forms of communication to contact him but to no avail. She instructed a solicitor to get his agreement to let out the property but he ignored that also so she went ahead and rented it out. Anyway, he has missed the last 3 mortgage payments and he has not paid his half of the groundrent. Her solicitor has advised there is nothing she can do except take him to court which she said is not worth it due to the cost. She is at her wits end, surely there is something that can be done to force his hand.....sign it over maybe?

[joannewatson]

The rent only covers part of the mortgage and there is then the service charge on top of that so there is still a few hundred pounds a month shortfall which my friend is now having to cover :-/