Umm thats not quite what mr rude said

Not some.............More like a Lot.

Trying doing business in Italy. I used to manufacture and import brassware from Italy, so I have a fair experience of their ways.

The ironic thing is that my mother is Northern Italy (Genoe) and she tells me they are a bunch of crooks.
Obviously, you have people all over Europe trying to pull a fast one, but on my experience, the Italians are the worst offenders.

Ah . . . where there's brass there's muck.

I foresee....

Your mother is Northern Italy, she must be pretty big then?

I know, I can't look away...

I haven't gone through the entire thread. Sorry, if any updates in between.

Just here to tell that, this thread changed my view that "All landlords are Cruel. All tenants are sufferers in their hands". May be need to change "Most of the landlords are curel and few of them suffer in the hands of tenants"

I have never had a nonpaying tenant, although one tenant asked to leave early when her mother died and I agreed.

I have had several American tenants in London; on one occasion where there was a guarantor I specifically included a clause acknowledging the jurisdiction of the courts of his American state of domicile.

Under the Brussels Regulation (and I assume the Lugano Convention) the courts of the location of the property have jurisdiction. In principle a Swiss judgment is enforceable everywhere in the EU/EEA/Switzerland.

But it's unlikely to be worthwhile to pursue the tenant unless there is a lot of money involved. Unless you need to do so to collect the deposit from the stakeholder bank.