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I would direct them to this page.
You (probably) have an AST - the default type of rental contract. It looks like the Landlord must get a court order for you to leave before they can evict you. I expect this would take more than three weeks.
But yeah get a copy of your contract. I am not a lawyer etc. I know someone who is though and can ask for you?
Howard-
I'll ask for a copy of the contract but I reckon it'll be legit - an optional get out after one year was mentioned before we signed up but I can't remember choosing it or not.
Assuming the paperwork is in order, it's more a question of buying just a bit of time and where we stand. As far as I can tell, @Howard is right inthat getting a hearing for an eviction can take a few weeks and I get two weeks to state my side of the case, then even if it goes to court we can expect a couple of weeks to leave at least.
I wondered if anyone had a similar experience of sitting tight and telling the landlord to go fuck themselves for a few weeks, and what the legal ramifications were.
Cheers for that link!
General_Lucifer
Here's a bit of a long winded one:
We rent up here in t'Leeds from a private landlord through a local estate agent and we had a 2 year contract, but the landlord has terminated the contract a year early, saying we had a 'get out clause'.
I can't find any paperwork to say otherwise so I've reluctantly had to agree.
Anyway, they gave us 2 months notice.
Where we live rentals are a red hot commodity, there are very few and the ones that come up are snapped up same day. Prices are high for the area (piddling compared to London!) and we MUST live in a certain area to stay in the school catchment area - it's why we moved here in the first place.
Well, we found a new place. Ace. What's not ace is that our landlord wants us out on 1st July and our new tenancy doesn't start till 1st August.
Not so ace.
We're a family of four, kids are 12 & 10 and I'm fucked if we're living in a tent for 4 weeks.
We've talked to the agents and the place we're moving to is (maybe) allowing us to move in a week early, that leaves us with three weeks.
So I've dug my heels in and said I'm not moving until 21 July.
The question is, where do I stand legally?
She says she needs the house, she's moving back in, so that strengthens her case but is it strong enough to have us lobbed out?
She's single and there's four of us, we've found a house (actively sought alternative accommadation) but we only want three weeks.
You folks seem a savvy lot when it comes to dealing with cunts.
So legally, where do I stand?