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Lots of tenancy experts here. I've seen other people in your situation receive good advice there.
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What a cunt your landlord is. I'd be tempted to ask for money to vacate or stay out for as long as you are allowed just to fuck his sale up.
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Unless you're on a fixed term contract expiring on 30 June I'd tell them to piss off as the law isn't on their side. The landlord selling doesn't alter the terms of your tenancy agreement at all. If you're on an AST (fixed contract has expired) that will be two months notice.
They can either sell the property with you still renting, delay the sale, pay you a not insubstantial amount for the inconvenience of agreeing to move out on 30 June.
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@aggi & @Stonehedge Its not a fixed term contract, only a rolling contract since 2012. At the moment, I'm with you on delaying the sale and asking for the Section 21 notice. Thanks for the link, I'm reading through!
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I think it's called a periodic tenancy when your ast expires. You still have bagfuls of rights including more than two weeks notice.
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If the tenancy is a contractual periodic assured shorthold tenancy, the
landlord should follow any notice stipulations set out in the tenancy
agreement. The landlord may need to take legal advice before proceeding.
In the majority of cases in the private rented sector, a periodic tenancy will
be a “statutory periodic tenancy”, i.e. an assured shorthold tenancy that has
run on past its expiry date. In these cases, notices must be given in writing
and must:
• state that possession is required under section 21 of the
Housing Act 1988;
• have a notice period of at least two months; and
• expire on the last day of a period of the tenancy.
For example, if the rent period is from the 11th of the month to the 10th
of the next month, the end of tenancy date in the notice must be the 10th
of the month. If the tenancy is paid weekly the proper notice periods end
in the same way at the end of a period for which rent is paid. For example,
if the rent is paid every Monday for the period through to the following
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^ this @Muppetteer tell em where to shove it.
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Even if you just term your landlord to do one, evicting you will take long enough to fuck their sale plans, and give you long enough to find somewhere else to live.
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@Stonehedge thank you for the link, parts of that are already copy n' pasted into my reply email! And @howard & @TW after a few beers, and plenty of internet reading, I'm taking your advice.
I'll keep you all updated. I'm sure its going to get messy as reading between the lines in the email I've received, the sale is subject to the new owner moving in on the 1st July in two weeks.
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Hopefully this means you'll be able to negotiate a nice big pay off.
Keep us updated. Your situation really boils my piss. If he wants you out, he has to make it worth your while.
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Sticking two fingers up is fairly last resort - perhaps give your landlord a chance to offer something else, before taking the nuclear option. It might save a heap of ballache.
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My landlord's a fucking melt.
Just replied with a really arsey email stating he'll sue for defamation and giving me a landlord registration number that brings up no results, whilst trying to suggest that we brought the fleas with us and making out he's done everything possible despite pointedly telling us to vacate the property on several occasions and suggesting no alternatives to the treatments that haven't worked.
Woke up from 4 hours sleep scratching two new bites on my calf and wanting to place his fucking head between an anvil and a falling satellite.
Apart from spelling out that his solicitor, if he has one, would know defamation would need to be both publicly published and unfounded, and that he's actually done nothing since March and the ex-tenants filth still remains in the loft, I'll be grassing him into the council then calling Environmental Services...
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Got a letter from Cunt Landlord's lawyer (a real one this time, instead of faking forwarded emails containing bullshit) stating that the landlord has behaved entirely reasonably, our claim is without basis and our position is unacceptable but offering £1000 and the non-payment of withheld rent to drop any current or future claims against him.
I've composed a very measured but firm rejection of this listing all the things that are very unreasonable, and why our position is very acceptable having come after giving him four months to resolve the problem. We spoke to the neighbours and having been blamed by the landlord for the problem found out that the ex-tenants (a family of seven with dog and cat in a small 2 bed property) were antisocial neighbours.
As it stands I'd take £3000 to end the tenancy agreement early, representing a full rent refund plus £500 for damaged property, which given we've been unable to fully use or enjoy the property for the duration of the lease is pretty reasonable. Having written a lengthy rebuttal I'm now wondering if I should just get a lawyer to respond but fuck knows where I'll find the money for that. The main thing I'm concerned about is making unsupported statements whilst also wanting to point out there's a considerable amount of bullshit emanating from the landlord's supposed position of acting reasonably.
Oh to have a lawyer in the family.
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Can you make it more concise? Lots of words doesn't equal concise factual statements in this kind of situation.
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I don't think you're going to get much by appealing to their sense of fairness - they work for the landlord after all, they're not neutral.
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Ianal but i believe you don't have to sign anything or move out in two weeks if you don't want to. You have quite a lot of rights in this situation.
I'll post a forum link in a second. You'll get good advice from people who can tell you your actual position.i n the meantime, don't do anything.