Owning your own home

Nope, but there's no reason she wouldn't.

I was going to ask when I replied with my availability, then everyone in the office said it's not worth the risk in pissing her off as I have no say in her decisions anyway, guess if nothing happens within a month of 2 after the agents have been, I should be safe for a little while...

Wish me luck!

You can get ones that are Defra approved, and I suppose smokeless coal, but burning logs is burning logs, however the Norwegians manage to do it sustainably, but London is London with X million occupants and air quality is an issue. Still I've never worked out the carbon footprint of wood burner in best sustainable mode vs regular gas fired heating.

Could be a divorce or similar with one party buying out the other and needing a valuation for that.

absolutely not, she has had more male friends than I have friends. She lives aboard and every now and again, I'd get a different named male person as my emergency contact. Personally, I think she just wants to sell up and cut ties with the UK... but then she does come back and still uses the NHS... in fact, she is registered with the same GP as myself... She tells me a lot of things I really do not care nor want to know...

You're mixing things a bit.

Sustainable is about not diminishing the fuel source, fossil fuels are not sustainable because we can't replace them as quickly as we use them. We can with wood, especially fast growing soft woods like pine. Sustainability does not affect air quality.

Cleanliness and pollution is about how much crap goes into the atmosphere. This affects air quality.

Yeah, this bugs me too. People use the word 'sustainable' in the sense that destroying the planet wouldn't be good for 'sustaining' continued human occupation, which is just confusing

FWIW current policy is designed to nudge wavering / accidental landlords in to selling their property.

As I understand it, she could sell it as 'tenanted' - with you still in it! - and then leave the rest up to the next owner, but that would come at a cost to her as she would only be selling to the landlord market.

Oh I can't be sold. Issue I have is that the rent I pay at the min is dirt cheap, like real cheap... so... I won't be sold with the flat as nobody in their right mind would charge me that little... not saying my landlady is mad or anything, but I practically manage the flat for her...

Just keeping my fingers and toes crossed that nothing changes for another year or so so I can get my buying sorted....

Sure - hope it turns out to be nothing serious.

but if she is selling, I could in theory stay until the contract is exchanged, no? I know from the date of sale agreed, it could take up to 10-12 weeks for all the paperwork to go through?

You can stay for as long as your tenancy agreement says you can stay. What is your notice period?

^ what he said

Which is why some properties are sold tenanted - not because the owner wanted to , but because they had to. Generally this means the property is sold at a discount.

notice period is 1 month, I have been here for 8 years now, so it is just 1 month from either party

I'm afraid that is all your landlord needs to adhere to. Although as you say, there should be no reason why she wouldn't want you there until the last minute if she is selling.

By law she has to give you 2 months notice no matter what the contract says. But this assumes you are in the UK

Maybe you haven't a contract worth the paper it's written on and are a sitting tenant.

What ^^ @DaveH sez.

It's 1 period (a month if you pay monthly) from you, 2 from the landlord and worth noting that period has to begin on the day you pay the rent, so if you pay on the 13th and get notice on the 14th you get nearer 3 months as the notice doesn't start until the following 13th.

Since 1st October 2015 the requirement that a section 21(4) notice must expire on the last day of a rental period doesn't apply in England (it's still the case if the premises are in Wales) courtesy of section 21(4ZA) of the Housing Act 1988, introduced into the 1988 Act by section 35 of the Deregulation Act 2015. I would get my coat, but I don't get out enough to need one...

Yeah. Wales. I was on about Wales.

I guess the moral of this story, given that we were all slightly wrong, is don't ask people in the miscellaneous section of a cycling forum important questions.

In that case you're bang on, boyo. Lush.

Can we even trust @danstuff ?

What he says sounds fancy enough to be believable, but since ISTR he's a nail technician by trade he could just be guessing.

Maybe if he posts a picture of himself holding a fish we could trust in his bona fides?

Ah, but if I'm a nail technician then the chances are I'm not an expert on the law*. Which would mean I am supremely qualified to lecture everyone on it. Apparently. These days.

'* I acknowledge that there is no reason in principle why a nail technician couldn't be a demon lawyer, but I've never met one** who is.
** AFAIK I've never met a nail technician. Damn my metropolitan eliteness.