Help:my estate agent has told my landlord that we're buying ......

Captain_Mainwaring_2

hafgrape wrote: »

We rented on 2nd Nov 07 so deposit should be protected. Landlord may accept extra but I guess I'm frustrated (furious) that she shouldn't even know that we're buying and that's the estate agents fault, so why should we lose out. I guess it's another cost of buying and greedy estate agents as i'm sure they just told her so that they could then have another slice of the pie when they rent it out again.

Unfortunately, in neither case does the estate agent work for you, possibly they consider that their loyalty lies with the people that pay them, however misguided that may be.

dag_2

I will check re whether we had a S21 I've a horrible feeling....

Even if you have had the Section 21 notice, the landlord would still have to raise a court order before they can actually get the bailiffs around, and that will give you at least another two weeks, probably four. I think it's unlikely that the lettings agency will choose to apply for the court order off their own backs without the telling the landlord about it. So if you're fairly sure that the landlord is happy for you to stay, then I doubt there's much the LA can do about it.

I take it you haven't exchanged the contracts then? I can imagine the vendor trying to play off the completion date against the price - that is, later completion means lower price, and earlier completion means higher price. Is there any risk of this happening?

You've got a good survey and a low price, but if there's any other reason to hold back from buying the house that you haven't already mentioned, then I still wouldn't want you to be pushed into it. Keep us informed, thanks.

Captain_Mainwaring_2

dag wrote: »

Even if you have had the Section 21 notice, the landlord would still have to raise a court order before they can actually get the bailiffs around, and that will give you at least another two weeks, probably four. I think it's unlikely that the lettings agency will choose to apply for the court order off their own backs without the telling the landlord about it. So if you're fairly sure that the landlord is happy for you to stay, then I doubt there's much the LA can do about it.

I take it you haven't exchanged the contracts then? I can imagine the vendor trying to play off the completion date against the price - that is, later completion means lower price, and earlier completion means higher price. Is there any risk of this happening?

You've got a good survey and a low price, but if there's any other reason to hold back from buying the house that you haven't already mentioned, then I still wouldn't want you to be pushed into it. Keep us informed, thanks.

Are you seriously suggesting that the OP forces the LL to evict them because the LL wants the to extend the contract to January, because you may well find that the same agent who cannot keep their mouth shut will also tell the vendor that the potential purchaser may well be a pain the the bum and not be worth while bothering with.

In any case what a crap atttude to take, if you cannot come to an arrangement for a rolling tenancy, then leave graciously, don't be a complete !!!!.

franklee

RabbitMad wrote: »

Also unless the deposit was already protected when the section 21 was issued, the section 21 should be unenforceable hence the "Sword of Damocles" approach that LL's used to try no longer works.

Course the Sword of Damocles method of serving the S21 still works. The landlord should protect the deposit within 14 days of receipt so that still leaves plenty of time to serve a S21 early on in the tenancy but after the deposit had been protected There is more chance the tenant will notice it, but still plenty of wriggle room for the landlord to imply not to worry it's just routine ...

The Sword of Damocles just means that the landlord served the S21 when he doesn't yet know he wants the tenant to leave on it's expiry so that he has dispensed with the need for notice later on should he later decide he wants the tenant to leave. The SoD refers to the tenant either living not realising notice was served or being left in uncertainty and living without the right to notice as the notice has already been served yet the tenant does not know if it was meant.