Landlord being unfair and unlawful?

Meatballs

The S21 notice with the added information about being able to stay could potentially invalidate it, although you would have to speak with a property law expert, as it is just a hunch of mine.

Imani

tbs624 wrote: »

If it is the LL who needs you to move out, eg. for "safety reasons", rather than you saying you don't want the disruption, then they *should* pay for the temp accommodation.

On your own part, have you been difficult with the LL over the arrangements for the work to be done? It is actually possible to stay in a property whilst CH is installed in just 4 days, even with small kids in the family,by restricting yourselves to a couple of rooms , getting out and about during the day and asking the workmen to ensure that tools are safely stored and floorboards temporarily replaced each evening. It's a pain but the new heating system would presumably benefit you, and even if you owned your own home you have to allow for these things.

You can of course stay put and force the LL to proceed to court to gain possession but you have to balance that against the pressure around Christmas time with a young family. If you are evicted it would be the council's obligation to rehouse you,provided that you had done nothing that could be deemed to qualify as making yourselves "intentionally homeless". The accommodation that you'd get initially would be temporary though and that's no joke with kids.

The letting agent said that it would be too much for the contractor to switch the water supply etc on and off to at the end of each day. our kids are young the youngest not even 1 so using one room no hassle. bucket baths no hassle but no they said it would be too much of a hassle for their worker