Unfair Eviction????

simon4amiee

Good morning, I have a meeting set up with the local Housing Officer and the CAB soon, however some on here may know if the best course of action.

I live in private rented accommodation, I am up to date with rent, and never had any trouble regarding the house. The landlady is also the landlady of a local pub of which I play pool for. However because of a pool match we have fallen out and I am no longer allowed in the pub (politics and long story). Anyway I was in the middle of setting up a pool league which was in association with a charity in a rival pub, I did place posters for this in the window of our rented accommodation. Obviously our landlady was very upset and told us to take them down. I went to the local council for advise on this issue, and they advised she is within her right to ask you to take them down, which I did so on my return home. However while I was in the council I had no idea my landlady was behind me as she had gone into the council offices for another matter. She was furious and as a result issued my with one moths notice stating the reason as unforeseeable circumstances.

The icing on the cake is that because I couldn't go into the pub my wife had to go in and pay the rent this month (27th) and this was 4 hours after she had a tumour removed in hospital so she wasn't very alert. The landlady took the money counted in front of customers and then said she would give us a receipt later as she was doing bingo. When my wife went last night to collect the receipt as we need it to show we have fully paid our rent, she was refused entry to the pub and as I witnessed told to F OFF when we asked for the receipt. I managed to record all this on my mobile camcorder, but she didn't seem bothered at all. I even got pushed away by a punter who obviously gets on well with our landlady.

My wife doesn't work and I would never pass a credit check to get another property, and after 15 months with no problems I'm very worried as to were we are going to live.

N79

LL should have issued you with 2 months notice, not one and the notice must be in writing.

Other than this, the LL is entitled to evict you for any reason she likes provided she follows the correct procedure.

You should start looking for a new property in the near future.

Jowo_2

What does your contract say about notice? Do you have a fixed term or periodic agreement?

As per N79, as long as notice is correctly served, there is no requirement for a landlord to give a reason to serve notice, in the same way that a tenant merely serves notice without having to justify their decision to leave.

Therefore, most of the info you supplied around the relationship problem between you and the issue affordability for the next property is completely irrelevant to your situation. You have been served notice so the only question is whether the landlord has given you the correct notice and how you can find your next property.

The Shelter website is excellent for giving information on your housing rights, the legal process for eviction and how to apply as homeless with the local council,including how your application should be processed.

Have a look at your local council website to see if they offer a deposit guarantee or private landlord referral scheme.

neas

Sounds like you had a big punchup/ heated argument and got banned from pub... then tried to use the landladys house as an advertisement revenue... then tried to see if you could complain about it and get legal advice when your actions were petty.

In all honesty i could see why she wants to evict you.. but she must give you 2 months notice.

Basically the landlord/tenant relationship is now shot. Unfortunately with no receipt to prove it its hard to prove you paid a month if she was to claim it etc.

maninthestreet

If you feel vindictive, take the mobile phone footage to the police and show it to them.