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Landlord took our garden
ss3n08
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About a month before the end of our tenancy our landlord took half our garden and our garden shed and told us that we had two days to get our stuff out before they put a fence up. We were still paying the same rent for the last month. I agreed to it at the time (verbally) because I didn' treally know what I was agreeing to, can we do anyhting about this?
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Do we not have any rights as a tennant paying for the use of the house and the garden?0
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go over and post your question on landlord zone - you'll get a definitive answer there0
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MadnessOfHPC wrote: »Who owns the garden? Your landlord, so he can do as he pleases.
The landlord owns the house, so he can cut it in half and do as he pleases? :rotfl:0 -
Do we not have any rights as a tennant paying for the use of the house and the garden?
yes you do have rights. if you rented the property with a garden and a shed then you are entited to have sole use of this . your landlord is in the wrong and this is no different than if he turned up and told you he wanted to use the bedroom and you had to get out.
contact the public housing officer at the local authority they will help you and advise what you can do.0 -
Sorry, I'm confused. I thought you have been renting a house from your Mum for past 23 years and asking advice on how to buy it from her ?
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2731667Inside this body lays one of a skinny woman
but I can usually shut her up with chocolate!
When I thank a post in a thread I've not posted in,
it means that I agree with that post and have nothing further to add.
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MadnessOfHPC wrote: »No they don't have any rights whatsoever as I doubt anything mentions the garden or shed in their agreement. As I said it's the landlord who is the owner so can do as he wishes.[/QUOTE
we will agree to differ shall we, but in the cases i have dealt with the garden has been part and parcel of the tenancy agreement whether mentioned or not and the landlord could not simply take it back when they felt like it.0 -
MadnessOfHPC wrote: »No they don't have any rights whatsoever as I doubt anything mentions the garden or shed in their agreement. As I said it's the landlord who is the owner so can do as he wishes.
This is completely wrong...
As tenants you have the right to exclusive occupancy of the entire property. Tell the landlord to get lost.
MadnessofHPC, the property is nolonger the landlords once it's let out!0 -
If you are shown around a property with a garden, and nothing in the agreement or verbally is said about it, it would be fair to say that use of the garden (and shed) is implied as part of the contract. I don't see how any right minded individual could disagree with that?0
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About a month before the end of our tenancy our landlord took half our garden and our garden shed and told us that we had two days to get our stuff out before they put a fence up. We were still paying the same rent for the last month. I agreed to it at the time (verbally) because I didn' treally know what I was agreeing to, can we do anyhting about this?
Here is how it works.
You rent a property based on what is in the tenancy agreement.
Normally this will be an address, ie the property known as 5 Smith Road. It is possible that the tenancy agreement might say building x at 5 Smith road and excluding the land at the rear of the property, but this is unlikely.
If you rent the address than that includes the gardens that make up the address (as provided on either the title deeds, or, more likely today, the Land Registry plans.
Therefore, provided you rent the whole property the LL had no right to do what they did.
However, you did agree that they could do it and since it occurred in the last month of your tenancy you did not suffer any quantifiable loss so while what your LL did was legally wrong, there really is nothing you can do about it.
I hope that's clear.0 -
Don't listen to madnessofhpc, he's on a mission to prove anything but buying your own house is tantamount to disaster.
Like the guy above says, you rent an adress, and all that comes with that adress.0
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