Landlord selling house and I'm 6 mths pregnant

silvercar

At least now we have a nice home for the next year and the baby will be a year old before we have to face moving again.

I'm pleased it has worked out for you, albeit not quite on the terms you were expecting.

Good luck for the move and the birth.

abby1234519

EastMidsGal wrote: »

Well I got the house I wanted, but when I went to sign the contract on Friday I noticed the agent had put down different terms to what we had agreed on the phone, with my baby due any day now there was no time to renegotiate I just want to move and be as settled as I can be before the baby comes. I now know I definitely need a c-section which gives a six week recovery period and I didn't want to stay where I am with the current agents evicting me through the courts while I am recovering from major abdominal surgery and looking after a newborn baby.

I move on Monday and the operation is on Thursday unless I go into labour naturally before hand in which case it will be performed earlier but doesn't look like I will thankfully.

I had agreed with the agent on a two year contract, but when I signed the contract she has put down a 1 year AST saying they may extend for a second year and there shall be an increase of at least 3% but not more than 8%, which would take the monthly rent back up to what it was before we negotiated it in the first place as it was too high for me. So I doubt I will be living there for longer than a year, I feel rather cheated as it was NOT at all what we agreed weeks ago, but right now I am not in a position to argue about it. At least now we have a nice home for the next year and the baby will be a year old before we have to face moving again.

I'm glad you've got somewhere at least for a year. I signed for a house yesterday, the rents about £100 more than the local housing allowance (as it stands at the moment) but I can make that up with student finance luckily.

I hope you have no complications and can rest once the baby is born xx

EastMidsGal

Sorry to resurrect this but I was thinking about it last night at silly o'clock and thought I would re-read it.

I can't believe how different things are now, looking back at all that stress. I have the most amazing son now who is 7 months and we're all feeling very settled, so I am hoping the clause in the tenancy agreement was just the letting agents keeping their options open and it will be negotiable, hopefully to the same terms we agreed on the phone this April and we won't have to move

My son's father is now getting involved, paying maintenance and taking steps to build a relationship with our son, how that will pan out later on when he wants unsupervised contact I don't know, I shall wait and see, but he has taken a lot of steps to regain my trust and seems fully committed, it just depends on whether he has his temper under control now

Too many people helped me both practically and emotionally in this thread to thank individually, I hope everyone who replied sees this update because I really want to thank you so very much for all the time you took to help me

I never thought this particular sub-board would be the place for sentimentality, but maybe some of the pregnancy hormones are still floating around!

How are the other ladies doing now who posted here and were pregnant at the time?

Well, that's it really, just wanted to say you're all jolly fantastic and reading it back last night even the trolls made me giggle! Thanks so, so much

silvercar

Glad it worked out for you.

Thanks for posting back, its nice to know the outcome.