Landlord has given us 2 months notice to leave

Gandalfthegrey

dancingfairy wrote: »

trouble is the op now faces the problem of finding a new house and if they can't then they may well need to stay on in the house in order to get social housing - the op is hardly going to make themselves inteionally homeless are they with a young family. It is a difficult situation.
best of luck to the op.
df

Thanks, exactly my point. this post wasnt to find ways of screwing the LL it was to seek advice. We will look for another house but like you said I would be stupid to move out on the 30th march with nowhere to go and 2 young children, that would just be totally irresponsible and very stupid, so I would have no option but to stay put and hope there would be a chance of a council house perhaps.

I have been given some helpful advice here that I am legally allowed to stay put if that situation arises, so thanks, I now know my rights by law, hopefully it wont come to that.

RAS

And given that your landlord had no legal right to bring prospective buyers round your home whilst you were renting, he might need to be a bit more patient. He might have got you to leave and then sat for 6 months trying to get a suitable offer.

ruggedtoast

Theres been a lot on this topic and I wont comment on whats been said already.

Going back to the you OP. We had friends who were in a very similar situation to yourself, the unexpected deadline for their notice to quit roughly coincided with the due date of their first child.

To complicate matters the baby was born some way premature and the dad was almost simultaneously made redundant (his partner was on maternity leave like you).

The redundancy meant they did have the money to move, but what with one thing and another, going back and forth to the hospital and everything else they found themselves a couple of weeks from the deadline but with nowhere to go to.

They had trouble finding somewhere they could afford that would accept kids (as you probably know, cheaper places tend to be flats and landlords of flats generally expect or want to rent to the flat owning landlord’s holy grail – the ‘young professional’).

The place they moved into had a terrible damp and mold problem which had been hidden by the landlord at the viewing. This wasn’t especially compatible with a poorly premature baby with breathing problems. In a demonstration of astounding morality for a letting agent, the letting agent went to the house and looked at the damp problem, then tore up the tenancy and gave them all their deposit and rent money back.

What they should have done then, in my opinion, was parked themselves and their baby outside the councils housing unit and made their problem the councils problem. That would probably have put them on the road to right to buy at some point, even if it wasn’t in the best part of town and at least their rent would have been low.

What they did do was tough it out with private rentals, and renting privately with kids and a low budget is horrible.

And the former, basically is what I think you should do. It’s a shame about your landlords and will no doubt be awkward but if I were you I would just be upfront to them. Tell them you don’t have the money to move and ask them to begin evicting you so you can get council accommodation.

Council accommodation is meant to exist so people who cant afford to rent or buy somewhere privately have somewhere to go. There are plenty of people who arrive here every day who have never paid a penny into our welfare state who take advantage of this, the reason that you’ve been paying taxes all this time isn’t just to subsidise them, its so that you can too if you need to.

Talk to Shelter, and your council housing office, an actual Section 21 may be enough to qualify for council accommodation. I would be surprised if you have to go as far as to wait to be dragged out by bailiffs.

At the end of the day your family is more important than your landlord having to delay his completion date by a couple of months.

Gandalfthegrey

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Theres been a lot on this topic and I wont comment on whats been said already.

Going back to the you OP. We had friends who were in a very similar situation to yourself, the unexpected deadline for their notice to quit roughly coincided with the due date of their first child.

To complicate matters the baby was born some way premature and the dad was almost simultaneously made redundant (his partner was on maternity leave like you).

The redundancy meant they did have the money to move, but what with one thing and another, going back and forth to the hospital and everything else they found themselves a couple of weeks from the deadline but with nowhere to go to.

They had trouble finding somewhere they could afford that would accept kids (as you probably know, cheaper places tend to be flats and landlords of flats generally expect or want to rent to the flat owning landlord’s holy grail – the ‘young professional’).

The place they moved into had a terrible damp and mold problem which had been hidden by the landlord at the viewing. This wasn’t especially compatible with a poorly premature baby with breathing problems. In a demonstration of astounding morality for a letting agent, the letting agent went to the house and looked at the damp problem, then tore up the tenancy and gave them all their deposit and rent money back.

What they should have done then, in my opinion, was parked themselves and their baby outside the councils housing unit and made their problem the councils problem. That would probably have put them on the road to right to buy at some point, even if it wasn’t in the best part of town and at least their rent would have been low.

What they did do was tough it out with private rentals, and renting privately with kids and a low budget is horrible.

And the former, basically is what I think you should do. It’s a shame about your landlords and will no doubt be awkward but if I were you I would just be upfront to them. Tell them you don’t have the money to move and ask them to begin evicting you so you can get council accommodation.

Council accommodation is meant to exist so people who cant afford to rent or buy somewhere privately have somewhere to go. There are plenty of people who arrive here every day who have never paid a penny into our welfare state who take advantage of this, the reason that you’ve been paying taxes all this time isn’t just to subsidise them, its so that you can too if you need to.

Talk to Shelter, and your council housing office, an actual Section 21 may be enough to qualify for council accommodation. I would be surprised if you have to go as far as to wait to be dragged out by bailiffs.

At the end of the day your family is more important than your landlord having to delay his completion date by a couple of months.

Sorry to quote whole post! Thanks for this.
If the LL's evict us through the courts would that be very expensive? (as im sure the money would be deducted from our deposit)

ruggedtoast

Gandalfthegrey wrote: »

Sorry to quote whole post! Thanks for this.
If the LL's evict us through the courts would that be very expensive? (as im sure the money would be deducted from our deposit)

You really need "proper" advice, and that will come from the CAB, Shelter or your council's housing unit.

The deposit is meant to cover damage to the property, cleaning, and unpaid rent.

So as long as you keep paying rent and looking after the property until a court of law says you have to go, as housing law dictates, the landlord shouldnt have a reason to deduct money from your deposit; except possibly for remarketing costs. Which wouldnt seem to apply here.

ruggedtoast

Rainmaker_uk wrote: »

Wow I hope karma catches up with you and the rest of the nasty people on here. The LL has given you notice to leave - as you agreed at the beginning of your tenancy. Why should he have to get legal with you? There are too many people looking to shaft people - you can count yourself as one of these people.

I feel sorry for your situation but you knew the situation when you took the house on with its reduced rate...

Oh for Gods sake. He's talking about waiting a couple of months to move out so he can get a council place, paying rent in the meantime, which is actually what a working low income family deserves for your information.

He's not robbing the landlord blind in the interim.

Self righteous twaddle.

RAS

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Oh for Gods sake. He's talking about waiting a couple of months to move out so he can get a council place, paying rent in the meantime, which is actually what a working low income family deserves for your information.

He's not robbing the landlord blind in the interim.

Self righteous twaddle.

Absolutely, reported to abuse already.

Gwhiz

RAS wrote: »

Absolutely, reported to abuse already.

Not sure if I call that abuse just a difference of opinion. Personal insults is abuse.

RAS

Gwhiz wrote: »

Not sure if I call that abuse just a difference of opinion. Personal insults is abuse.

it appears that abuse agree with me in this case?

paul1964_2

Rainmaker_uk wrote: »

Wow I hope karma catches up with you and the rest of the nasty people on here. The LL has given you notice to leave - as you agreed at the beginning of your tenancy. Why should he have to get legal with you? There are too many people looking to shaft people - you can count yourself as one of these people.

And I hope Kermit catches up with you.


OP: Just ignore ignorant, obnoxious posts like this and use your statutory rights to protect your family. That is what they are there for.