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landlord selling house advice please ??

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  • Gwhiz
    Gwhiz Posts: 2,322 Forumite
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    BitterAndTwisted wrote: »
    I'm sorry, did you say that the agent is sending people round for a viewing and the agent won't be accompanying these strangers? That's bliddy outrageous!

    I'm shocked by this too. Outrageous!!!
  • jelliebeanuk
    jelliebeanuk Posts: 14 Forumite
    yep, they are sending them around and we have to show them around the place going through "our" [well until we move out] cupboards etc...and the one that is coming around doesnt even speak much english:o
  • Gwhiz
    Gwhiz Posts: 2,322 Forumite
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    jelliebeanuk wrote: »
    yep, they are sending them around and we have to show them around the place going through "our" [well until we move out] cupboards etc...and the one that is coming around doesnt even speak much english:o

    Now you can say "they USED to do that" ;)
  • RAS
    RAS Posts: 36,154 Forumite
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    jelliebeanuk wrote: »
    also the landlord and estate agent arent bringing them around they are just sending them...

    What!!!!!!!!!!!!

    How much an hour are they paying you?
    If you've have not made a mistake, you've made nothing
  • jelliebeanuk
    jelliebeanuk Posts: 14 Forumite
    RAS wrote: »
    What!!!!!!!!!!!!

    How much an hour are they paying you?

    you mean to say people actually get paid to show houses :D

    nope, we arent getting paid
  • BitterAndTwisted
    BitterAndTwisted Posts: 22,492 Forumite
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    It was a rhetorical question but to my mind you ruddy-well should be getting paid!

    Decide for yourself what you want to happen and make it so. Negotiate acceptable dates and times or refuse viewings altogether. No-one can force you to accept viewings and you'd be perfectly entitled to change the barrels of the locks to prevent access if you so choose. Please do not lie down and accept the status quo if it doesn't suit you.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    jelliebeanuk wrote: »
    but the fact that they are offering it with a option of vacant possession is the worrying thing....

    also we did not sign a section 21 for the 2nd year lease
    A "section twenty-one"* is a notice to quit at the the end of a tenancy.

    * As relates to s.21 of the Housing Act 1988
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • jelliebeanuk
    jelliebeanuk Posts: 14 Forumite
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    A "section twenty-one"* is a notice to quit at the the end of a tenancy.

    * As relates to s.21 of the Housing Act 1988

    yes, i know what a s.21 is and we only signed one for the first year, they enclosed a copy of that one with the 2nd year lease, so technically it is not correct as it has the wrong dates on...
  • BitterAndTwisted
    BitterAndTwisted Posts: 22,492 Forumite
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    A tenant doesn't have to sign a Section 21 Notice, it just has to be served correctly. This is often a challenge for landlords because they often get the dates wrong so it gets rejected at court. Then the process has to start all over again.

    This particular tenant has a minimum of seven months of "quiet enjoyment" to go yet.
  • jelliebeanuk
    jelliebeanuk Posts: 14 Forumite
    BitterAndTwisted wrote: »
    It was a rhetorical question but to my mind you ruddy-well should be getting paid!

    Decide for yourself what you want to happen and make it so. Negotiate acceptable dates and times or refuse viewings altogether. No-one can force you to accept viewings and you'd be perfectly entitled to change the barrels of the locks to prevent access if you so choose. Please do not lie down and accept the status quo if it doesn't suit you.

    I know it was a rhetorical question but I also know some people do get "compensated" for doing it...

    at the minute trying to get from them why they are advertising it as vacant possession when we are still here until september
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