Serviced notice pursuant to section 21 of the housing act!

evoke

tbs624 wrote: »

Do you spend a lot of time alone Evoke?

I guess if you were a spider, the female would leave you alone: the evident bitterness probably makes you rather unpalatable.

No, I just don't spend a lot of time with pregnant women. And thanks for the compliments. Water off a duck's back, mate.

franklee

digitalphase wrote: »

So, should we sign this form thing to say that we agree to end the tenancy in April? We had better I suppose as we certainly don't want to be tied into living here for another year :eek:

Now I'm getting confused as I thought the landlord had served you with notice? If that's the case then it doesn't need your signature to be valid but often a second copy is sent for the tenant to sign and return to acknowledge receipt of the notice. This is to avoid any arguments of if and when the notice was served. Is that what you've got or is the letter asking you to serve notice?

Maybe if you post the start and end dates of the fixed term, the wording of the landlord's and tenant's break clauses and the wording of the notice letter you got hopefully you'd get a better idea of where you are as atm we don't really know what you've been given.

digitalphase

Eton_Rifle wrote: »

Yes I did read your post, perhaps you should have done too as these words are those to which I addressed my replies.

You say you want to leave but you want to do it on your terms, right?
That's the situation I'm advising you on, if you only had the good grace to listen to people who know more than you, who have been in your situation many times and are trying to help you.

So, despite your incredibly rude and charmless replies, I'm still trying to help you by telling you that you should have and possibly still can, negotiate for an appropriate end-date to your lease since you have known for several months that this will be a vulnerable and inconvenient time for you.

I did read my post, you clearly did not or you wouldn't have put such carp as 'planning ahead' and that you 'negotiated to stay for longer' in your house. We do NOT want to stay any longer than necessary, however I was asking for advise on where we stood legally after we had been served notice. I have had some helpful replies in amongst the carp that has been posted by several users, and am now aware of a way to possibly get an extra 6 weeks tenancy due to the fact that I am due around the time that the tenancy ends.

Whatever evoke or other users feel, me mentioning I am pregnant bares relevance to the thread. It is relevant because I am due about 2 weeks after the tenancy ends, and anyone who has experience of pregnancy will know that babies could come two weeks before or after their due date. Of course I have know I am pregnant for a long time, as have the estate agents etc, but nothing could be done until this point as we simply are not in a position to move until we are near the end of our tenancy. I do not understand why you fail to see this, and keep harping on about 'planning ahead'.

Obviously evoke and tiny tears are very sad little people with nothing better to do than to write trash on other people's threads. I have read some other posts by evoke and you really are the kind of person I'd love to meet in real life, as I bet you are very different away from the safety and anonymity of an internet forum

franklee wrote: »

Now I'm getting confused as I thought the landlord had served you with notice? If that's the case then it doesn't need your signature to be valid but often a second copy is sent for the tenant to sign and return to acknowledge receipt of the notice. This is to avoid any arguments of if and when the notice was served. Is that what you've got or is the letter asking you to serve notice?

Maybe if you post the start and end dates of the fixed term, the wording of the landlord's and tenant's break clauses and the wording of the notice letter you got hopefully you'd get a better idea of where you are as atm we don't really know what you've been given.

Thanks franklee. It requests our signatures for proof that we are in receipt of the letter. It was at the bottom of the letter serving our notice. We got two copies of this letter, and they want us to send back one of them signed. I'd rather not post any more specifics on here to be honest.

silvercar

digitalphase wrote: »

It requests our signatures for proof that we are in receipt of the letter. It was at the bottom of the letter serving our notice. We got two copies of this letter, and they want us to send back one of them signed. I'd rather not post any more specifics on here to be honest.

The fact they have sent two copies of the letter is just to make life easier for themselves. They will have got proof of posting. By signing and returning it just means they know that you know that they know you received the letter. Without it, it will still be deemed to have been served to you.

Don't sign if you don't want to.

digitalphase

silvercar wrote: »

The fact they have sent two copies of the letter is just to make life easier for themselves. They will have got proof of posting. By signing and returning it just means they know that you know that they know you received the letter. Without it, it will still be deemed to have been served to you.

Don't sign if you don't want to.

OK thanks. One was sent by hand (presumably by the estate administrator) and the other by normal post, not recorded/signed for or anything.

SusanC_2

Eton_Rifle wrote: »

I have negotiated for longer contracts immediately I discovered we were expecting another child and signed new contracts immediately - to follow on from the current one if it can't be directly replaced.

I don't leave it all until the last minute and bury my head in the sand.
Leaving it all to the last minute is neither a legal requirement not a sensible one in these circumstances.

That's why this has never happened to me, luck has nothing to do with it.

Leaving aside the OP's specific circumstances, it is not always possible to do what you suggest. We found out I was pregnant with our first child 14 months into our tenancy. Six months earlier when the initial agreement ran out, we asked for a longer term agreement but the landlord would only agree to a periodic tenancy. Yes it is a good idea to do what you suggest if circumstances allow it but it is not always possible.