When can they throw me out?

BobProperty

wernroe wrote:

Thanks for your comments but I was under the impression this section of the forum is for advice and not judgements.

As opposed to obtaining monetary advantage by deception.

karry1412

I really think that you should at least try to explain to your landlord. He deserves at least that much. You may be suprised.

Alleycat

Basically at this stage, owing three months of rent arrears and not being able to pay anything off it for at least three more months, you could well be out within 6 weeks. 14 days Notice to Quit, the landlord then applies to the courts, then possibly being granted possession in 14 days.

wernroe

clutton wrote:

you are right - i do not know the full facts. You have told us you have not paid the rent for 3 months and do not expect to be able to do so for another 3 months. You expect your landlord to subsidise you for 6 months ............. These appear to be the basic facts.

They only appear to be the basic facts if you haven't bothered to read my posts.

By the end of this month I shall be 3 months in arreas. Just under 4 weeks after this date I will be in a position to pay off 80% of what I owe.

So at a maximum I will be 4 months behind, not 6 as you say. 4 months is certainly not ideal but isn't the figure you made up.

This has all come about because I reported damp to my landlord but he has failed to act on it. I am witholding rent until he does something about it. The council appear to be dragging their feet (and this is not the issue of this thread) so rather that wait any longer, I will be moving out when I am due a large payment soon. This payment will cover getting a new place plus 80% of what I owe.

He'll be getting my forwarding address so he'll get the other 20%.

So as you can see, no freeloading, no deception. It's ok, I won't ask for an apology as some of you have been very helpful and non-judgemental, all I'm asking for is advice on whether I am still likely to be here when the payment comes through.

Apologies for the patronising tone but when people think they know it all and dive in feet-first, I get annoyed.

Alan_M_2

So from saying you can't discuss it with your landlord, to knowingly withholding rent because of a dispute that the landlord must be aware of is a whole different conversation. There are so many holes/contradictions on your "tale" I'm afraid you've lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned.

If you'd have posted about a damp dispute and withholding of funds you'd have got a different conversation altogether, as it is, from your manner and the attitude of your posts I'd hazard a guess that you're your own worst enemy.

rosysparkle

So although you are witholding your rent because of damp (something that you are not strictly entitled to do), you also don't have the money to pay? How fortuitous that you have this damp problem.

First you said you are three months in arrears with rent due on 3rd month, impying that you have failed to pay the rent for 03/11/06 to 02/12/06, 03/12/06 to 02/01/07 and 03/01/07 to 02/02/07. Now you say you won't be three months in arrears until the end of this month - so when is the rent due and which months have you not paid for?

You may have had different advice had you initially said there were repair issues with the property. People can only give advice based on what you post. If you withhold information (as well as rent), the advice may not be applicable to the situation.

Voyager2002

rosysparkle wrote:

So although you are witholding your rent because of damp (something that you are not strictly entitled to do), you also don't have the money to pay? How fortuitous that you have this damp problem.

At one stage of my life I lived in a defective property, and witheld rent because necessary repairs were not made. I took care to deposit all the unpaid rent in a special account, so that I would be able to pay the full amount as soon as the work was done. Of course, I made sure that the landlord was aware of this.

And no, I was not highly-paid at the time. I was unemployed, and for complicated reasons not entitled to JSA, nor to Housing Benefit. Towards the end I was living on an interest-free credit card, yet I made sure that I did not touch the rent money.

(Just for the record, the landlord chose to sell the house rather than to repair it; I got a job in another town and ended up paying about half of the rent arrears, which the landlord accepted as full and final settlement.)

DKLS

Tenants like you are the very reason why I would never ever rent a property out. I wish your landlord luck in getting shut

fishpond

"Thanks for the advice but he is not the sort of person who willingly gives people time"

I wonder why?

going2die_rich

wernroe wrote:

And I'd have broken your legs the moment you approached me

Like I said, it's a good job I'm not your landlord, as your excuses of witholding rent after being a day late wouldn't have washed with me and my legs would be fine, leeches don't scare me

Lets hope your next place doesn't ask for a reference from your current landlord of whether you were a decent tenant or not!