Need advice on tenancy termination please

BitterAndTwisted

If they are determined to enforce that S21 how quickly they could apply to the court to enforce it is entirely dependent on how busy the courts are. Of course, even if they get a court date they would still have to go back to court to have bailiffs appointed to remove you if you were unwilling to leave. That could take months.

You really, REALLY need to clarify what the landlord's intentions are. No sensible landlord would seek to get shot of good tenants who look after the property and pay their rent in full and on time only to risk a void between tenancies. Which you could probably ensure if you had a mind to.

jjlandlord

Baker89 wrote: »

But if we stayed a further 4-5 days as per them wanting possession after the 14th of February, we'd have to pay the rent on the 10th of February which would mean we'd paid another month but for only 4-5 days of living there so they'd then owe us money.

If you were to agree with landlord to vacate and end tenancy on the 14th Feb. (you want to have that in writing and ideally execute a Deed of Surrender on the 14th Feb.) obviously you would only pay rent for the period 10th to 14th Feb.

Baker89

Well I've emailed the agency now saying we would consider signing up for a further 6 months and am just waiting to hear back from them.

It's true what you say though that no sensible landlord would seek to get shot of good tenants, but this landlord has nothing to with us as tenants, everything MUST go through the agency, we've never met or seen them in the last 10 months we've been here (that of course is entirely up to them) but I suspect that it's because we've been such good tenants, paying the rent on time and reporting ALL repairs that need doing in good time and in the proper manner that's potentially peed the landlord off! It appears he'd prefer tenants that didn't report everything that needed doing as long as he gets his money every month.

This has nothing to do with it (I think?) but he's of the Asian persuasion (don't worry I'm not labelling him) but it appears/seems to me he's rather prejudiced against any/all tenants he's got and because we follow up everything to the letter ie. repairs he doesn't like it as he has to part with some of his hard earned money (when I say hard earned money I mean the rent he's waiting for whilst being sat on his backside waiting for it to appear in his bank account type of hard earned money) so it seems he'd rather turf out all tenants after the fixed term expires and get some new tenants until he's satisfied they'll not report repairs and generally keep it in a poor state of repair..

I also think the agency staff talk a load of rubbish as well, saying before we moved in that he's a nice man and a decent fellow and he wants long term tenants and other such crap just to get us signed up! Won't fall for that again in a hurry..

I mean the man gets almost £3000 every 6 months in rent, before taking off the 10% the agency no doubt gets.