Renting and job being relocated - dilemma

sussexchick

Tottyshouse wrote: »

You can threaten the landlord re losing money if you are "forced" onto housing benefit, He can of course take you to court for any short fall and you would either end up having to pay up plus court fees or end up with a ccj. Neither is ideal. Also if you are in a joint tenancy you are both liable for the rent so the tenant with a job could end up with an attachment of earnings if needs be. Also until the day the tenancy ends it is the tenant who is responsbile for the property. The landlord has no right to enter the property and rightly so. If anything happened to the property whilst you had the tenancy - you would be responsible for the costs. I personally have sympathy with the OP - you can't get blood out of stone. But looking at it from the landlord's point of view - tenants are very good at knowing their rights within a fixed term tenancy until THEY want to breach the contract. Ultimately you signed up to a 12 month tenancy to give you the protection against eviction - you now want to break this contract - the reasons why are really no concern of the landlord. Legally you have to pay rent and any associated bills for the property until the tenancy ends. I would appeal to the son's better (and hopefully more sensible side) and offer a settlement. Veiled threats regarding possible rent arrears may backfire.

Hi

I wouldn't dream of making any threats to anyone, yet alone to my current landlord. I do not intend shirking from any of my responsibilities and it was never my intention of breaking any tenancy agreement. My circumstances simply changed and I agree that this is of no consequence to my landlord.

Unfortunately my company has made redundancies, and these were certainly not on any radar when I took out the tenancy agreement.

I am simply trying to make the best of a bad situation.