Tenants not moving out

duchy

Trouble is OP you are seeing the house as your "home" rather than a business asset so you are emotionally reacting. Understandable but once the house became a rental -you needed to detatch and look at it as a business matter.

Your LA should not have assumed you understood that a six month tenency doesn't end smack on the six months -especially if the tenants require rehousing into the social housing system.

The only thing you've done "wrong" is not inform yourself of how a tenancy ends and howlocal housing departments use the law to delay having to find your tenants a new property. It causes a lot of stress not just for you but for your tenants too as they are dealing with a local government department with all their red tape and not always stellar service levels.
I'm sure they'd rather know where they are going next rather than all this uncertainty. It is entirely possible that they chose your property expressly because they knew you'd be ending the tenency after six months (rther than a business BTL landlord who would be happy to renew) so they'd be moving sooner into the stability of social housing.

You are both victims of a system that gives you something close to what you want ....but not exactly what you want. If you can just accept no-one is doing anything "wrong" but trying to work within an imperfect system you could save yourself a lot of stress and angst. Focus on following the system correctly to avoid any extra delays but accept the unavoidable delays as a part of the cost of renting out your home and having the mortgage paid whilst you were absent.

(and SMILE at the tenant when you see them at the shops-YOU know where you are going to be living next.....they have NO idea where they'll end up ! No need to end up with bad feeling in a small town -keep it civil whilst you both deal with the mess our housing system is in currently)

I_have_spoken

I feel bad for the OP. Every chance the tenants will have stripped every bit of copper pipe and cable out the house and sold for scrap, then turned the house over to squatters. If any of them are preggers, you'll be looking at 12 months minimum to get possession, while they trouser the bennies and live rent-free.

ViolaLass

I_have_spoken wrote: »

I feel bad for the OP. Every chance the tenants will have stripped every bit of copper pipe and cable out the house and sold for scrap, then turned the house over to squatters. If any of them are preggers, you'll be looking at 12 months minimum to get possession, while they trouser the bennies and live rent-free.

Talk about worst case scenario!!

duchy

ViolaLass wrote: »

Talk about worst case scenario!!

Saturday morning Troll .....rather than a likely scenario TBH

ViolaLass

duchy wrote: »

Saturday morning Troll .....rather than a likely scenario TBH

That was my point. I felt the poster was rather over-egging the situation. I think he/she has also missed that as they have thanked my post!

Wirenth

duchy wrote: »

Saturday morning Troll .....rather than a likely scenario TBH

He might be joking, but with Dad's bungalow we've had one tenant that nicked the boiler and radiators and and a mysterious fire in the attic the night another moved out. And these two came with good references! Personally, I'd never let my home out to anyone.

I feel for the OP, because, as another poster said, this is their home, not a business asset, and I can feel the worry in their posts.

All you can do is follow the legal process, OP, and, as another poster has suggested, be prepared to temporarily rent yourself until you can get back in your own home.

Guest101

mixedwrestling wrote: »

All you have to do is read some of the posts on this topic to see who I'm talking about.

Guest101 for a start.

Anyway, I've reported the right people so that'll be that.

Glad the law is changing soon giving the Landlord's more protection

Oh mixedwrestling - did you not mention to everyone how your reporting me for 'cyber crimes' to the police...

Should be an age limit to post on these boards.

P.S thanks for the shout out!

G_M

This thread has long-since outlived its usefulness.

The OP has been given the information he needs (S21, accelerated possession, court process, timescales, tenant rights).

The only outstanding issue perhaps is the S21 dates/validity, but the OP has failed to provide the required info, and anyway has an agent.

The thread now has simply degenerated into a slanging match. I'm out.

G_M

ValHaller wrote: »

No doubt the mods will come along and revoke the posting rights of those who are inbred trash and suitably reward the poster of this:

My advice ValHaller - don't feed the trolls.

mrginge

Hawth0rn wrote: »

They started the tenancy 31st May 2013, 6 months tenancy. They KNEW the house would not be available after this date, BEFORE they paid any money or signed any agreement. They have been given the S21 last week, to move at the end of the 6 months tenancy. If I was asking and I would never try and force them to leave sooner I would have compensated them all their costs as any respectable landlord would do.

Perhaps the tenants were ignorant of the law (just like you) at the time they signed the agreement?
Now they know the law and are acting according to it.

Its a quite simple concept. As a LL you have no power to end a tenancy. Only the tenant or a judge can do that.

Ultimately this is down to your mistake in understanding how a tenancy can be ended and, as most people on here know those rules, there is not going to be much support for your position. Especially when you just rant on.

The only reason i have any sympathy for your position is that your agent should have flagged this issue up as soon as you told them you were expecting to move back immediately after the fixed term came to an end.
But then we all know what LAs are like...

As soon as the s.21 expires, go to court, get a judgement, evict them, move back in.