Letting agent moving new tenant in to my house

Morglin

A wind up, as no private landlord, with even half a brain cell, would try this lol

Lin :whistle:

dealer_wins

Vectis wrote: »

Gazumped by 4 Algerians! Dave's livid. He was planning on subletting it to a Romanian family, or three. The Daily Mail were interested in writing an article about it.

The world's gone mad. Apparently.

We can fir all 7+ of them in there with room to spare!

System

I'm not sure that there will be room to spare. The Algerians have brought their camels

[Deleted User]

!!!!!! wrote: »

I'm not sure that there will be room to spare. The Algerians have brought their camels

I thought that it was you farting :rotfl:... must be the camels .. :eek:

System

You'd know if it was me, it would make the camels smell like roses

arcon5

Count yourself lucky.
My landlord wants to move somebody in to our 1yr olds room - apparently he doesn't need a room that size so he can share it

lammy82

Not sure why so many assume this is a wind-up. Sounds perfectly plausible to me. The landlord reckons he can get £600/month by having two tenants instead of one.

You could offer to increase the rent to something closer to £600 if you can afford it, on the basis that you would keep the whole house. You might be able to negotiate something cheaper if you commit to a 12+ month contract. E.g. he might go for £500/month.

Otherwise, as others have pointed out, you need to have been given 2 months' notice if you're being asked to leave (or have the arrangement altered as drastically as this). I suggest you make it clear to the landlord that you don't want to share the house, remind him of the two months' notice required, and either negotiate something to your mutual satisfaction or ask for notice to be properly served.

Azari

lammy82 wrote: »

Not sure why so many assume this is a wind-up. Sounds perfectly plausible to me.

Because renting out a house is completely different to renting out rooms in a shared house.

Whilst it's just about possible to a landlord not using a letting agent could be stupid enough to try and make the change in the way described no letting agent would be unaware that you can't bounce someone from an assured short tern tenancy in that way.

Plus, first time poster who was only on the site for a couple of hours and has not returned.

RuthnJasper

I despise trolls in all shape or form, but in this instance I genuinely can't see why people have been so rotten to the OP. If the landlord is a bit of an "under-the-radar" type of shyster and thought he might be able to manipulate the OP then it's a plausible question.

The OP doesn't strike me as trolling. I hope the situation gets resolved without too much hassle.

terra_ferma

Azari wrote: »

Because renting out a house is completely different to renting out rooms in a shared house.

Whilst it's just about possible to a landlord not using a letting agent could be stupid enough to try and make the change in the way described no letting agent would be unaware that you can't bounce someone from an assured short tern tenancy in that way.

Plus, first time poster who was only on the site for a couple of hours and has not returned.

clue:

have a month to month tenancy agreement

If the OP thinks s/he has no rights, it's obviously very possible that the landlords thinks he can do as he pleases.
It's just sad that new posters are ridiculed and insulted instead of getting any useful advice.
OP doesn't need to sign in to read the replies and decide not to bother coming back...