Dealing with sitting tenants

Hazel_Taylor

Hello everyone,

I have this situation: for two months, the five-member family would like to move into one of my houses. The problem is that they want to be alone, but I still have two tenants inside that house, and they have a contract for three more months. How to negotiate with these tenants? Is there a way to break the AST agreement?

If someone has a similar experience, I turned into the ear.

theartfullodger

Only to bribe them to go unless there is a break clause.

And would you be happy if your tenants wanted to break the contract -eg leaving early or not paying rent?

fairy_lights

When do your family want to move in to the house?
Getting rid of perfectly good paying tenants just so your family can stay in the house for two months is madness imo.
The tenants don't have to leave early and there's really nothing you can do to make them if they don't want to go. Offering to pay all moving costs and the deposit on a new house might help persuade them but they don't have to agree.
Wouldn't it be easier to find somewhere else for your family to stay instead?

princeofpounds

If someone has a similar experience, I turned into the ear.

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Hazel_Taylor

You didn't understand me, or I'm a bad story teller It's not my family, and they will not stay for two months and go, they will come in two months, and they have plans to stay for one year.

The family is more cost-effective option for me in that measure that I'm considering to pay sitting tenants to leave and help them in finding new home. The problem is, if we don't break the agreement, they can chase me in some ways...

fairy_lights wrote: »

When do your family want to move in to the house?
Getting rid of perfectly good paying tenants just so your family can stay in the house for two months is madness imo.
The tenants don't have to leave early and there's really nothing you can do to make them if they don't want to go. Offering to pay all moving costs and the deposit on a new house might help persuade them but they don't have to agree.
Wouldn't it be easier to find somewhere else for your family to stay instead?

Hazel_Taylor

The truth is I'm not native English speaker, sometimes I get lost :rotfl:

princeofpounds wrote: »

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Vectis

Hazel_Taylor wrote: »

Hello everyone,

I have this situation: for two months, the five-member family would like to move into one of my houses. The problem is that they want to be alone, but I still have two tenants inside that house, and they have a contract for three more months. How to negotiate with these tenants? Is there a way to break the AST agreement?

If someone has a similar experience, I turned into the ear.

It's quite simple, your existing tenants stay for 3 months then either leave or stay on. You can't evict tenants early without good reason (unless they agree and then it's not an eviction).

How are the potential new tenants 'more cost effective'? Wont the rent be the same? More people in a property usually means more wear and tear.

You could make your tenants an offer to leave early but is it sensible to do so for the sake of 4 weeks? I wouldn't have thought so.

stator

They have the right to stay there. The only thing you can do is offer them a new place and/or money. They don't have to accept. They may just think "we'll stay here two months whilst we find somewhere else to live because we don't like this landlord"

[Deleted User]

If you can find one family to stay in the presently occupied house, surely you can come across another when the house is vacant? This will obviously not incur any 'tenant removal costs' for you. Its only three months.

Otherwise, you can, as others have said, offer to help the present tenants find somewhere else. But no, there is no other way to legally get them to move out whilst they are in the fixed period of their tenancy if there is no appropriate break clause in the tenancy agreement.

Pixie5740

You can't just break an AST. You will need to negotiate with your current tenants but they are under no obligation to leave the property early. In fact they are under no obligation to leave in 3 months time either.

Only a tenant or a court can end a tenancy. If you're not already a member of a landlord association I think you should join one.

Hazel_Taylor

Thank you all I appreciate this and I will talk with my present tenants. Will pass the solution here...

@Pixie5740 I live in the UK, can you recommend me some landlord association?

Pixie5740 wrote: »

Only a tenant or a court can end a tenancy. If you're not already a member of a landlord association I think you should join one.