Potentially homeless and pregnant

hickles69

Oh my goodness me! They asked for evidence of £31k savings! That's nuts. This is on top of the £20k I have.

[Deleted User]

Shame you can't contact the LL.., it sounds quite ridiculous. I'm afraid you may have to look elsewhere. What was the £400 you have already paid for? Possibly some of it was returnable.

Maybe the Boyfriend is not as sussed as previously thought? He seems to have had financial problems AND not know when to keep his mouth shut i.e. lack of judgement re what to reveal and why. This could, I am afraid, lead to other problems if he's a bit slow on the uptake.

ViolaLass

OP, did you offer to pay six months up front?

hickles69

I dealt with it all last time so that's why he didn't know not to day anything. Got the evidence of £30k sent off today so fingers crossed.

He was a gambler in his teens but he's been paying it off since v early 20s (now 33). He reckons that I told him to do it. Pffft did I heck.

I am going to ring letting agent tomorrow lunchtime and offer the 6 months rent up front of its a no. Or I could do a while b year v up front.

[Deleted User]

Obviously its your business, but having lived with similar (and with two children, not knowing how to feed them because solely of his irresponsibility with money) I'd be a little bit wary. Its a long time to be paying off a debt.., must have been some debt or low payments. Having acted with such a lack of forsight at 33.., I'd wonder if he still has much of an idea as to how things work. Which could be a problem. Sorry to say this.

I hope the rental works out for you.

tea-bag

Deleted_User wrote: »

You are legally entitled to live in the property until bailiffs.
So basically the LL has to give you a S21 notice (2 months). He has to be very careful with the dates he puts on the notice for this to be valid. Once the notice expires he will have to apply for a possession order and then bailiffs. It will take around 2 months or even more. If the LL hasn't protected your deposit the courts won't accept the S21 and he will need to either protect it or return it to you in full before serving a new S21.
This will give you more time to find a property.
Good luck.

Good advice let's screw the landlord who may have been perfectly reasonable because we are all big land owners smoking cigars, drinking port and driving Bentleys!

kiss_me_now9

TBH I know you say you've looked but I'd be tempted to look for somewhere else with a new estate agent. Sounds like they're deliberately putting obstacles in your way.

tea-bag

kiss_me_now9 wrote: »

TBH I know you say you've looked but I'd be tempted to look for somewhere else with a new estate agent. Sounds like they're deliberately putting obstacles in your way.

If you read her old posts she seems a bit of a nightmare tenant TBF.

Rollingstart

tea-bag wrote: »

Good advice let's screw the landlord who may have been perfectly reasonable because we are all big land owners smoking cigars, drinking port and driving Bentleys!

Deleted_User advice is very accurate. Nothing about trying to screw the landlord, that's just the way things are. It's unfortunate that tenants have to do this but it's to stop them becoming 'intentionally homeless' which is a far more serious thing than a landlord having to go to the trouble of evicting a tenant.

The fact this is necessary is the fault of those who make the laws and enforce them not the tenants.

tea-bag

Rollingstart wrote: »

Deleted_User advice is very accurate. Nothing about trying to screw the landlord, that's just the way things are. It's unfortunate that tenants have to do this but it's to stop them becoming 'intentionally homeless' which is a far more serious thing than a landlord having to go to the trouble of evicting a tenant.

The fact this is necessary is the fault of those who make the laws and enforce them not the tenants.

At huge cost to the landlord.