Giving notice on Fixed term Tennancy : NEW Q FOR CLARIFICATION!

jhsam

Guest101 wrote: »

You're over thinking this, learn to say 'no, thank you'.

Here's the example:
Agent: if you're not renewing you need to leave.
you: No, thank you.
Agent: you have to leave.
You: No, thank you
Agent: if you dont leave.....<enter threat>
You: are you threatening me with illegal eviction? I'm calling the police.
Agent: No, no, no, that's not what i'm saying.
You: Good, then we will move onto the Statutory Periodic Tenancy as defined by legislation. good day sir/madam.

Thank's for your reply, and the script ha! You are right I am totally over thinking it and it is totally stressing me out!! I don't like conflict. I have not been remotley stressed / bothered about the hosue purchase, it's annoying that it is deleyed, but it's nothing we can do as it's due to the house that our seller is buying so completley out of my hands, so I'm just like meh whatever, it will happen when it happens......dealing with this on the other hand is completly messing with my melon!

I will practice "no thank you" before the time comes

audigex

Most landlords won't just immediately boot you anyway: that gains them nothing, as they'd have an empty house. Most would rather just get a fixed date from you ASAP and then market the property in the meantime.

I agree though, say nothing and move onto an SPT, that gives you at least 2 months assuming the immediately try to evict. They may be perfectly happy with you on an SPT for a while anyway: when I last had a similar situation I just called the agent and told them I'd like to continue on the SPT and they had no issues. Confirmed with the landlord and we went on our merry way

jhsam

audigex wrote: »

Most landlords won't just immediately boot you anyway: that gains them nothing, as they'd have an empty house. Most would rather just get a fixed date from you ASAP and then market the property in the meantime.

I agree though, say nothing and move onto an SPT, that gives you at least 2 months assuming the immediately try to evict. They may be perfectly happy with you on an SPT for a while anyway: when I last had a similar situation I just called the agent and told them I'd like to continue on the SPT and they had no issues. Confirmed with the landlord and we went on our merry way

Thanks for the reply. This is what is stressing me out, that I can't just do nothing as they always book in the inspection about a week before contract ends so we are going to have to contact them to cancel that!! We have actually tried to go on SPT before and they refused. Infact at the beginning when they wanted a 6 month Fixed and we wanted 12 at the least (knew it would be a good 5 yrs before had enough for a house of our own!) they kicked off and said we would have to leave then as they didn't do 12 months, I ended up tracking down the landlord and speaking to him direct and he was happy with 12 months, so told them to sort it out. The agents were a bolshy nightmare!

Guest101

jhsam wrote: »

Thanks for the reply. This is what is stressing me out, that I can't just do nothing as they always book in the inspection about a week before contract ends so we are going to have to contact them to cancel that!! We have actually tried to go on SPT before and they refused. Infact at the beginning when they wanted a 6 month Fixed and we wanted 12 at the least (knew it would be a good 5 yrs before had enough for a house of our own!) they kicked off and said we would have to leave then as they didn't do 12 months, I ended up tracking down the landlord and speaking to him direct and he was happy with 12 months, so told them to sort it out. The agents were a bolshy nightmare!

Write to them if you're really stressed and say that you are not going to be accomodating any inspections. That they are not to enter your property without your express written permission and change the locks.

- sorted

lxpeanut

If the landlord has been reasonable before could you contact him again? Or just write to the agents explaining the situation and that you wont be signing a contract but will give them proper notice when you leave. I'm was in a similar situation but thankfully not agents involved and my landlord is being really flexible.

G_M

All these questions are fully explained in the link you read. Read it again. Then decide what to do based on your knowledge of your rights, and your obligations.

If you don't believe one or more statements in my link, by all means query it. I am always open to amending my advisory posts if anyone spots an error.

Pixie5740

jhsam wrote: »

I have read the link from G_M which was very helpful and if I read it correctly then it means when our FT contract ends on 29th May, and we contact the agents and say we will not be signing a new contract, they can not force us to leave on the 29th when it ends can they?? Even though the contact ends on that date, do they still need to issue a S21 to get us to leave if we refuse to sign a new contract??

No, as already stated, if your contract started 29th May 2014 then it ends 28th May 2015. You can either leave 28th May 2015 but if you are still living in the property come 29th May you will have entered into a Statutory Periodic Tenancy. It's important that you get your dates correct.

jhsam

thanks everyone - I have my head around it now.