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Landlord selling up

emlou2009 · 2016-03-17 12:33:18

We are 10 months into a 12 month tenancy (not fixed term) and our LL has decided to sell up instead of renew the tenancy. The house is not on the market yet. We were told before moving in that LL was looking for long term tenants so this has come as a total shock. We're also skint having blown what little we had in savings…

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mrginge Posts: 4,843 Forumite

18 March 2016 at 11:15AM

HappyMJ wrote: »

Personally and I know it seems nasty but if you don't have the money to move then I'd stop paying the rent and save what you would have paid in rent for your next property. You will get at least 3 months worth of rent payments saved before you've got enough to find somewhere else to live and you won't be evicted before then. The landlord reference is pointless. Your existing landlord is not going to give you a bad reference as they want rid of non-paying tenants so they'll say you have been paying the rent on time even though your latest rent payments will be late. Once you've left you can negotiate a settlement to pay the arrears over time.....and I'm a landlord.

You do seem to like repeating this garbage.

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