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Help!! Landlord wants to sell up

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  • Guest101
    Guest101 Posts: 15,764 Forumite
    ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »
    The vast majority of people will not be homeless. They will find another place to rent. They have to do that anyway once they get evicted, don't they.

    The law is there to protect those few that might become homeless. If everyone abuses the law by staying as long as possible regardless of their situation instead of just looking round and finding another flat, the law will be changed and those that need it will not be able to take advantage of it.



    1: People will be deemed to be voluntarily homeless by many councils if they leave when notice is given. The council will not rehome them. They will in effect, legally, be homeless.
    2: Whilst many people will find somewhere else to live, the law is clear on this, only a tenant or a court can end a tenancy.
    3: The law is there to protect all tenants.
    4: It is not an abuse of the law to be legally evicted.
    5: Write to you MP if you want the law changed.
  • Guest101
    Guest101 Posts: 15,764 Forumite
    ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »
    Why do you assume people live on the streets or are homeless? A tiny few maybe, most just move. It's not hard. I've done it lots of times, believe it or not.

    Legally homeless and physically homeless - not the same thing!
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    Guest101 wrote: »
    1: People will be deemed to be voluntarily homeless by many councils if they leave when notice is given. The council will not rehome them. They will in effect, legally, be homeless.
    Not quite.

    If somebody voluntarily leaves a tenancy and is then homeless, they are deemed to have made themselves homeless.

    Very important distinction.
  • Guest101
    Guest101 Posts: 15,764 Forumite
    AdrianC wrote: »
    Not quite.

    If somebody voluntarily leaves a tenancy and is then homeless, they are deemed to have made themselves homeless.

    Very important distinction.

    Granted, for the purposes of this I think the meanings were similar enough.
  • ScorpiondeRooftrouser
    ScorpiondeRooftrouser Posts: 2,851 Forumite
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    Guest101 wrote: »
    1: People will be deemed to be voluntarily homeless by many councils if they leave when notice is given. The council will not rehome them. They will in effect, legally, be homeless.
    2: Whilst many people will find somewhere else to live, the law is clear on this, only a tenant or a court can end a tenancy.
    3: The law is there to protect all tenants.
    4: It is not an abuse of the law to be legally evicted.
    5: Write to you MP if you want the law changed.

    Most tenants don't need to be rehomed by councils. They just find another place to live. You are again talking about a small minority.

    I don't want the law changed. I want people who don't need its protection to just act like sensible adults and find another place to live, when they can, which is most of the time.

    If everyone insists on going to court before leaving a rented property then the law will be changed.
  • ScorpiondeRooftrouser
    ScorpiondeRooftrouser Posts: 2,851 Forumite
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    Guest101 wrote: »
    Legally homeless and physically homeless - not the same thing!

    You are not homeless if you are given two months notice to move, look in the paper, find another flat, and move to it in two months. Physically or legally.
  • GwylimT
    GwylimT Posts: 6,530 Forumite
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    dimbo61 wrote: »
    Where are you living ? USA or Canada !
    Round here we have the NHS for people who are ill.
    Tell agent nothing and wait until you are served proper notice with s21.
    Deposit protected and prescribed information given to you ?
    Not your problem if someone is I'll.

    If only it was like that, the nhs don't provide the life saving treatment my wife needs, it costs us £800 per month.
  • Guest101
    Guest101 Posts: 15,764 Forumite
    ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »
    Most tenants don't need to be rehomed by councils. They just find another place to live. You are again talking about a small minority.

    I don't want the law changed. I want people who don't need its protection to just act like sensible adults and find another place to live, when they can, which is most of the time.

    If everyone insists on going to court before leaving a rented property then the law will be changed.

    I'm talking about principals.


    You cant go around saying someone isn't sensible for exercising their rights. I'd counter and say people who don't exercise their rights risk losing them.


    The vast majority of tenants DO move like you said, what you're doing is criticising the small minority who don't for whatever reason.
  • Guest101
    Guest101 Posts: 15,764 Forumite
    ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »
    You are not homeless if you are given two months notice to move, look in the paper, find another flat, and move to it in two months. Physically or legally.



    Oh crikey, but the whole point is that there are additional legal protections, for everyone regardless of their circumstances that say, quite clearly: A tenant is not obliged to move out on notice.


    What your saying is that sensible people behave in an adult like manner and do as they are told. By virtue of which, anyone exercising their rights is childish and annoying?
  • ScorpiondeRooftrouser
    ScorpiondeRooftrouser Posts: 2,851 Forumite
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    Guest101 wrote: »
    By virtue of which, anyone exercising their rights is childish and annoying?

    Not everyone, no. But often, yes. When they don't need to.
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