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When to give tenant notice during house sale?

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  • richbek
    richbek Posts: 21 Forumite
    Would your tenant be interested in buying it?


    We had to leave our last rented property because the lady who owned it had died and they needed to sell it. We offered a figure to buy it, which they turned down for being too low. We couldn't go higher at the time, so moved out into another rented property.


    The empty house sat on the market at the higher price for around 8 months. They then reduced it twice before it sold. We kept checking back and it ended up selling 15 months after we moved out, for around the same price we had offered (allowing for market increases).
    Mum to three little boys. Long time lurker!


    Jumping on to the housing ladder - we've exchanged! Woop! Completion set for 15th July.
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    One. You should try it.
    Will do. When can you bring it round?

    :bdaycake:
  • divadee
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    Pixie5740 wrote: »
    Why do you need to be out in 7 weeks? Have you served notice? The tenancy can only be ended by you, the tenant, or a court so if it's just the case that your LL has served you with a Section 21 notice you don't need to move anywhere in 7 weeks. You can stay put, and let your LL go to court for an eviction order. Even then you don't need to leave until bailiffs come and physically remove you from the property. That might just buy you enough time to complete and move into your new home. Yes, you'd need to pay the course costs but that could work out a lot cheaper than moving twice.


    Our solicitor 'off the record' said pretty much the same thing. She said if it didn't go through it would take 3 odd months to get you out anyway so you could just stay. The fear for me is what if the property purchase fell through? If we had exchanged by the date we have to leave I would be tempted to stay but if we haven't exchanged I would be scared of getting a ccj or something.
  • Pixie5740
    Pixie5740 Posts: 14,515 Forumite
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    divadee wrote: »
    Our solicitor 'off the record' said pretty much the same thing. She said if it didn't go through it would take 3 odd months to get you out anyway so you could just stay. The fear for me is what if the property purchase fell through? If we had exchanged by the date we have to leave I would be tempted to stay but if we haven't exchanged I would be scared of getting a ccj or something.

    How would you end up with a CCJ? Sure if it got as far as court and bailiffs and you refused to pay up then you could end up with a CCJ awarded against you but you don't get a CCJ just for waiting for an eviction order and bailiffs.

    Then again who knows how long your house purchase will take.

    Edit: Have you actually served your own notice? If not you should probably do so.
  • AdrianC
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    G_M wrote: »
    Will do. When can you bring it round?

    :bdaycake:
    What are you trying to negotiate with me...?
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    well I was hoping for some free cake, but anything over and above should probobly be negotiated offline....
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    There's a fine line between negotiation and grooming...
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    There's a fine line between negotiation and grooming...

    :eek: :eek: :eek:

    Just how young are you?
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    G_M wrote: »
    :eek: :eek: :eek:

    Just how young are you?
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  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    Cute!

    But as I said before - time to take this offline!
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