Landlord has given notice....

freeisgood

Hello all,
landlord has given notice...we have been at the property for 22 months...we are out of the fixed term and in to rolling.


Landlord wants to move back in as has decided he does not want to live with his mother any more...

The thing is we are a family of five and were going to buy a house in the spring....this would mean moving twice in under a year

Letter has not arrived as yet, but landlord called around and warned us.


I am presuming there is B--ger all we can do about this? Am I correct?

And how much time would we get? Is it 2 months?

Cheers!

thesaint

If he wants the house back, he will indeed get you out sooner or later.

How long are the rental periods(i.e weekly, monthly, quarterly).

Hoploz

Best bring your plans forward then.

It should be 2 months notice.

If you are friendly with him you could find he is negotiable on this. If for example you find a property quickly and start the process of buying it, but it ends up taking a couple of weeks longer than the two months he has given you he might give you a bit of grace - I would if it were me, assuming he doesn't have a deadline he has to leave his mum's house by, of course.

But I am saying this based on a friendly relationship where everyone is on good terms, people try their best to achieve the requested date etc, all negotiated in good faith. This may or may not be the case.

Best advice I can give is find a house ASAP and COMMUNICATE with your LL as much as possible.

smile88egc

Buying a house is not something you want to do under time pressure and is completely unachievable from scratch in 2 months.
The only way to stay any longer than the notice period is to wait until he serves an eviction notice which would I imagine somewhat sour the relationship.
If I were you i'd get used to the idea of another rental and start looking for one with a 6 month tenancy agreement, or one with a break clause.
Best of luck!

G_M

Provided the landlord serves the correct notice, gets the dates right, and has complied with all the related obligations to make it valid, there are only 2 ways to delay eviction:

* stay put till bailiffs actually arrive (and pay the extra costs of this)

* negotiate

kerri_gt

We were in a very similar situation although we were already looking at properties to buy when we were given notice. We had 3mths notice - same position as you, on a rolling tenancy so std notice was actually 2mths but were on good terms with the LL.

We actually found a house on the deadline weekend we'd given ourselves before having to look at rented (with prices rising dramatically in our area it wasn't something we wanted to do). It was indeed (for varying factors) the most stressful thing we have ever done but we completed and didn't need to move to rental.

Talk to your LL and see if you can extend the statutory notice period if you were thinking of looking to buy in the spring then a 6mth rental period / rental with a break clause would work for your timeframe - obviously there is the hassle / cost of moving but I would suggest move the minimum of stuff you need and put the rest in storage so you're not living with boxes but its ready to go when you do buy.

Best of luck.

freeisgood

Thanks...already explained to him, but he wants us out asap, I think we will have to rent for a few months....as I feared, we wont have our buying money till next year.

Thanks all

kazwookie

He may want you out as soon as possible.

But

He has to serve the right notice, within the right timescales, verbal is not good enough.

pinkshoes

First things first, did he protect your deposit correctly in one of the government schemes? (If he didn't, the eviction means naff all...)

G_M

Hey pinkshoes:

Should've = Should HAVE (not 'of')
Would've = Would HAVE (not 'of')

No, I am not perfect, but yes I do judge people on their use of basic English language. If you didn't know the above, then learn it! (If English is your second language, then probobly DO know it.)