Landlord wants to evict me and move back in!

Miss_Samantha

I hope the landlord is finally seeking advice.

Lesson learned for him: Be very careful when selecting tenants and do not let anything slip as they will bite you.

Marvel1

Miss_Samantha wrote: »

Lesson learned for him: Be very careful when selecting tenants and do not let anything slip as they will bite you.

Or maybe read up on the law/rules being a landlord as should have done before being one.

Or in your case a more vulnerable tenant who does not know their rights.

johnbusby

Miss_Samantha wrote: »

I hope the landlord is finally seeking advice.

Lesson learned for him: Be very careful when selecting tenants and do not let anything slip as they will bite you.

I disagree, surely the lesson is to be sure of what you are signing away in a contract, and don't expect others to bail you out when your circumstances change...

The landlord is trying to have their cake and eat it

Miss_Samantha

The landlord is wrong, probably more by ignorance than malice.

As has been said, OP could just have replied that in a concise and professional way. Instead he has escalated the situation without restraints in a rather childish way.

Two wrongs do not make one right. Once again this thread has shown that many of you are simply hostile to landlords in general and are just rationalising it.

Kalamazoo was on point in post #113.

MrNiceGuy_007

Miss_Samantha wrote: »

I hope the landlord is finally seeking advice.

Lesson learned for him: Be very careful when selecting tenants and do not let anything slip as they will bite you.

Just remember who bit first....

We hope everything has been going ok with the property up to now.
Regrettably we will have to return back to the UK soon as circumstances have changed. Our son who lives here with us and his wife are expecting a baby at the beginning of April and therefore we have all decided to move back and occupy the property. We therefore wish to serve notice on the tenancy, as per the our rights in the contract. If it is 90 days that would be 18th April but however we would ideally like the property returned to us by the last week in March I.e. Week commencing 25th March. Obviously if you wished to vacate before that date I.e on 4th March, that would be ok too by us. That way on our return on 23 rd March we can do the inspection and return the deposit.
So sorry this is bad news but events have changed beyond our control, which I hope you understand.
Please let me know what would work the best for you.

Miss_Samantha

jamesb1983 wrote: »

Just remember who bit first....

Thank you for proving my point.

johnbusby

Miss_Samantha wrote: »

The landlord is wrong, probably more by ignorance than malice.

As has been said, OP could just have replied that in a concise and professional way. Instead he has escalated the situation without restraints.

Two wrongs do not make one right. Once again this thread has shown that many of you are simply hostile to landlords in general and are just rationalising it.

Kalamazoo was on point in post #113.

I think its fair enough to treat landlords and tenants differently as it's inherently an asymmetrical relationship. The LL is a business and so I expect them to behave entirely professionally and know their responsibilities inside out, the T is a consumer and so I'd be inclined to cut them a bit of slack. It would be exactly the same in any other transaction like buying a TV off Curry's, or paying someone to rewire a house.

This idea that LLs are just ignorant or misinformed, and that this is somehow okay, pops up from time to time as an excuse for shoddy behavior. I have to say I've never bought / understood the rationale, it would certainly never be used in other business sectors - most of which are far less important than housing.

Guest101

HouseBuyer77 wrote: »

Not a good idea, it's not legal to open someone else's post.

Best thing to do would be to cross out address and write 'Not at this address, return to sender' and pop it in a postbox.

It's legal to open mail which comes to your property

JP1978 wrote: »

Bad idea, Postal Services Act 2000 makes that illegal

Can you quote the (full) section of the act?

Pixie5740

johnbusby wrote: »

I think its fair enough to treat landlords and tenants differently as it's inherently an asymmetrical relationship. The LL is a business and so I expect them to behave entirely professionally and know their responsibilities inside out, the T is a consumer and so I'd be inclined to cut them a bit of slack. It would be exactly the same in any other transaction like buying a TV off Curry's, or paying someone to rewire a house.

This idea that LLs are just ignorant or misinformed, and that this is somehow okay, pops up from time to time as an excuse for shoddy behavior. I have to say I've never bought / understood the rationale, it would certainly never be used in other business sectors - most of which are far less important than housing.

It's not often Miss Samantha and I see eye to eye but I agree with her about this although possibly not for the same reasons.

Is the LL a fud? Absolutely but you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

I've dealt with some !!!! poor landlords in my lifetime and I've found the most effective way to deal with them is to get all my ducks in row (i.e. find out what they haven't done such as protected my deposit, issued me with an AT5 form, registered with the local council - I'm in Scotland BTW) and only use that information as and when I had to. Let the burke come to the realisation by doing some research of their own instead of entering into a bunfight with them. Then they will usually be more amenable to terminate the tenancy early is that's what you wish or give you some financial incentive to end the tenancy early if that's what they want.

Slowly slowly catchy monkey.

The look on one landlords face when she realised the penalty for not protecting my deposit and than she had given me an Assured Tenancy rather than a Short Assured Tenancy......priceless.

MrNiceGuy_007

Pixie5740 wrote: »

It's not often Miss Samantha and I see eye to eye but I agree with her about this although possibly not for the same reasons.

Is the LL a fud? Absolutely but you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

I've dealt with some !!!! poor landlords in my lifetime and I've found the most effective way to deal with them is to get all my ducks in row (i.e. find out what they haven't done such as protected my deposit, issued me with an AT5 form, registered with the local council - I'm in Scotland BTW) and only use that information as and when I had to. Let the burke come to the realisation by doing some research of their own instead of entering into a bunfight with them. Then they will usually be more amenable to terminate the tenancy early is that's what you wish or give you some financial incentive to end the tenancy early if that's what they want.

Slowly slowly catchy monkey.

The look on one landlords face when she realised the penalty for not protecting my deposit and than she had given me an Assured Tenancy rather than a Short Assured Tenancy......priceless.

Agreed. I have been foolish. I now know this.

Thankyou