Decorating while tenants are in the property

getmore4less

What sort of tenant have you got in this place?

disruption would be less inconvenient to a working coupe out all day than a SAHP with 2 kids

if you can get the contractors sorted perhaps offer to pay for a weeks holiday.

What about giving the tenants notice moving in yourself, getting the place done up and staged to sell?

Lovem

After the replies on here it seems to be for the best that they move instead of us letting them stay on month to month. Then I can go in and do as I please to the property.

Lovem

getmore4less wrote: »

What sort of tenant have you got in this place?

disruption would be less inconvenient to a working coupe out all day than a SAHP with 2 kids

if you can get the contractors sorted perhaps offer to pay for a weeks holiday.

What about giving the tenants notice moving in yourself, getting the place done up and staged to sell?

Working away for three days each week. It would be on those days

Guest101

Lovem wrote: »

Please do not talk to me like I am stupid!

Well you couldn't tell the difference between a question and a statement... and jumped down my throat for 'twisting your words'


You've also still not answered the actual question.

Cakeguts

No you can't. You can only do work to the house that is requested by your tenants. It is not your house while it is let. What you are thinking of doing is similar to you deciding that your next door neighbour's house needs decorating so you ask them nicely if you can send in the decorators and do it up while they are living there.

If you don't understand that when a house is let it is no longer yours to do to what you want then you should not be a landlord. It isn't a question of asking the tenants you shouldn't even be considering doing this while looking at photos. Your tenants own the living space between the walls of the house. What you are thinking of doing is asking the owners of this living space if you can fill it with decorators and tradesmen. What right do you have to do that? If you wouldn't do it to your next door neighbour then you don't do it to your tenants.

If you want to sell this house then you wait until it is vacant before you start doing decorating etc.

I could take 6 months for the court date for possession of the property and this is after the s21 has expired. In that time the house could need decorating again so there is no point in even thinking about doing it now.

Guest101

Lovem wrote: »

After the replies on here it seems to be for the best that they move instead of us letting them stay on month to month. Then I can go in and do as I please to the property.

Again you seem to think that you can just do this, you cant.


Average eviction times are up to 41 weeks from the last statistics I saw....


If they want to go month to month, you literally can do nothing about it!

getmore4less

Lovem wrote: »

I asked someone who deals with tenancy matters. Contract is up end of march we are not renewing it. I was told to serve a section 21. We have a mutual agreement that the tenants can stay on month to month after the notice period. Like we also have one that if they want to leave earlier that is fine

Someone can confirm what happens if you let a S21 lapse what the next step is.

They can say we have not found somewhere we are not moving and it can take a while to get the court order.


Do not underestimate the impact(cost) of trying to sell a place with a tenant in place.

Lovem

Guest101 wrote: »

Again you seem to think that you can just do this, you cant.


Average eviction times are up to 41 weeks from the last statistics I saw....


If they want to go month to month, you literally can do nothing about it!

I am not going to discuss private conversations here! We gave them the option of month to month.

Pixie5740

Lovem wrote: »

After the replies on here it seems to be for the best that they move instead of us letting them stay on month to month. Then I can go in and do as I please to the property.

It's not really as case of you letting them stay on month to month once the fixed term ends. If the tenants remain in the property after the fixed term ends then a periodic tenancy will automatically start. That will either be contractual law or statutory law depending on what the current agreement says will happen at the end of the fixed term.

You issuing a Section 21 will not get the tenants out on the last day of the fixed term unless the tenants themselves choose to move of their own volition.

Your best bet is to communicate with the tenants. Possibly a chat over some tea and cake.

Think about who is likely to buy the property. An investor or someone looking to buy home? Will tarting up the place before a sale really make any difference?

Lovem

getmore4less wrote: »

Someone can confirm what happens if you let a S21 lapse what the next step is.

They can say we have not found somewhere we are not moving and it can take a while to get the court order.


Do not underestimate the impact(cost) of trying to sell a place with a tenant in place.

Thank you.