Tenants want court order!

Annie35

You do have the option to sell to an investor, plenty of houses are sold with sitting tenants, if you are in a rush you could consider auction. Speak to a local auctioneer about the reserve price, it won't be sold at less then you state.

But today issue a section 21 notice to get the ball rolling at your end, this will give your tenants 2 months request to leave & is the 1st step.

Comms69

Annie35 wrote: »

You do have the option to sell to an investor, plenty of houses are sold with sitting tenants, if you are in a rush you could consider auction. Speak to a local auctioneer about the reserve price, it won't be sold at less then you state.

But today issue a section 21 notice to get the ball rolling at your end, this will give your tenants 2 months request to leave & is the 1st step.

No, it gives 2 months notice of intention to seek possession.

Smodlet

BorisThomson wrote: »

In your other three you're inheriting either your father's house or the best part of £500K. If need be, can you not rent for a while?

Ah! The mists are clearing. How dare these peasants inconvenience the landed gentry? Outrageous, the liberties they take these days! What next? Revolution?

Cakeguts

Put your property into an auction with the tenants still living in it and sell to another landlord.

[Deleted User]

Having looked at your other thread I can now give useful comments.

It is March. If it takes you a few months to evict tenants and sell this other house (other than the house you have inherited from your mother) I don't see that your brother can do much. It will cost him a lot of money to force a sale with no guarantee of success. As long as you are in the process of selling the other house to raise funds (starting by evicting the tenants).., you should be ok.

If you are really that worried, sell it at auction, but you will get a lot less money for it. I am not sure there is a need.

I think you are worrying unnecessarily.

But the best thing to do is discuss the full situation with the solicitor you were happy with (the last one). If the inherited house is worth £400k, £250 an hour is not a lot of money for the occasional piece of accurate legal advice specific to your circumstances. There's a time when saving money just isn't worth it, even here. And having a solicitor involved, as already mentioned on your other thread, could mean you can take off the value of the house the money you have used on repairs etc.., I don't know, but your solicitor will know. Again, not engaging a specialist solicitor could be a false economy.

Annie35

Comms69 wrote: »

No, it gives 2 months notice of intention to seek possession.

No, I mean that section 21 notice is the landlord asking the tenant to leave (& that they can seek possession through court if they dont), but the letter is a request to leave by the date. ( Just using a slightly less aggressive language to express the same thing )

G_M

Annie35 wrote: »

No, I mean that section 21 notice is the landlord asking the tenant to leave (& that they can seek possession through court if they dont), but the letter is a request to leave by the date. ( Just using a slightly less aggressive language to express the same thing )

No. A S21 is not 'the landlord asking the tenant to leave', though the LL could, of course, write a letter at the same time doing just that.

The S21 is a legal document (Form 4a these days) with a specific meaning and specific purpose.

Annie35

G_M wrote: »

No. A S21 is not 'the landlord asking the tenant to leave', though the LL could, of course, write a letter at the same time doing just that.

The S21 is a legal document (Form 4a these days) with a specific meaning and specific purpose.

You are absolutely correct it's not a request to leave BY a certain date, my mistake, however I do still consider it a request to leave. (Please leave or this will happen)

You are required to leave the below address after [ ] 1
. If you do not leave,
your landlord may apply to the court for an order under section 21(1) or (4) of the Housing Act 1988
requiring you to give up possession

Crashy_Time

Cakeguts wrote: »

Put your property into an auction with the tenants still living in it and sell to another landlord.

Yep, then they will get a rent increase and wish they had played ball. Good advice.

Jeanie_84

Smodlet wrote: »

What the hell does the fact your tenants receive housing benefit have to do with anything? Do you think the law is different for those who don't? Many who work also receive housing benefit so it does not follow that those who do not can automatically afford to just rent somewhere else.

Umm the housing benefit is something many banks won't allow as part of a buy to let mortgage. It's part of what they stipulate. I thought that was unfair but as a result of that and the fact I charged them about almost half of the rental in that area they are now in a position where they can't afford anywhere else in the immediate area.

Because they are on housing benefit the Council advise them to wait until the bailiffs throw them out. So as a consequence I have to take it that far.

The system is at fault, the lack of housing, etc etc. You could argue that if the house was rented to people who were not criteria for housing benefit they would just find somewhere new asap and move out.

So as a result many people don't allow housing benefit which narrows rehoming them even more. So as a result there are wider repercussions.

I really don't think I need to justify my parents working their butts off all their life and leaving me part of a house when they died. If I was 'rich' there wouldn't be a need to sell that house. I'm just lucky to have had parents who enabled me be in this position.