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Mortgage offer done but now changing house

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  • macman said:
    Even if you have given notice, you don't have to move out on the 20th. You can sit and wait to be evicted, which at present will take many months to go through the courts. However this will involve you paying extra costs, as you will be liable for the LL's legal expenses.

    And possibly double rent as they have already given notice but would fail to move out by that date.
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    macman said:
    Even if you have given notice, you don't have to move out on the 20th. You can sit and wait to be evicted, which at present will take many months to go through the courts. However this will involve you paying extra costs, as you will be liable for the LL's legal expenses.

    And possibly double rent as they have already given notice but would fail to move out by that date.
    Correct. I wasn't recommending it as a course of action, but it is a possible one.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • macman said:
    Even if you have given notice, you don't have to move out on the 20th. You can sit and wait to be evicted, which at present will take many months to go through the courts. However this will involve you paying extra costs, as you will be liable for the LL's legal expenses.

    To be honest our landlady has been really good to us and I am not someone who would sit in a house waiting to be evicted. 
    I think once I get an answer from the bank tomorrow the decision will be either find a short cheap rental that we could break the lease on or a longer rental which we would have to think more of our wants/needs as it would be our home for the time being. 
    Either way we are starting to pack up today and storing furniture at the in laws. 
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