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Section 8 served to my tenants during lockdown - will it get thrown out?
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moneysavinghero said:They would always have the option of offering the tenant a sweetener to vacate to property of their own free will. Considering they were happy to play fast and loose with the tenants safety, this seems fair and like a quasi-compensation.OK, now that's going a bit too far. Playing fast and loose with the tenants safety? If that's the case, then they should be going to prison. In which case, it would be at best a few months. Not tied into a property that they neither want, potentially can afford and are liable to maintain. Thus making them a worse landlord and almost certainly breaking other rules and laws and therefore getting into a huge circle of trouble which will in effect end with either their suicide or permanent incarceration. When actually, all they want is to get rid of the property, because they accept that they're not cut out to be a landlord (well, you started the silly stuff)
Homelessness? Tenancies end. That's a fact. As we've all discussed, it takes upwards of 12 months if it has to go through the courts. They're not about to be booted out instantly, simply because the landlord has decided that they're no longer capable of being a landlord. And whoever bought it can't do that because the tenancy doesn't change, just because of a new owner. it's not a new tenancy, it's an extension of the existing tenancy. If the tenant wants to stay on a rolling tenancy, then theoretically, they never ever have to move out and can never be moved out (unless they don't pay their rent).leypt1 said:They could evict using a section 8 if a relevant ground applied, jeez. The point is that the tenant shouldn't be punished (with homelessness!) for their landlord's failures, and anyone buying the house off the current landlord would just need to make sure they followed the steps needed at the start of a tenancy for a S21 to be valid.and thank you @greatcrested again for answering the question with a sensible response.0
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