My landlord is selling our house

Lolaboo1969

Hi I’m looking for some advice. My landlord owes us over 2000 pounds for jobs we have had to do on the property which he should have done for example burst pipe work replacing a cracked sink and lots of other things we have receipts for. He said he would come and give us the money for them but I’m not holding my breath. He has recently had to pay for a new kitchen and roof as we have been complaining to him about it for around 10 years as the roof was leaking really bad and the units were all rotten. He now tells us he is selling the property to his son next week and we will have to pay the next rent instalment to his son. It all sound very dodgy to me. Does he have to provide any details regarding the sale to us and one more thing is he had only done 3 gas safety checks in the 20 years we have been here and I had to ask him to do that I just need some advice about what should happen. Thank you 

dimbo61

So what do you want ?
Your Landlord is lazy, stupid and breaking the Law !
You have had  this LL for 20 years WHY ?
How often has the rent gone up ?
Do you have an Assured Shorthold Tenancy or an Assured Tenancy ????
Huge difference between them as the LL cannot hike the rent whenever he wants.
Have you now got a EICR report for your home and are the electrics safe ? Smoke alarms and CO alarms, Heat alarm ?
If the LL has not been carrying out a Gas Safe Certificate every year he nor his Son can evict you.
Did you pay a deposit ?
Have you got an EPC for the property

https://www.gov.uk/buy-sell-your-home/energy-performance-certificates

moneysavinghero

He does not have to provide any detail of the sale to you. But you will need to be officially notified of who your new landlord is and confirmation where they will be keeping your deposit safe (your old landlord should pass your deposit onto them).

Lolaboo1969

He hasn’t provided me with a new tenancy agreement since it ran out about 2 years ago he just buries his head in the sand about everything and when I tell him things need fixing he just says he’s skint

moneysavinghero

He didn't need to provide you with a new tenancy agreement, you will have automatically gone onto a periodic tenancy. Look on the brightside, hopefully his son might be a better landlord than his dad - sounds like he can't be any worse.

As for the £2,000, did you get permission from the landlord and agreement that he would refund you the cost (or at least gave him chance to perform the required repairs himself)? If not you are probably not going to see that 2k again.

45002

Lolaboo1969

Can I ask how long have you been living there for, date you 1st moved in

Thank you...

Lolaboo1969

Hi we have lived in the property since 2001 and money saving hero he was informed about all the jobs that needed doing he is aware of what he owes and has said he will pay back the money I’m just worried the sale will go ahead before he does and then where do we stand when he is no longer the landlord 

Thrugelmir

How did the sink crack? 

justworriedabit

Lolaboo1969 said:

Hi I’m looking for some advice. My landlord owes us over 2000 pounds for jobs we have had to do on the property which he should have done for example burst pipe work replacing a cracked sink and lots of other things we have receipts for. He said he would come and give us the money for them but I’m not holding my breath. He has recently had to pay for a new kitchen and roof as we have been complaining to him about it for around 10 years as the roof was leaking really bad and the units were all rotten. He now tells us he is selling the property to his son next week and we will have to pay the next rent instalment to his son. It all sound very dodgy to me. Does he have to provide any details regarding the sale to us and one more thing is he had only done 3 gas safety checks in the 20 years we have been here and I had to ask him to do that I just need some advice about what should happen. Thank you 

Hiya
By the sound of things you appear to be model tenants.
The works you did, do you hold evidence re parts you bought and did the LL put it in writing via letter/email/text etc the repairs and LL would pay you?
If there is evidence of agreements re repairs by you, is their evidence amounting to the 2k?
Do you have a teancy agreement? Did this roll on to the periodic one?
Re the 3 gas safety certificates over 20 years did you not report him, where you not worried re your safety?
How did the sink break?
Did you not report the LL to environmental health re the rotten units leaking roof, no gas certs?
LL can sell to whom he wants and he does not have to tell you who it is.
If LL sell with you in there then it is your duty to pay the rent to the new owner and you will be advised accordingly.
The current or new LL can serve you with a notice to quit.
Re lack of gas safety certs report him and he could go to prison, potentially.
The bottom line, he is within his rights to serve the appropriate notice for you to go or the new LL can do that. IMO, you
have a duty to yourselves if not anyone else to get this LL dealt with by the authorities.

justworriedabit

45002 said:

Lolaboo1969

Can I ask how long have you been living there for, date you 1st moved in

Thank you...

First post clearly states 20 years.

Lolaboo1969

We didn’t report him because we don’t want to be thrown out we have 20 years of memories in this house with our children but right now I’m at a loss what to do it’s causing a lot of stress and there isn’t any decent houses to let near us