My landlord is selling our house

moneysavinghero

Personally i would write off the £2,000. Its only £100 a year. 

Just wait and see what the son's plans are. He might just want to carry on letting it to you. He might even agree that his dad is a complete ****** and will start doing things by the book.

Worse case scenario the son will decide he doesn't want to be in the lettings business and will want you out. He would have to give you 6 months notice. Then apply to the courts (another 6 months most likely). Given the current LL attitude its highly likely that the courts would rule the notice invalid so there's another 6 months. So you will have at least 12 months probably 18 months to find somewhere new.

pinkshoes

You have 2 choices:

1. Forget the £2000. As mentioned above, over 20 years it isn't that much.
2. Send the LL a "Letter before action" with a copy of the receipts of all the work you have paid for, and state that as he is now selling the house, he has 28 days to pay all money owed. State that if he is unable to pay, you will be putting aside the amount from your rent, and will happily pay the outstanding rent once he pays his outstanding debt.

How much is your monthly rent?

Chances are the son might want you out anyway... who knows! And there are so many things not right with the tenancy that it would take them a log time to legally be able to evict you.

SpiderLegs

pinkshoes said:

You have 2 choices:

1. Forget the £2000. As mentioned above, over 20 years it isn't that much.
2. Send the LL a "Letter before action" with a copy of the receipts of all the work you have paid for, and state that as he is now selling the house, he has 28 days to pay all money owed. State that if he is unable to pay, you will be putting aside the amount from your rent, and will happily pay the outstanding rent once he pays his outstanding debt.

How much is your monthly rent?

Chances are the son might want you out anyway... who knows! And there are so many things not right with the tenancy that it would take them a log time to legally be able to evict you.

Why would the OP want to make it easier for the LL to evict them?

edit: and harder for them to rent another property?

Lolaboo1969

When we moved in 20 years ago there wasn’t a deposit scheme in place so we agreed with the landlord verbally that we would replace the bathroom and some of the kitchen cupboards as the bathroom suite was very old and not in a good state and the kitchen was virtually non existent a sink and 1 cupboard instead of paying a deposit the son is now asking that we pay another deposit to him where do we stand as his dad is being an !!!!!! again 

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I don't think he can ask for a deposit now when it isn't a new tenancy?   He's just taken over the existing agreement from his father.

Lolaboo1969

He says he has bought the property from his dad and is now the new owner but his dad is still the registered landlord I checked with the council 

Lolaboo1969

He also said he wants to do a credit check on us even though we have been in this property for 20 years and the landlord was his dad 

justworriedabit

OP
Bottom lines.
The new LL can tell you to leave as per law.
He can also ask you to sign an new agreement and if you refuse, he could hand you your notice
He can also get a credit check with or without your consent.
As you know it is not your property and like it not he can do the above.
Only you can decide what you want if he wants to to do some or all of the above and if you refuse, he could do as stated above.

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If he wants you out through the courts, though, it will probably take him a year!   

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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 

There are a variety of issues where the ex landlord would appear to have been negligent but these valid issues are mixed in with somewhat irrelevant observations that you make such as the property sale to a son being "very dodgy". Well, not at face value anyway, a property sale would be at the landlords prerogative, no?
Given that you have let the landlord away with 3 gas safety checks in 20 years, I am guessing that you will not have the evidence to form a strong case for £2k of repairs. If so, forget about that one.
What would be more practical now is to focus on what the new owner/landlord must do in relation to your tenancy. There is a strong chance I suggest that the new landlord will make various mistakes which will play into your hands. For example, certain errors could mean that he can never serve a valid Section 21 notice, leaving you in a very strong position to remain in the address (this may already be the case).
You fear being removed from the property for complaining which is suggestive that you are highly unfamiliar with your rights and the ways in which you can be evicted.
If you do stay, you will need to be far sharper in securing repairs or complaining about safety hazards such as lapsed gas safety certiicates, at the time they occur.