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Advice with a housing issue please
Outeast1000
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I live in a rooming house that i have lived in for 25 years which is owned by a private landlord who has a contract with the local London council where we live to house people and has 12 rooms all of which were occupied until about 5 years ago when a person moves out now the landlord leaves the room empty some of which have been empty for 5 years
Now only 5 of the rooms are occupied a couple of us work and pay our own rent to the landlord the people that do not work have their rent paid for by the local London council where we live
During the past week we have received about 8 letters saying that the property does not have a licence sent to different people from the local london council to people who no longer live here some who have not lived here for over 20 years to send their tenancy agreement to the council as soon as possible . None of us who live here now has received one of these letters so far
My question is if the landlord does not get a licence can the council close the property down and if they do how much notice do they have to give us and do they have to rehouse us . The council have probably been in contact with the landlord about this issue already but we do not know as it is very hard to get in contact with him at sometime
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Now only 5 of the rooms are occupied a couple of us work and pay our own rent to the landlord the people that do not work have their rent paid for by the local London council where we live
During the past week we have received about 8 letters saying that the property does not have a licence sent to different people from the local london council to people who no longer live here some who have not lived here for over 20 years to send their tenancy agreement to the council as soon as possible . None of us who live here now has received one of these letters so far
My question is if the landlord does not get a licence can the council close the property down and if they do how much notice do they have to give us and do they have to rehouse us . The council have probably been in contact with the landlord about this issue already but we do not know as it is very hard to get in contact with him at sometime
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Sorry to hear about this.
I have no advice for you other that to suggest that if you haven't already you get in touch with Shelter to see what they say
Shelter - The housing and homelessness charity
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How do you know what the letters say? Have you opened mail for other people? If so, you do realise that that is an offence?-1
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It is only an offence to open another person mail if you intend to use it to their detriment, or you don’t have a reasonable excuse for opening it I think op could reasonably say they opened it as they were concerned that the information from the council might affect them.LinLui said:How do you know what the letters say? Have you opened mail for other people? If so, you do realise that that is an offence?
Section 84 in the link
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/part/V/crossheading/offences-of-interfering-with-the-mail
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So this is presumably an HMO (house in multiple occupation) which requires a licence.Yes the council could close it down, but equally likely they would tell the LL to make whatever improvements are needed and then apply for a licence.1
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The reason why we opened the letters was because we knew the people they were sent to do not live here anymore some of them have not lived at this address for over twenty years and we guessed that they contained very important information which they did OKLinLui said:How do you know what the letters say? Have you opened mail for other people? If so, you do realise that that is an offence?0 -
What is the landlord's motivation for leaving rooms empty and not receiving rent? It sounds as if he is only getting half of the potential income for the building.
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martindow said:What is the landlord's motivation for leaving rooms empty and not receiving rent? It sounds as if he is only getting half of the potential income for the building.
Sounds to me like the landlord is going to sell up and rather than evict they are waiting for people to leave. I wonder if the council will encourage them to speed it up a bit.
Mr Generous - Landlord for more than 10 years. Generous? - Possibly but sarcastic more likely.1 -
And none of that even applies if it’s mail addressed to your address, only things wrongly delivered to you (ie addressed to a different address). The name of the addressee is irrelevant.Debbie9009 said:
It is only an offence to open another person mail if you intend to use it to their detriment, or you don’t have a reasonable excuse for opening it I think op could reasonably say they opened it as they were concerned that the information from the council might affect them.LinLui said:How do you know what the letters say? Have you opened mail for other people? If so, you do realise that that is an offence?
Section 84 in the link
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/part/V/crossheading/offences-of-interfering-with-the-mail5 -
We cannot understand either what his motivation for leaving rooms empty is and if we ask him he will probably tell us to mind our own businessmartindow said:What is the landlord's motivation for leaving rooms empty and not receiving rent? It sounds as if he is only getting half of the potential income for the building.0 -
And if the local Council does close the property down because it has got no licence or the landlord closes it down for some other reason do the local council have to rehouse us and how much notice do they have to give us to leave for a no fault eviction and do we have to leave before the given time . I have lived at this property for just over 25 years0
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