Landlords Notice To Quit

Diamond78

trudiha wrote: »

I'm sure that you are absolutely right and you will be in a totally different position in a few years, I'll be delighted when I see the way things work out for you. I think that taking on this landlord by now allowing him to break the law will do wonders for your self esteem and confidence.

You know that what he's doing isn't right or legal.You've complained to the council and they are starting the process of making him meet his responsibilities towards you as his tenant. You have a legal contract with this man, a contract that you've kept your end of by paying your rent and behaving reasonably, now he is trying to worm his way out of providing the service you are paying for. If Tesco's took your shopping from you on your way out of the door, after you'd paid for it, you'd make a fuss and that is exactly what you should do here.

In my experience bad people seem to behave just as badly as you allow them to. The moment you put your foot down, they stop giving you grief. This man is trying to bully you and if you let him get away with it, in the short term he will bully you more and in the medium term he will treat his next tenants in exactly the same way.

How would you feel if you heard that he'd treated another young mother in a similar way to yourself; I bet you'd be fizzing with anger? So you need to ask yourself why you'd be angry for her but you are willing to let yourself be treated this way.

You deserve much better.

I know that you don't want to stay there and I don't blame you but leaving with your tail between your legs isn't the right way to do things. You need to get advice, find out what your legal position is and write to him setting out your own terms for leaving and if he wants to end you contract early, that means he pays your removal expenses and gives you back your deposit.

Thanks hun, If only it was that easy. He has said he will rent it out to a working young man or couple. I am not working at the moment so I get housing benefit.I start my course in a few weeks which is an nvq2 in teaching assistant.I have to do 2 days a week without pay in a school as work experience which is part of my sourse.By April next year I will then be able to work full time as a teaching assistant. The way housing benefit pay the rent is in arrears but the landlord was aware of this.The wife who is actually named on the tenacy agreement always asks for the rent in advance but I cannot make hosuing benefit pay me when it suits them.She complains that she has to pay her mortgage which then makes me feel bad. This is the thing with housing benefit, it will always be a problem which is why I need to do this course and get my qualifictaion.Once I move I will be happy to even work part time just to make ends meet.The council I am with now has a rent incentive scheme and they offer to pay 4 weeks rent incentive to the landlord so its not really like a deposit but just to cover until housing benefit gets sorted out so then when housing benefit pay it will be ahead.I dont want ppl to think Im a lazy scrounger, far from it.But since I gave birth to my son I have really suffered from my ex's violence and it took me a while to get away from him and get over his abuse.I am trying to better our lives for the sake of my son as I want him to grow up and be proud of me and say my mummy is a teacher coz that is what I want to be.I suppose we all have to start from the bottom and I am lucky I got a place on the course.
I dont care what a property looks like from the outside, I can make it home in the inside but this is no place to live.
The landlord thinks he wont have to get the front door changed but even If I move the council still has a duty of care there for they will staill makehim change it.Thanks again hun for your kind words.