I live in a house with a separate flat in the basement. The house is four floors and the flat is just half of the basement, so our rent is a lot more than his. The LL wants to sell the house (as one obviously) - the sale has been rumbling on for a while, with two sales falling through. Towards the end of the last sale he gave my downstairs neighbour 2 months notice to leave on January 4th. I thought this was bad because the xmas period is not good for flat hunting. So he had a miserable Christmas and didn't find a flat. We didn't get given notice (because he doesn't want to lose our rent).
So, January 4th comes and goes, my neighbour is in a right state because he is 70, not in great health, has no internet access, hasn't found anywhere. He has packed up lots of his stuff but he is still there, having nowhere else to go. LL came to visit him with his DSIS and they 'find' him a potential flat online, he said he didn't like it and didn't want to move there. So they said, right, you've known for ages the house was being sold, you've had plenty of time and you're not willing to look at the options we show you. They started legal action to evict him and have told him he could end up paying 2k in legal fees and have his possessions repossessed. He is now walking around like a wreck.
Then the second sale fell through at the last minute (after he gave downstairs neighbour notice) and now the flat is on the open market (the previous two were off-market so no viewings). We have been suffering 8-10 viewings a week which I know we don't have to allow, but I did because we have always got on well with the LL, even though he didn't have the common decency to ask us if we minded or offer a rent discount.
We haven't been given notice and our rent day is the 24th, so we'll be here until April 24th. The LL and his sister are very wealthy, very young (24 and 26) and this man is very old and very poor. Does anyone not agree that they could let him know he has another month under the new circumstances and withdraw all the threats? His rent cheque was returned uncashed this month.
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my LL shouldn't evict my downstairs neighbour
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Grrmum · 31/01/2015 08:14
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