If your tenant had signed a years contract but you wanted to sell, when would you put it on the market?

[TheDayMyButtWentPsycho]

Say the 12 month contract ends in June, would you put the house on the market in March?

The last place we rented the lndlord suddenly needed to sell, she offered it to us but it really wasn't what we are looking to buy once we have stable work (cheap rental to help save as big a deposit by the time we get lover contracts). She then started to get demanding about viewings and getting preparatory work done so I said viewings would be fine but because there were firearms in the house we would have to be present and certain parts of the house unavailable to view. She backed off, we were pretty keen to move to be honest but it still took four months to pin the next place down and we took a financial hit to do that.

Give the tennent as much notice as possible, and accept the fact that even with the best will in the world they may not be out at the end of the contract.

Ah sorry, I thought you said you had inherited it!

Ending the contract early is something I would consider but something that DH really isn't up for at all.

Well he can't have his cake and eat it! He either sells with the tenant in place and takes the reduced sale value, or he sells without a tenant in place and misses out on possible rent income while the house is vacant. That applies regardless of when he sells.

We are really paying for it, having done it this way. He realises this now. He can't wait to sell the house
And yet he won’t entertain even the discussion or possibility of ending the tenancy early. That makes no sense whatsoever.

I'm a renter, and my previous landlady sold the house while I was in it, but because I was renting, it had to be sold as a buy to let. She wasn't allowed to sell it if I was kicked out.

I also told her I wasn't going to let people view it if I wasn't there, cos she was trying to push me into it. I put my foot down and said no. She had money problems, but I wasn't about to let her railroad me out of the house. I don't trust people not to pry and snoop. Fortunately, my current landlord came along and bought the house, and he's been an amazing landlord. She used to drag her heels with any problems I had, and tried to get out of fitting a new boiler in winter when the old one died. It happened as the sale was going through, and she was trying to fob me off. I kicked up a huge fuss and said if she didn't fit me a new boiler, I'd take it further. I got a new boiler. Two weeks of no hot water in the middle of winter.