Advice on pulling out of house sale making new offer

[MiniHouse]

Hi,

We're in the process of buying a house with tenants for us to live in. We couldn't find anything else but tenants seemed ok with finding a new place. Now with 2 weeks to go tenants (with 2 kids plus dogs) haven't found a place, they last said they were considering a council house or another private rent and stopped engaging with the estate agent (although I happen to know their income is high and had thought that ruled them out of a council house). In the meantime we finally found another place we like too.

1. At what point do you assume if tenants haven't found a place now/aren't responding they just won't. The estate agent say they have no way of knowing now until their end if tenancy.
2. Can we offer on another property before withdrawing from this one? Or do we have to withdraw from the house we're buying first.

Thanks
Mh

Just withdraw, with two weeks to go they aren’t going anywhere.

I think you will have to evict them . Do u want that stress? Pull out now would be my advice

I think you can safely say now they’re not going anywhere. Will be weeks/months of an eviction process.

Yes you can make offers before you’ve withdrawn from the first. Be warned the different estate agents ime talk to each other and its likely the first agent will find out. however you have a very good reason formyour actions so dont take any grief from them.

I’m not sure you can just “consider” a council house and make it so! They’re not going anywhere. Pull out and offer on the new house and put this one out of your mind. The hassle of getting unwilling tenants out is absolutely not your problem and the vendor was mad not to get them out first.

This is why I don't think I'd consider trying to buy any house with tenants in situ. They're likely not leaving voluntarily OP and I wouldn't risk it either way based on rhe progress so far.

If you've seen somewhere else you like I would direct priorities towards that and chalk this up to a steep learning curve. I'd make an offer on the new property you've seen and would withdraw regardless from the old one, in all honesty.