To ask landlord if I pay the rent late?

[needtogobacktowork]

Hi, our rent is due today but we are a little short after paying an unexpected bill and also DH taking a week off work when the babies were ill to help look after them.

I have enough to pay it but it will leave us with nothing to live off for the next to weeks. Do you think it's a reasonable request if I ask to pay £100 less and catch up in 2 weeks when I get my maternity pay?

We have no previous rent arrears and have been in the property did over s year but he was also out landlord ar our last property so we have known him s while.

OP, your DP really needs to start prioritising being in work. It’s nice to have help when children are sick, but you can’t afford it!

I am a landlord and honestly although I'd have no choice but to accomodate it, all sorts of warning bells would be ringing in my head.

Just seen your update. Correct choice OP. I would be doing everything in my power to convince landlord to change those coin operated heat and electric things rather than asking for money favours. They eat money seriously, they are a fucking crime.

www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/energy/energy-supply/your-energy-meter/get-your-prepayment-meter-replaced-with-a-normal-meter/

Can you borrow the money off a family member, or a friend - certainly not ideal but sometimes, there are relationships where you can ask - and then do an online swap of either your account or your partner's where you get paid £100 to switch?

It should take a few days I think? You'd have to read up on it, but if all you are short is £100, I'd try to do something like that rather than flag up to my landlord any hint of financial difficulty.

Actually some people do choose to stay past notice expiry because they are disorganised or to be awkward. Source - was letting agent for 10 years.

These are people who don't need help from the council to relocate but for whatever reason just want a bit more time in the property.

I once had a landlady who was moving back home to the UK and wanted to have her wedding reception in her own house - she didn't give us enough time to factor in proceedings and the tenant simply wouldn't leave because she'd found a new job in London but it started a month later than the expiry of the s21. She simply refused to move elsewhere even though we offered her a very short term let in a nearby flat.

We issued proceedings but the hearing date was long after the wedding. Then the tenant moved out about 3 weeks later, so we had to withdraw the claim. Nothing the landlady could do except pay to have her wedding party elsewhere. You don't usually get your costs back either!

That was just one of many stories. Some overstayed by a night or two; others totally took the piss because they'd fucked up their own arrangements. Luckily most people do comply. But some don't!

So yes, local councils will absolutely tell tenants not to move without a court order. But don't forget that lots of tenants are just paying privately and relocating privately, and the council has nothing to do with their decisions!

“Nothing the landlady could do except pay to have her wedding party elsewhere. You don't usually get your costs back either! ”

Of course she could. She could have taken the tenant to court for the expenses she incurred as a direct result of them not complying with their tenancy agreement.

I don't think so - there was no breach. Landlords cannot end a tenancy and no one has to move out at section 21 expiry. You cannot assume a tenant will leave and I'm afraid landlady should have known that.

I'm glad that you didn't go ahead and ask the LL as I think it would have been incredibly cheeky to do so. Rent isn't an optional expense. You wouldn't go into Tesco and ask if you could pay £100 towards £200 worth of food next week would you?

“don't think so - there was no breach”

Yes you can assume because you both sign a contract agreeing on terms. If either of you break the terms of that contract, it’s not against law of course but you can pursue it as a civil case via courts. Just like you can with any contract.

MyFavouriteChameleon

Your comment is extremely ignorant. Nobody chooses voluntarily to stay in a place beyond the NTQ...they are told to do so by the council & all housing charities

It wasn't me that suggested people would want to do the bailiff route, as a choice, it was specialsubject:

Any tenant wanting to stay until the bailiffs for whatever reason - same.
I was pointing out that it was not something anyone should choose if they had any alternative!

I'm afraid people do. Not just because the council says so, although mostly . the legal costs are allegedly down to the tenant but it has to be enforced. Good luck with that.

Don't believe everything shelter say in their press releases.