CF landlady or AIBU?

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Hi all,

I am prepared that I may be being unreasonable here due to various history between the landlady and myself. (It was agreed that I was buying the house from them privately, they recently changed their mind without telling me and now are not selling but I have lost over £3000 & chance to buy my "home" as a result of this late withdrawal)

So I have lived here c.2yrs & my property is fully managed by letting agents. I have two inspections per year as stated in my contract, with the letting agents. My landlady lives close by.

My landlady is now pestering me to have access into the house so she can "look around". I am really not happy with this. This is not as a result of any repairs required, nor is it in place of the official "inspections" that the agent will be doing. It is literally to just "have a look inside".

My landlady is very nosey and has form for knowing every single detail of what I'm doing in the house, watching my movements and recalling better than myself what I have been up to so I already feel "inspected" enough by her.

Whilst I am always friendly and cordial, the house sale debacle has obv left a really bad taste in the mouth (aka livid) but I haven't been angry, made a fuss or said anything about it as there is no point.

I really feel like ringing the agents and saying that I'm not comfortable with her just coming in. I really do not want her to come in right now. I just don't. (Childish? Perhaps)

As far as I can see legally, her wanting to "have a nose around" doesn't fall under her 24hr notice access rights as a landlord, I'll still have the inspections etc and whilst I will probably just let her in I want to know if I am being unreasonable (judgement marred) in how strongly I am feeling about this.

Aibu?

You might find the agents would be very interested to hear that she was planning to sell to you privately, landlords usually have to pay a big fee to the agents if they sell to tenants.

Look at the Shelter website for advice on tenants rights.

as 3 pages ago - epc? smoke alarms? gas safe if gas? how to rent?

I am Canadian but I suspect with this issue landlord attending a rental is t much different. I can not go into my tenants suite unless absolute emergency ie fire, water leak, etc without 24 hrs notice. Otherwise it’s 24 written notice or I get their permission. We have a good working relationship and I don’t as a whole do inspections and don’t go inside outside of work needing be done or the occasional chat about things. They do live below me and I can hear/see somewhat how they live but I cannot imagine how uncomfortable it would be if I was continuovisiting to have a peek at what they were eating and how they were living.

I would go bonkers as I have my own life and so would they! She needs to get a life!

You are in your own right without the sale issues involved. The damp issues are also intolerable. Here the tenants could apply for inhabitable location and depending on what the Tenancy Board decided you could either get accommodation paid for while it was repaired or really reduced rent while it was repaired.

Sounds like shite all the way around. Good luck!