To tell them to fuck off!!

[Demisemi]

We were recently issued with a section 21 from our landlord via letting agents giving us 2 months to leave our home that we have been in for 10 years.

The past two months have put immense pressure on my DH and I to try and find a suitable house for us and our 3 children. We eventually found somewhere by pure luck.

We are moving next week and had a phone call from our letting agents to say the landlord is now removing the property for sale, will be putting the property back up to rent and when would we be available tomorrow and over the weekend to let tenants have a look around.

I looked on the website and they've the letting price up at £90 more than what we currently pay!

AIBU to tell them to fuck off? I am so bloody angry!!!!!!

Check your lease and see if there is a clause about giving you notice before entering the property. Is there such an organisation you can report this to?

No clause in a contract can override a law and the law gives a tenant the right to peaceful occupation

There are organisations you can report agents to it depends which they are registered with. They MUST be registered

However, they have not yet entered the OPs home, They have asked and presumably been told no. So that should be the end of it!

I'm a LL but my property is in France. What has struck me is how much better the legal protections are for tenants there, compared to the UK, specifically England.

OP, extend them the same courtesy as they have you. Fuck them.

@HillyMilly plenty of people on this thread do know the law and yes, that clause is illegal...

Thanks that's useful to know in case I am ever put into that position again. It really is very stressful to have a constant stream of strangers in your home, especially when its a difficult time for you.

These days I value nothing more in a landlord than one that just leaves you be

So they're getting rid of a good tenant who always paid on time, risking a long period of the property sitting empty, paying for inevitable wear and tear repairs that the house will need, paying all the costs associated with finding new tenants and rolling the dice on the new tenants being good payers and not trashing the place - all for an extra £90 a month?

Either they have awful business sense or there's a big piece of the story missing here!

I know someone who was annoyed with their LL selling and they pretended to be really co operative about showing people around the flat. Then they told everyone the place was haunted and it was their speciality and they had another haunted place to move on to. Lots of grisly tales about furniture being moved and the sheets being pulled off them in the night. It still hadn't been rented by the time he moved on.

I also know someone who was very friendly with their upstairs neighbour and during every viewing they went upstairs and stamped around loudly and slammed doors and shouted. They had refused to pay very large rent increase so were very miffed. Again the place hadn't been rented before they moved on.

The story is that the LL's original intent was to sell the property. This is why the tenants were served notice.

You have no need to do this.

OP, do you have a good relationship with the landlord and have you had any previous discussions about a rent increase?

Do you know why they didn't just ask you to pay the additional rent? It makes no sense to me that they didn't, if you're good tenants as you say.

OP are you in Scotland? I’m pretty certain any leases signed since last year- it is illegal for a LL to ask you to leave unless they are moving back in or selling the property

When we were served the section 21 we were told it was because the landlord was selling. We asked if we could stay till after Xmas and they said no landlord needs to sell quickly.

Within the 2 months they gave us to leave they didn't come round to take photos, the property wasn't marketed on the websites.

Then suddenly a week before we leave the LL has changed his mind and the house has gone back up £90 more.

We had rent increases every year but because we have been here so long it was never inline with current rental properties.

I've never met the landlord it has always been done through the EA.

As well as photographing all
Fixtures/fittings/walls, photograph your gas/electric/water meters too

It doesn't actually matter why the OP needs to leave, whether they really did want to sell, whether they hated the OP because they fancied her / her husband, whether OP reminded the landlord of a kid who bullied them at school, or whether OP was a shocking tenant who never cleaned and used to sit in her front garden flicking bogies at passerbys.

That is irrelevant.

What matters is that legally if OP does not want people entering her house until she leaves, she does not have to give permission.

Wondering about whether half a story is missing is pointless IMO