To be pissed off that we are being made to leave our home?

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Moved into a lovely little one bedroom house on my own in January. It's just big enough for me and my dog (who I have permission for). It's been a rough few years with some financial issues following a break up (ex left me with debt which I worked hard to clear) and some serious health issues. I was just feeling settled at last and just about got this place feeling like home.

Yesterday morning I got section 21 notice to leave.
I have paid rent on time every month. There have been no issues. Landlord just has told the agents that I'm not right for his house. That I'm too big a risk with my health issues (I stupidly told his partner when I bumped into her at a hospital appointment). I work full time and am coping well with my health issues at the moment. My credit rating is ok and I have paid on time every month.
He is also not happy with the fact that I am friends with my neighbour who he has had run ins with in the past. He kept the garage that comes with this house and is here lots pottering about in the garage.
He also is complaining that I haven't cut the grass for two weeks since he announced he didn't want to do it as he had verbally agreed to do when I took on house. I have no outdoor storage space for a lawnmower or strimer and he won't consent to me having a outdoor storage box. The garden is tiny.

The estate agents have been really apologetic and have told me they are not going to relist the house for let for him as they take a dim view on landlords treating tenants like this.

Aibu to be really confused, sad and pissed off at the way I am being treated? And to hope soon tenants will truly have better rights.

He sounds like an absolute idiot.

The new laws give protection if the ll needs or wants to sell, or move back into the house.

Use the fact the agents are annoyed and see if they can find you somewhere else OP. They know you've been a good tenant and they are bound to have other clients, hopefully one of them is looking for a tenant.

Op, could it be worth writing him a polite, formal letter today, explaining how sorry you are to leave such a suitable home for you and that you have just started to feel settled. That you have paid on time and you treat his house with great care? That you'd be happy to discuss any problems? Appealing to his better nature could well be worth a shot?

YANBU

The new laws give protection if the ll needs or wants to sell, or move back into the house

Not if they want someone out to the rent it

That’s really bad, but I think you will look back on this as a good thing. It’s not fair that you will have all the expense of moving when it’s not your fault but being rid of a bad Landlord will be worth it on the long run. There should be better rights for tenants.

On a side note I am a private renter and would hate my Landlord hanging round all the time, it’s an odd arrangement with him keeping the garage so you can’t use it.

@Oliversmumsarmy This is the OP's home we're talking about. Why should the landlord have the right to uproot someone solely because they want to rent it to someone else, especially when the reason behind that is discriminatory?

Not if they want someone out to the rent it

I assume you mean if they want someone out to put the rent up?

Well good. There are ways for the rent to be put up.

Good tenants who pay, who look after a house and who fulfil all of their obligations shouldn't be turfed out for no reason. The sooner many landlords realise that renting out property - even one - is a business arrangement and should be treated as such.

Tenants shouldn't be subjected to the whims of a landlord.

You have got at least two months to quit by law, up here in Scotland it is three months so stick to your rights and take the correct notice.

I'm sorry you're having to move again but tbh I think you'll thank your lucky stars in a few months when you're in a more stable place!
He sounds like an utter nightmare, so you're better off being far away from anything he owns.

yes i think you might be better off out of there.

Huge sympathy OP. It does suck. However this guy is clearly a C U next Tuesday so in the longer term you will be better off out of it. Hanging around like a bad smell in the garage? Twat. Have some

Is the deposit protected and did you receive all the prescribed information?

And check the date that the gas safety certificate was issued. If it wasn't done before the tenancy started, the landlord can't rely on S21. Thanks to Judge Luba, this applies throughout that tenancy, even if you get a new contract every year.

I can't believe the poster upthread thinks that the new laws (not yet in force and, I believe, still at the consultation stage) are too "pro-tenant" and don't give landlords "adequate protection against bad tenants". The changes proposed will still permit a landlord to gain possession if he wants to sell or rent to family.

Not allowing landlords to evict tenants who have done absolutely nothign wrong is hardly "pro-tenant" imo and landlords can issue S8 notices to tenants in arrears or otherwise in breach of the tenancy agreement. It will, however, prevent arsehole landlords like the OP's, who want her gone because she's friends with a neighbour he doesn't like, or DP's old landlord, who revelled in telling DP that he was evicting one of the other tenants because she had a black boyfriend.

I'm really sorry that PPs are having to go through this. Imo, a secure home is a pretty fundamental right in a civilised society and depriving someone of their home on a whim is brutal.

Gas certificate was done just before I moved in.

I spoke to landlord this morning and he just shrugged me off with a smirk and a little talk to the estate agents attitude. Says maybe he wants to move back in as he might be splitting with his partner - whom I then saw walking hand in hand down the street with