Evicted for the 2nd time in less than a year!

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AIBU to think this is just untenable?

Lsst landlord wanted to sell but did it really sneakily insisting we allowed viewings 4 months into a one year contract. We didn’t of course so were served with a Section 21 after 6 months.

We had to take current property last August (£500 month more than last place as nowhere else available). Now been served another Section 21 as landlord is not happy that we refused to pay for a professional gardener (his mate) which wasn’t in contract, or allow him to take the toilet seat that’s been in the property. This is revenge because he was unhappy about having to fix the shower and faulty dishwasher!

We are a large family and have loads of stuff. I can’t believe we’re having to pack up and move again!

AIBU to think that LL’s shouldn’t have the power to kick people out of their homes at whim and notice should be 6 months not two months?

Sorry, but I would have served you a notice too. You sound like a nightmare tenant.

As an erstwhile landlord who had the grim task of having to evict actual nightmare tenants, OP does not sound remotely like a nightmare.

MN honestly seems to mistake tenants for serfs in the UK.
We were in the middle east for a while and renting there was an absolute pleasure by comparison - large, professionally-run compounds where you were treated as a valued customer with large amounts of staff on hand right on site to do any maintenance required and beautiful communal facilities like a pool and a gym. No nonsense about references.

@SomeCatFromJapan That’s interesting, did you ever find out why references weren’t required where you were living? Was it to do with the local housing laws? If it was relatively easy to evict a tenant who didn’t pay their rent, for example, perhaps landlords weren’t too bothered about their rental history?

My BIL lives abroad (not the Middle East) and where he is, “forriners” have to pay every year’s rent upfront so there’s no issues with unpaid rent there, the landlord’s got it from day one!

@BruFord honestly it's a country where you can get sent to prison for having debt so I guess people didn't dare take the piss! The way it works is you write out and hand over twelve months worth of cheques and they are then cashed by the company on a monthly basis.

It's also all large professional companies that own and run the compounds/towers so you're never dealing with someone who is renting out their own former home/late mother's home etc that makes them weird about the property.

You sound very confrontational and difficult, the exact type of tenants landlords don't want. It sounds like the toilet seat request was a direct consequence of the broken shower and dishwasher. No-one really needs a posh loo seat, it wasn’t worth the fall out.