To find my landlords behaviour very intrusive!

[ThatPinkAnt]

So my 11 year old Dd and I got served with a section 21 no fault eviction back in June because they say they want to sell their property. We were given until mid August to move and were later served with court papers through which I stated my side of the story.During our 6 years stay in that flat,we were faced with months of no water or electricity and out landlord was very uncooperative.They only compensated me £127 pounds recently just to look good in the eyes of the court.They only just installed smoke and fire alarms, a new hot water cylinder inside our property right shortly before sending us the eviction notice.Prior to that,It was a nightmare just to get a plumber to come and fix our problems. I had to buy a heater for my Dds room because their ones would not last for some strange reason.Taps would not last and leak because the plumbers they sent us used secondhand taps and we live in an area of serious hard water.
We are not the only tenants this landlord is evicting, they are accused of extortion and are currently being investigated. Anyway onto my landlord's behaviour, we went into court a few weeks ago and agreed on the date we should be out before bailiffs. The judge said I could ask for some more time if needed.So now weeks down the line I receive in my post companies offering hire services to help us move, I have never contacted any of these companies. Then a week later one of the employees of my landlord sends me a text at around 5pm, asking me if they could send down an auctioneer to view the property the following day.Now to me this was rather shortnotice and I was not okey with it,so I kindly declined.Later I see a missed call from the so-called auctioneer,I did not call them back nor consented to my number being given out like that.Then yesterday, I receive an email from the landlord/lady claiming that she heard that we moved out last weekend and if I could please hand her the keys.I never told her or anybody such a thing and it really annoyed me.I have responded back to her asking where she got that info and that I find it rather creepy and intrusive.Anyway we do have a new property lined up for end of January and I was going to ask for some more time as the tenant in there is vacating in the beginning of January, but judging by my landlord/lady's behaviour I don't see it happening. Their behaviour is really ruining my Christmas.

On the flip side of this I got a section 21 notice in July to be out by Oct, I informed the council I was about to become homeless with 3 children and the homeless prevention officer told me although I didn't need to leave at the end of my section 21, if it had been taken to court I could of incured a ccj and also court costs past onto me.
They can offer you tempory accommodation to prevent this from happening on the date your section 21 ends.

Crikey, no wonder the rental market is so fecked up, how on earth can it be right that only a tenant or court can end a tenancy! and I say that as someone who rented for nearly 2 decades with a pretty lazy Landlord.

Have you got a bailiff date? If so the only thing you can do is apply to the court to suspend the warrant. It is unlikely to succeed as the maximum time the court can allow to vacate is 42 days from date of hearing.

It depends on the council. My council does not help not even temporary accommodation until the day you become homeless via bailiffs.. im in London.

But if she hadn’t then staying until they were evicted by the courts and bailiffs had turned up is the only way to be housed by the local council.

The problem is with certain landlords is they don’t understand or realise that this could happen.

The tenant might genuinely want to move out on the date given but if they have no where to go then they have to stay and put themselves and the landlord through this process

Blame the local authorities who make landlords and tenants do this in order for the tenant to become the responsibility of the local housing authority

Because landlords can’t just make people homeless without a bit of difficulty on their part. This is a good thing! If you go into the business of housing people for profit, it comes with responsibilities.