AIBU to ask tenants to move before or after new baby?

[CatWithAPetDog]

We are landlords and have a property that our son would like to move into at some point in the next year. Our current tenants have a toddler and have just told me that they are expecting another baby in November.

If you were the tenant, would you prefer to have to move out whilst pregnant or with a young baby. I know it’s not great timing for them either way, but which would you say would be easier? We can wait a while as long as my son is moved in this time next year, but then they would have a toddler and six month old baby, so it may be easier to do it sooner with just a toddler?

They’ve been good tenants so I would like to cause them the least stress possible.

Sorry forgot to make boring make sense

YABU - Get them to move before the new baby arrives

YANBU - Get them to move after the new baby arrives

I voted YABU because she should give the tenants the option. Give them long informal notice now so that they can find somewhere suitable, and let them leave on a month or two notice when they find something, or give formal notice when approaching the deadline.

Besides, the wording of the two options "get them to move" just sounded disrespectful and was the clincher.

So your answer is before then, or YABU.

No you haven't. You've voted to give them notice to leave before the baby is born.

Agree that you should have the conversation now, tell them they can leave whenever they want, but have a long stop date which your formal notice will tie up with. If the pressure is off, they can hopefully find something they want rather than something that isn’t ideal but because they don’t have enough time.

I wasn’t being disrespectful at all. I realised I hadn’t made the voting options make sense so rushed to edit the post before people read my OP. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m very sensitive to this being their home and I’m trying to be as thoughtful to them as I can be.

I didn't think tenants could be given notice now.

No it's not.

i can't write it any more slowly.

They can for a few reasons, one being that a close family member needs the property.

They can if the landlord wants to sell or move in. I assume that moving an adult child in will count under the new legislation? OP you had better be sure

You said to leave it up to the tenants, which she can’t do if she tells them after the baby is born.

You think every tenant can now stay in a rental property for life??

Be sure of what?

You seem to be misunderstanding the difference between telling them
& actually moving.

That you have the law correctly understood. I assume you have.

Yeah sooner the better. Dealing with a move along with a newborn would be much worse than during pregnancy I think?

I’d definitely prefer to move when pregnant rather than with a newborn and older child. @CatWithAPetDog you sound like you’re being really considerate, I’m sure they’ll appreciate that.

Yes, I have and we’ll obviously be following the correct process,

Under the new laws I didn’t think you can just evict for no reason. I think you either have to be selling property or if has to an eviction based on damage/no rent.

You can just Google this, OP can evict for this reason

This

i hope you actually know how the new Renters Rights Act works - and that you have done everything necessary to comply with it.

I have been given notice while pregnant and with a small baby and neither was fantastic to be honest. My advice would be to tell them now that you would like to move your son in within the next year- youll obviously get to 2 or 4 months notice (whatever the new legal is) before june next year to confirm formal notice but give them time to start looking and prepare. As a renter all i really ask my landlords for is plenty of notice rather than feeling like the clock is ticking on a 2 month timer which passes in no time. (Neither of my notices were my fault either, once because they wanted to build a house in our garden and needed to pull hedging down before nesting season started and once because I complained the landlords dogs kept pooing on our front grass).

so wrong.

if they are good tenets, it just seems cruel to kick them out because your son wants (probably cheap) rent of his parents.

I’m not wrong? Evicting for a close family member to move in is a permitted reason

I’m saying it’s so wrong that it is allowed. I thought the rules were much tighter now to stop good tenants (and children) becoming homeless

a son wanting to move in to a house already occupied is not a good reason