So, it's a long story, I'll shorten it to catch you all up. I'm after some advice on how best to go forward but also just to have a bit of a moan.
We (F26, M27) rent, our landlord (M70s) is our next door neighbour (didn't know until we moved in). He's for all intents and purposes been a decent landlord. Very nosey but no trouble.
Few months back we asked to change to a smart meter rather than an old style key top up meter. It was eating through too ups & out dated. We wrote to our agency but never heard back. Left it. The agency aren't the greatest.
3 months later (making it seem totally unrelated) we received a section 21 eviction notice. (Non fault). We panicked, looked at places. When we calmed we approached the landlord personally saying hey... what's going on?
His assumption was the agency had said our electricity meter would put us into poverty (not the case) and he wanted us out of our tenancy to protect him and ourselves (3 sons under 5). The agency since haven't contacted us. Not issued any apology.
Things had been going well and we had decided to stay. Then we had a leaky pipe in the kitchen which we think was knocked by a paint can etc in the under sink cupboard where the valves are. Water everywhere, floor ruined. Landlord came to look with insurance surveyor (looked like his mate, but I don't know officially). We've heard nothing from the agency nor had further contact about the floor other than it being ripped up earlier this week. When landlord came to rip the floor boards up for its to dry out, he's gone in and taken the fittings from the pipes (that I bought) that connect my dishwasher. I was in the house helping him with the floor and he didn't think to ask me or have a conversation about taking the connecting parts. He's told my husband that he doesn't want our dishwasher refitted as he thinks that's the issue for the leak, he took my attachments & has taken them apart so that I cannot put them back on or connect my dishwasher. He didn't deny taking them, gave them to my husband and said "this floor is costing me £1600 to replace" - now if that was insurance, surely that isn't the excess? And we had already said we would pay the excess for the floor as it's part of our contract.
I feel suitably uncomfortable in my "home" - I feel like there are zero boundaries.
Am I being dramatic to want to leave, or am I within my rights? This has been a really stressful few weeks and it's not like the market is great to buy right now. Is this me being over sensitive or is he in the wrong??
Sorry it's a long one. Thank you for reading.