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Landlord changed the locks

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LolaLolaLolas · 22/03/2022 19:00

I posted a thread back in October about my ex partner, he was the named tenant on the rental house and I was a permitted occupier.

Here is the original thread if you're interested

Urgent help needed, Permitted Occupier http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4391032-Urgent-help-needed-Permitted-Occupier

Since then I am still in the house, I have been looking for properties but also trying to convince the landlord to let me stay temporarily. I was told my ex had paid the rent up until the end of March, but also told that he had ended the tenancy. The landlord declined my offer and said he wanted to move back into the house on the 1st April.

On Friday 11th March I received an email from my ex's solicitor offering 50k to me if I moved out of the house by the 18th March. I explained that 7 days was unreasonable, and was there any movement on that date.

I never received a reply from her, I sent 2 subsequent emails during w/c 14th March. Again, no reply.

Yesterday morning I was at work and my ex turned up with a locksmith and they changed all the locks, the tenancy was over. I was not allowed any access to the house, not even to collect my cats and medication I need to take daily. . I called the police and they persuaded the landlord to to let me get some things.

All of my things are in that house. Everything I own. I have found an Airbnb locally which I would not have had to do if they had been open with me. No one said at any point that the locks would be changed. I had communicated that I had found a house.

I have been told to contact his solicitor to gain access through a third party and that removals would be arranged. But she is awful and won't discuss anything with me. No one will talk to me.

I really don't know what to do. My things are being held from me. I received nothing informing me about any date to move out other than the 31st March. I didn't decline the financial offer, they never responded. I am living in an Airbnb. My dog was tied up outside the house. My son's girlfriend was in the house when the men turned up. She was traumatised by it.

I don't know why my ex was there, if he had given up the tenancy. But the landlords dodgy mate was there locked in the house. They were all in on it together.

I don't know where I stand.

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boredasflowers · 28/03/2022 12:12

wow! this is incredible stuff, offered 50k or you demanded 50K to leave? as you hung on in there for a pretty long time after he pulled the rug. your sons girlfriend was traumatised? - so you were squatting in a house and putting your son and his girlfriend in a difficult position also by not informing them that they were also squatting. Bad parenting Shock you have a home to move into, move in and move on and let the landlord have his house back.

Noniebif · 28/03/2022 18:59

Can't tell you how much joy this thread has given me. Ex landlady. Owed. Know the answers to every question posed on here. Nice to see a well deserved handing of arse on a plate.

Whorehunter · 29/03/2022 17:51

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SantaHat · 29/03/2022 17:58

Ok… that was randomly specific Whorehunter!!!!

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FAQs · 29/03/2022 19:56

This is the third landlord you’ve had trouble with, one you accused of harassment after lying on your application to secure the tenancy, then lying to the next one who was alerted by the first one, and now this…

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