Due to hand back rental we have departed on Friday, too sick to empty house, how to pay rent and how much?

[KievLoverTwo]

We gave notice around 8th Oct to leave on 15th Nov; on 12th Oct got keys to new house (hundreds of miles away), moved out straight away. Slowly been emptying the old house (5-10 hour round trips + packing, loading, unloading), due back one final time next week but the OH has now been very sick for four days and I just can't risk it. He was sick in September with similar symptoms and it lasted almost a month. Slightly different symptoms this time and other complaints also in the mix but he's basically been ill on and off since the day we picked up keys to the new place and done half a dozen journeys in amongst really struggling with copious amounts of pain. Oh - and I have M.E., so I've been fully loading, unloading and setting up home and shifting it all around on my own because he's been incapacitated. With M.E. Ha. Much fun. Anyway, the new symptoms aren't just pain. They're the sort that could cause him to black out at the wheel. And I don't drive. And I'm not physically capable of doing that journey on public transport. And there are no nearby friends to pack stuff up and send a man in a van. It's only one more van load - it's pretty frustrating.

I'm almost certainly going to end up taking this former landlord to court at some point in the future so I need whatever we do regarding rent to absolutely on the straight and narrow. Rent needs to be paid in advance, it's usually paid on the 15th. So, if we can't clear out by Friday, is the legally correct thing to do to pay an entire month's rent, and advise the keys will be handed back 15th Dec?

I assume if I do that and we clear out in a fortnight, that's just our tough luck - we're not entitled to any of it back?

The house is not habitable for various reasons but that doesn't really matter, that's a whole other story. What matters most is that I keep my nose absolutely clean, even if I can't live in her house and I've been paying double rent and utilities for almost 5 weeks and have to keep on doing it. No doubt a court would say 'but rent was due for a month, not a fortnight, so you broke the terms of the lease' - right?

Of course, I'd prefer to pay her a week or a fortnight at a time, but I'd rather pay too much and suck it up and know she doesn't have a single thing on me legally than do the wrong thing (pay a week/fortnight at a time) and risk a court case failing.

Google is NOT my friend on this. Please advise if you have direct experience of this or know what the legal precedents are, thank you.

You can’t register someone else at a surgery. They need to bring in their paperwork and do it themselves. At least in the last 4 I’ve joined.

of course he could’ve registered himself in a month, but OP can’t control what he does can she?

Not seen that at all but I expect they will confirm if correct.

It’s because you’re ill that you needed to be more organised and more sensible.

You’re coming here for sympathy for problems caused not by illness but lack of planning and forethought.

when i say all over mumsnet

i mean hundreds of posts about the OP’s current experience of buying and completion

this

you can arrange to collect forms
both of you collect
both complete
drop back whilst out at about

my partner seriously ill for a month…. i’d have found the time to progress with surgery

If they’re still registered with the old surgery they can just book a telephone appt, on the day if necessary.

exactly

Crickey, learn to pay attention at the back! That'll be the three house purchases that FELL THROUGH and what I learned along the way and what I have been told by various legal people and brokers and suchlike.

This, in spades.

Provide a link to one then

Oh for goodness sake, what is wrong with people?

His illness had crossover symptoms with a lot of other things and we always thought it was going to go away. And then it did. Completely.

We spent two months on the road looking for a rental after our last house purchase went through.

Most of the time, there is no phone signal BECAUSE OF MOUNTAINS.

Our old GP surgery is 430 miles away.

He got better.

I'm done with this thread for now, I need to get on with stuff.

You should all be proud in how it's become an extreme exercise in nitpicking rather than actually helping though - standard mumsnet 90% of the time.

Thanks for those who have provided some genuinely useful ideas I was unaware of if physically incapacitated this week - they've really helped (even if that help is: less panic)

hands out lollipops

On the plus side you’ll know what to do next time.

3-4k?! Where are you moving from, the White House?

but this is a purchased property isn’t it? not a rental that you’re moving to. Certainly seems to be the case from dozens of very recent ones

either way op

having to keep your partner awake, blacking out a possibility, weeks of debilitating symptoms… but “no time” to register… says it all really as to why you’re in this position

Your poor landlord

**Most of the time, there is no phone signal BECAUSE OF MOUNTAINS.
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sensible place to move to when you have a serious disability and don’t drive and reliant on your partner, who himself seems to be very ill and at risk of not being able to drive

hands out lollipops

thank you

OP you type like you’re trying to hit the word count on a uni essay! So many words saying absolutely nothing.

2 ill/incapacitated adults, one with no license and one potentially ‘blacking out’ at the wheel, how was this ever going to work? Any normal person would have just foot the cost for a moving company and had this done weeks ago. And to then think you can just ‘pay another months rent’ and wonder can you get 2 weeks of it back if you clear out the house early!!

No, he hasn’t blacked out, but I have had to make concerted efforts to keep him awake after 2 hours of driving - then the trip takes double the time.

This is not safe!