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Landlord selling my rented house to his friend and I think they're going to move refugees into it.

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Mammabear8120 · 14/04/2022 15:58

Is this legal? My landlord has suddenly decided to sell the house I've rented for 6 years to his friend. It was meant to be sold as an investment property with me as a sitting tenant. I had one couple view the property - and was told I had to be out by 20th May as he's selling it to his friend who came to view it. They've told me that the buyer is moving from down south to the north and wants to live in it himself. When he viewed it he walked through it like it was beneath him, barely looked at anything than a quick cursory glance across the rooms and didn't even go in the garden, look at the garden, didn't look or go in any of the bathrooms and just stuck his head in the 3 bedrooms. The buyer has lied to my landlord saying I'm running a business from ghe house which I've not been doing (just because I had a high chair in the kitchen which is for my granddaughter). He's booked a surveyor 2x to do a survey and the first time it was cancelled due to the surveyor having car trouble and the 2nd time the buyer cancelled it. The letting agency know nothing about what is happening and its been 2 weeks without hearing anything. I've no where to go and no money to even move. I've got on to the council but there's literally nothing to rent at all. My boss has slashed my hours at work so I'm going to be on half the hours I was on which means no private landlord will rent to me and I don't have a guarantor. I think the buyer wants me to move out so he can house refugees and have heard of people doing this recently in the UK. If I'm turfed out for refugees to then live innthe house where would I stand legally? I'm a full British citizen and have paid my full rent on time for 6 years, kept the house nice and improved on it with minor things. Can anyone advise me?

OP posts:
Viviennemary · 14/04/2022 18:25

They need to follow the correct procedure to evict you. But its really nothing to do with you what the owners plans for the house are. I sympathise though because you are losing your home.

Thestagshead · 14/04/2022 18:26

Op. Deep breath, your landlord can sell his house if he wishes he simoly needs to follow the legal eviction process.

What the new owner choses to do with the property is irrelevant. The previous owner or tennant does not get a say on what a new owner does, it’s none of their business.

You are being evicted as your landlord is selling. The new owner can then do as he pleases. He can leave it empty, house refuges, or have naked house parties and paint every room bright pink. His house. His choice.

You are not being evicted so your landlord can house refugees. And even if you were, as long as he follows the legal eviction process then he can do this. But he is not. He’s selling it. What the new owner does is not relevant.

I’m not sure why you are focused on refugees, honestly it’s irrelevant but the answer to your question is yes, as long as legal process is followed you can be evicted, the house sold and the new owner can house refugees or anyone else he chooses.

rosesarebluey · 14/04/2022 18:26

[quote Dairymilk50]@rosesarebluey Yes I have gathered but that is unfortunately is the risk you take, OP and many others when you live in private housing.

The Landlord is perfectly entitled to sell his own bloody house. The rest is irrelevant... and unhelpful to OP about refugees... and how she's British![/quote]
Yes we all know that is the risk you take but unfortunately for many there is no other choice.

Dairymilk50 · 14/04/2022 18:28

@rosesarebluey I agree. However like I stated though it's non of OPS business what her landlord does with his own house. It is HIS and starting a thread being racist indirectly is not on. People have gave advice to OP which she will know already ....

rosesarebluey · 14/04/2022 18:29

[quote Dairymilk50]@rosesarebluey I agree. However like I stated though it's non of OPS business what her landlord does with his own house. It is HIS and starting a thread being racist indirectly is not on. People have gave advice to OP which she will know already ....[/quote]
She wasn't being racist.
She was merely asking advice about what her legal stance was.

Dairymilk50 · 14/04/2022 18:32

@rosesarebluey why was she telling us she was British? For what purpose and relevance?

Did she think she takes priority? With her British passport. How can you be one sided.
Weather OPS landlord chooses to rent to a foreign person is non of her business to be Frank.

bellac11 · 14/04/2022 18:36

She was absolutely being racist and discriminatory, dont minimise it and enable those sorts of people

rosesarebluey · 14/04/2022 18:40

[quote Dairymilk50]@rosesarebluey why was she telling us she was British? For what purpose and relevance?

Did she think she takes priority? With her British passport. How can you be one sided.
Weather OPS landlord chooses to rent to a foreign person is non of her business to be Frank.[/quote]
She said she was British as she wanted to see if this helped her legally.
She didn't say she was better than anyone else.
She is a woman with young children about to be made homeless and potentially having to be made to move from the area that her family friends and children go to school in. Yet you seem to want to attack her.

Jjjayfee · 14/04/2022 18:41

If you are a sitting tenant, the house must be sold with your tenancy. If you have an assured freehold tenancy, you could be asked to move out so the house is sold with vacant possession. I haven't read the full thread so someone might have told you this

rosesarebluey · 14/04/2022 18:42

@bellac11

She was absolutely being racist and discriminatory, dont minimise it and enable those sorts of people
No she wasn't being racist. If you want to go down that route maybe xenophobic. But I don't think that was her intention. I think people just want to jump on this.
MyBottleOfRibena · 14/04/2022 18:43

Your racism is showing there OP

TheBatKeeper · 14/04/2022 18:45

The Daily Mail are going to love this.

rosesarebluey · 14/04/2022 18:47

@TheBatKeeper

The Daily Mail are going to love this.
Yes hopefully they can highlight how tough the private rental system is for poorer families.
bellac11 · 14/04/2022 18:47

People are jumping on it because that sort of language and presentation is socially unacceptable and people need to be corrected on it

Stop defending it.

rosesarebluey · 14/04/2022 18:48

@bellac11

People are jumping on it because that sort of language and presentation is socially unacceptable and people need to be corrected on it

Stop defending it.

I can defend what I like. I don't agree with what your saying. I think your main concern should be the fact that a woman and her children are going to be made homeless. A woman who has stated she is at breaking point. That's where your concern should be.
Dairymilk50 · 14/04/2022 18:51

@rosesarebluey give over. I know what I read. I started by offering suggestions. I commented on OPS superiority as it came across as racism. Please do not start playing victim on OPS behalf. Because when it comes to selling to a Eukerian she couldn't give a flying .

I am not arguing with you. I gave OP advise. I also agree with other posters. She was been offensive to foreign people. Weather someone is yellow or blue the point remains the same... the house is not hers and she knew this when she signed for it.

bellac11 · 14/04/2022 18:51

Being stressed and at breaking point does not give someone the right to be small minded and prejudiced and try to assert some sort of status over other people (full british citizen for example)

Stop defending it, this is why racism flourishes, you're normalising it.

Dairymilk50 · 14/04/2022 18:53

Others can also defend what they like. YOU do not get to decide what the "main priority" should be. Its not even your thread your simply giving input just like we all are entitled to do. The irony!

rosesarebluey · 14/04/2022 18:53

[quote Dairymilk50]**@rosesarebluey* give over. I know what I read. I started by offering suggestions. I commented on OPS superiority as it came across as racism. Please do not start playing victim on OPS behalf. Because when it comes to selling to a Eukerian she couldn't give a flying *.

I am not arguing with you. I gave OP advise. I also agree with other posters. She was been offensive to foreign people. Weather someone is yellow or blue the point remains the same... the house is not hers and she knew this when she signed for it.[/quote]
You give over. You are the only one acting superior.
Tell me about your housing situation? Are you in private rented with a young family?
The lady is at breaking point. She is about to me made homeless with 2 young children. All you are concerned about is calling her a racist. She hasn't been racist.

rosesarebluey · 14/04/2022 18:54

@Dairymilk50

Others can also defend what they like. YOU do not get to decide what the "main priority" should be. Its not even your thread your simply giving input just like we all are entitled to do. The irony!
It's not your thread either......
rosesarebluey · 14/04/2022 18:56

@bellac11

Being stressed and at breaking point does not give someone the right to be small minded and prejudiced and try to assert some sort of status over other people (full british citizen for example)

Stop defending it, this is why racism flourishes, you're normalising it.

She was stating she was a British citizen to see what her legal stance was.

I really hope she is okay. It must be an awful situation to be in.

Sortilege · 14/04/2022 19:00

@LovePoppy

Can you be in between full and not as a British citizen? Can you be half? A quarter?

@Mammabear8120 good luck finding a new place. But try to think about why you feel you are better than others

TBF, OP might have been born a “British Overseas Citizen” or similar, been delighted to become fully naturalised as a UK national, and under the impression that that strengthens her tenancy rights.

The only people I’ve ever heard mention their citizens yin conversation are people who were pleased to have acquired it.

OTOH, maybe she is a BNP type, as others on the thread have assumed. Who knows? Could be either scenario.

Siepie · 14/04/2022 19:00

@bellac11

Being stressed and at breaking point does not give someone the right to be small minded and prejudiced and try to assert some sort of status over other people (full british citizen for example)

Stop defending it, this is why racism flourishes, you're normalising it.

This. Stress (including homelessness when I was younger) never caused me to break out in a case of xenophobia.

I've no idea why OP jumped to assuming it's refugees. Unless your rent is extremely low, he would make a lot less money from housing refugees. It seems like a classic case of using foreigners as a scapegoat for British problems.

RedHelenB · 14/04/2022 19:08

@Mammabear8120

My children are 4 and 7 and my eldest is 22 with her own baby who has her own house
Is there room at your daughters temporarily if the worst happens and you get evicted beforee having anything else lined up??
rosesarebluey · 14/04/2022 19:17

@Siepie that's good. I don't think the stress has made the OP do that either.

Hopefully she will be able to find something in her area. Otherwise she will have to move away. Terrible situation to be in.

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