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

[Mammabear8120]

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?

I criticised the OP for what she said about refugees and I stand by it.

However, as very few politicians either side of the Atlantic ever realise (or care) when people who are in uncertain housing and/or employment with few resources to call on, they look for scapegoats and that is very often the people they see as "other". They don't put the blame where it really lies, starting with the Tories invidious policies in the early 80s, where the best of the public housing stock was sold off cheap and not replaced. So many factors, but it is easier to blame an identifiable if somewhat nebulous group, erroneously, for the problems they are facing. History attests to this. Germany in the 30s attests to this, as does the Rust Belt in 2016, who (disastrously) elected Trump because they didn't feel listened to by anyone else and he conned them that he did.

It is surely better and more productive to try to help the OP calm down and get real support and advice rather than continue kicking her after she has apologised.

Very sad for u however I don't really think there's anything you can do as long as he's doing everything by the book in terms of selling.

@CPL593H

I criticised the OP for what she said about refugees and I stand by it.

However, as very few politicians either side of the Atlantic ever realise (or care) when people who are in uncertain housing and/or employment with few resources to call on, they look for scapegoats and that is very often the people they see as "other". They don't put the blame where it really lies, starting with the Tories invidious policies in the early 80s, where the best of the public housing stock was sold off cheap and not replaced. So many factors, but it is easier to blame an identifiable if somewhat nebulous group, erroneously, for the problems they are facing. History attests to this. Germany in the 30s attests to this, as does the Rust Belt in 2016, who (disastrously) elected Trump because they didn't feel listened to by anyone else and he conned them that he did.

It is surely better and more productive to try to help the OP calm down and get real support and advice rather than continue kicking her after she has apologised.

im in no doubt the blame lies with the tories , but sadly when you have a goverment that does nothing to limit numbers of economic migrants coming accross from dover that then need housing and now of course we are taking in ukrainian refugees , the pressure goes onto councils to accomodate them all and of course it will lead to a them and us situation when it comes to whos getting housed and who isnt

As long as you are given proper ,adequate and legal notice, it's irrelevant who your landlord sells to. It's also irrelevant what the new buyer does with it. He can open a brothel ,you'd still need to be out. Ofc he would get arrested by the police and shut down, but your rights or the legality of your eviction do not depend on his intentions.

This is why the refugees are irrelevant. That is why you being British is irrelevant. Get in touch with Shelter and ask them for advice. Get onto your local housing authority with all your paperwork and tell them you have children and are being made homeless. Involve your kids' HV as well as any school/nursery staff if they go to any. Let everyone know what is happening and ask for help/support with being made homeless.

It was meant to be sold as an investment property with me as a sitting tenant.

Do you have this in writing? Is that still the case? Has the landlord confirm this and have you seen the paperwork?

This could be the only avenue you could possibly pursue.

hopefully you might be a bit corrected now ,but i doubt it

Corrected on what? The fact there are thousands of racist people in the uk? I think we are well aware of that thanks

@ldontWanna

It was meant to be sold as an investment property with me as a sitting tenant.

Do you have this in writing? Is that still the case? Has the landlord confirm this and have you seen the paperwork?

This could be the only avenue you could possibly pursue.

It’s not an avenue to pursue. The only thing relevant is whether the landlord has served notice correctly. If he has the OP will eventually have to leave. If he hasn’t she can stay put until he does and a court enforces it.

The OP has been told this many times, but wants to claim she hasn’t had advice as no one is indulging the story about refugees or inventing laws that would be relevant in that situation.

@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.

I'm going to guess that you're posting this with a secure roof over your head.

I've no idea why OP jumped to assuming it's refugees.

Because apparently someone told her that this was his plan.

@Toomanyradishes

hopefully you might be a bit corrected now ,but i doubt it

Corrected on what? The fact there are thousands of racist people in the uk? I think we are well aware of that thanks

and how is it racist though to ask if refugees and migrants should be given priority over people who are uk citizens , ? essentially that was kind of the gist of what the op was getting at really ,

@Softleftpowerstance she hasn't claimed that at all. She just asked for advice.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for to everyone that has contributed. We are closing this thread now as it does not seem to be going well. OP, we are closing as opposed to deleting it so you can still access the posts for any helpful advice received, however do get in touch if you'd like something different.