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Telling your landlord you're pregnant...

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Mumtobe18 · 08/08/2017 16:10

Hi there. I am currently 15 weeks pregnant and I really like the flat I am currently renting. However I don't know if I have to inform my landlord that I am pregnant or not. My contract doesn't say anything about children. And my year contract will be just in time to be renewed the month before I am giving birth... I don't whant them to find out (if they visit the flat as they have the right to do) just before I am due and then they don't want to renew the contract for next year. What do you think I should do? Any opinions will be very much appreciated.

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peaceloveandbiscuits · 08/08/2017 18:38

Nope never told my landlord or estate agent.

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Mumtobe18 · 08/08/2017 18:52

Thank you very much for helping me.
I know they cannot kick me out of the house because I am pregnant... I am afraid that they will not renew my contract when I am heavily pregnant :( they might state a different reason just not to renew it...

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boopdoop · 08/08/2017 19:35

If you definitely want to stay there then it might be worth trying to renew the contract ahead of time, so that if there are any issues, you've got more time to find somewhere else?

DefinitelyMaybeBaby · 08/08/2017 19:38

I rent via a letting agency and when I told them I was pregnant they said we didn't have to tell them until the baby was 18 because then it counts as another occupant (hoping I might have bought my own place by then to be fair!)

MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 08/08/2017 19:40

I'm a landlord. It's really none of my business. For all I know my tenants have had two babies by now.

Ecureuil · 08/08/2017 19:44

I had both of my children while private renting, I never told the landlord or letting agents.

soapboxqueen · 08/08/2017 19:48

It doesn't really matter if other landlords are bothered or if other people ever had a problem. The point is we don't know how this landlord will react. We know some landlords are arseholes. This landlord could choose to not renew so the most obvious course of action is for the OP to check how the landlord feels ahead of time as the danger is of having to move at short notice. The second being to assume the contract will end and look for other accommodation.

Dede124 · 08/08/2017 20:01

Legally you don't have to

PonderLand · 08/08/2017 20:04

If the there isn't anything in the tenancy agreement about children then I think you'll be fine to tell your landlord, if he was that bothered he'd put it in the agreement. Our last rented property was no children so when we found out we were pregnant we moved at the end of the contract. We lived next door to him, I told him about the pregnancy when I was about 20 weeks and mentioned househunting too. If we didn't live next door I'd of never explained the reason for moving.

TriJo · 08/08/2017 23:30

13 weeks with #2 and we've never said anything to our landlord.

Orangebird69 · 08/08/2017 23:38

As a landlord, I wouldn't expect to be informed. As a tenant, it wouldn't occur to me to inform my landlord.

CocoLoco87 · 08/08/2017 23:42

We told Landlord out of courtesy that there would be a change in the number of people living in her house. She congratulated us and that was that.

MissEliza · 09/08/2017 12:19

As a tenant all you are obliged to do is pay your rent and take good care of the property. It would seem good manners to mention it though.
I'm a landlord and when we last rented out the property, we had two offers, one from a young couple and one from two guys. I went with the young couple. On moving in day, I was surprised to find the woman appeared to be heavily pregnant but I didn't want to put my foot in it in case she was very fat! I thought she couldn't be as I assumed the letting agents might have told us. Two weeks later she emailed us to say she'd just found out she was pregnant. . She gave birth a month later. I was a bit upset as I felt they'd deliberately deceived us. It wasn't a good start. She got pregnant again in six months so within 18 months there was a family of four living there.

DeannaTroika · 09/08/2017 12:48

I was a bit upset as I felt they'd deliberately deceived us

It wasn't your business to know at all.

WombatChocolate · 24/11/2019 20:33

My question about this (and I know it’s a zombie) is what if having a couple of children really makes the property too small for the number in it.

Ie what if a couple in a 1 bed flat have 2 or 3 kids whilst renting and don’t mention it - there are then 4 or 5 people in a 1 bedroom flat. Is it okay for LL not to know that? Is there a point beyond which LL can say openly there are too many people for property? I appreciate people may often struggle to afford somewhere bigger and being pregnant isn’t something a landlord needs to know about, but if a family grows substantially in a small flat, is it really still none of the LLs business?

brightbird · 24/11/2019 23:48

The landlord can choose to not renew the contract for any reason. They might not tell you the real reason but they can still choose to not renew it.

No; not legally. They cannot do that if they are discriminating over a protected characteristic. Pregnancy and maternity are protected under the equalities act - including the first 26 weeks after you give birth.
Might be tricky to prove, though I suppose if they won't renew and then immediately rent to someone else... But anyway, would you want to live in a place knowing the landlord is an arsehole?

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