Need advice. Really upset by landlords behaviour

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In a 12 month fixed term agreement which runs out on 12th march and go into a month by month contract.
In the Summer (when my baby was 2 weeks old) I was advised the landlord is selling the property. I explained my situation and said not only will i find it difficult to accommodate viewings with a newborn but we are halfway through a fixed tenancy so he cant.
A week after xmas i get an email saying the property will now be put on the market and two months notice will be given after my fixed term runs out.
Im devastated as i love my home and my kids are in the local school not to mention i have a fitted kitchen and bedroom so will have to fork out for new.
Letting agents emailed last week. Said landlord will be coming on monday to take pics. I was away at the time and said its wasnt convenient.
Just received another email( 5.30pm today ) saying the landlord WILL be coming this monday morning at 10am bringing with him several agents and can i make the house presentable?
I responded saying Monday wasnt convenient (its my bday and ive planned a day out) but the next day was.
Ive just received a email back saying -

Sorry it's going to have to be Monday as it's all booked in with the agents. The landlord left it last week as you were away but cannot change it again.

The landlord wants to keep disturbance to a minimum and will work with you as much as possible but is only required to give you 24 hours notice to enter the property.

Surely i have to agree to this first??
Also if he sells the property do i (as i tenant) go with the sale?
Fed up of moving house every 3 years

Have you called the deposit schemes? The ll is required by law to provide you the information but it doesnt hurt to check on your own.

I should probably ring round but I'm not going to tell him . He's already failed to give me the Information

If you have never had details of the deposit scheme that is against the law and could work in your favour in negotiation. Technically you could claim 3x the amount. Might be worth taking advice from CAB and Shelter before deciding how to proceed.

If I tell him that all he needs to do is give me the info then it's done

No he has to do so within a specific period of the start of the tenancy. If it isn't protected at all he is in real trouble. It might just get you off the hook.

As LIZ says if he didn't put your money in a proper scheme, he's in trouble. IIRC he will have to pay you three times the amount of deposit as a fine, and still pay you the original deposit back, if you were to report him.

I'm not suggesting you do necessarily, but it puts you in a strong position, particularly regarding that last month free rent he changed his mind about.

england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/tenancy_deposits/tenancy_deposit_protection_schemes
You can check here if it is registered.

I believe that The ll has 30 days from the begining of the tenancy to register the deposit and give the details of the tenant.

I've been told by shelter it should of be done at the beginning of the fixed term and again when they ended the fixed term in March and changed the contract into periodic one.

Please ring shelter and stop asking for legal advice on this thread because there is a huge amount of misinformation here. You don't get 3x the amount. You have to take them to small claims court (at your expense) and a judge may reward you 1-3x the deposit amount. But there are steps the landlord can still take to put the deposit in a protection scheme (and incur a small fee/penalty) before then, so it's not like he had 30 days and is thereafter screwed and will owe you 3x the amount. Far from it.

Cross post. No, if a short term fixed turns into a rolling one, it's still the same contract conditions and you don't need to do anything to the deposit - shelter told you wrong and you can read that on any of the official websites for the deposit schemes. It's only for each new contract you sign.

They kept mentioning some case . Strike vs something . They were in the same position and won. It's call prescribed information

www.depositprotection.com/documents/superstrike-vs-rodrigues-guidance-on-implications.pdf

Completely different to you. That tenancy contract started before 2007.

From the other website you linked to
"You need to pay a fee to protect the tenant's deposit at the start of each new fixed-term AST agreement. The protection covers the duration of the tenancy and if your tenant continues onto a Statutory Periodic Tenancy (provided you inform us of the extension)."

www.mydeposits.co.uk/landlords/pricing

At the end of the AST, the landlord gets an email and ticks a checkbox from AST to SPT online.

I'm not being unreasonable to not want the letting agent in when I'm not there after everything am I ?

I don't think you are, no. And if someone told me they were definitely going to be entering my hime without permission and trespassing, I would be changing the lock barrels, even if it is for only a couple of weeks. If threats continued, I would log it with the police (because it takes at least one logged incident of a verbal threat for them to make a visit to the other person from my experience). But that's me and you need to assess the situation you're in. Is the landlord an actual threat and does it make you feel unsafe in your home or is he annoying you with his stubbornness even though you're in the right? Don't escalate a situation that may not warrant it.

It's not landlord it's the letting agent. He has no respect . I do not want him to enter my house without me . He said I have no choice as its in my tenancy. I have to let them me for viewings in the last month but found nothing about inspection s

To reiterate - the law overrides anything in the tenancy agreement. Spell it out to him. Again.

Locks have been changed . Council are on my side and will speak to him regarding harassment .
He's still threatening to come round. Thanks all for your advice