Landlord visit

[ohgrowup]

We've been renting a lovely house for the last 3 years and absolutely love it. It wasn't in perfect condition when we moved in, and it certainly isn't in great condition now that we've been living here with two toddlers who are 2 & 3!

Anyway, we have quarterly visits by the estate agents which I thought was weird at first but we're used to them now. The last one was a couple of weeks ago, and soon after they emailed to say the landlord wanted to visit?!

This has never happened before and the only two reasons I can think of why they would want to visit are:

1 - they want to sell
2 - they think the house is battered and want to have a word 🤣

I think reason 1 is more likely but DH thinks it's reason 2.

I have asked the estate agent if they know the nature of the visit but of course they've not replied.

Has anyone else had this?

I've not personally experienced this, but from my dealings with various Landlords (was a tenant for 20 years across a number of properties) I'd be inclined to think that they may want to do some work to the property.
Getting it ready to sell is a likely scenario. But could also just be that you have an excellent landlord who wants to take measures to ensure good maintenance.

I would push the agent though, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask what the visit is about. It is unusual, in my experience, for a landlord to visit a managed property themselves.

Yeah that's why I was thrown as we have a managing agent and have had no dealings with the landlord at all for the last 3 years. I guess we'll soon find out. Will definitely keep pushing the estate agents in the meantime though..