What's the longest anyone has waited for tenants to go? We're buying.

[alrightluv]

Vender has just reissued the section 21. Court next. Been going on since Feb. When we viewed tenants showed us round pointing out every little fault. Should have guessed then.
We're not desperate as still have our home. Plus other stuff going on. But curious to know if anyone has had similar? TIA

Just what I was going to say. It's their temporary home at best.

I feel sure that there is a lot of scaremongering online, for this very reason. The vast majority of private tenants are going to be renting on the private market in the future and won't benefit from hanging on until evicted.

If you live in it it's your home, that's what home means it's a place where you live, the clue is in the name

It's where they live that means it's their home.

It's not technically theirs though is it. They live there yes, but it's the landlords property

Araminta1003
Nice idea.
The only problem with this is that the institutional money is shy of taking on the housing market as the laws are biased in the tenants favour.
As others have stated gaining possession can take 10 months or longer. Who would invest in an enterprise with such a bad outcome? Bad tenants will laugh at the court action and spin it out as long as possible when not paying a penny in rent.
If it were a good investment then I'm sure that many 'money pots' would have been there years ago.
The only institutional investment in housing is in the student market where you are, to some extent, sure that the tenant is going to move on when the course ends
Private landlords do much to avoid the court process, I have given tenants £750 to vacate a house, as I know this is the cheapest and quickest route.

Fortunately the law doesn't make such a stark distinction. People are allowed a stable home even if they haven't been lucky enough to be in a position to buy.

It is their home legally which they pay for the privilege of, its not their building/land but it is their home.

It the same way you can buy a flat and even though you bought that unit you do not own the building and can only live there as long as its leased. Do you tell people who have bought flats thats its not their home?

Of course it's their home - they might not own it but it is their home.

Or do you think that people who can't afford to buy never get to have a home?

Rental laws state it is the persons home. Thankfully.

FWIW I don't think landlords should advertise a property for sale until tenants have left.

It's a shitty process for all involved, selling with tenants insitu.

But some landlords are more bothered about losing a month or two rent than making life easier for tenants and buyers.

I issued a Section 21 to tenants as we were selling (they knew we were selling in a couple of years when they moved in and I did tell remind them we were selling before issuing the section 21).
They did get shitty as they wanted to buy the house and tried to resist the sale, but did leave (slightly later than the date they should, but only by a few weeks).

I had told them when they viewed the property that the house was being sold to another family member in 2 years and we were only looking for tenants that were looking for a stop-gap rather than a long term home. Still got shitty about it, seemed to think they were more entitled to buy the house, even though it was my family home
and being sold to my brother.

They turned out to be horrible to deal with, but to be fair left the home in the same condition, no tent arrears and I didn't have to take them to court.

It was horrifically stressful though as my DB and his family were homeless for a while and missed school deadlines/starts but just to say it does work out and I'm sure many tenants leave after being issued a section 21 correctly.

The snobbery and distaste for 'renters' on this thread is pure MN all over.

I rent - I pay nearly £2K per month. My house (sorry not my house) is the most well maintained in the street and we had made lots of improvements that have increased the value for the LL. We're also the quietist by far.

When I moved in it was so filthy I cried. So filthy my puppy bought me a used tampon as a present.

But I'm scum apparently.

Where have I said they aren't allowed a stable home. Bloody hell.

I rented for most of my pissing life. I've been asked to leave before tenancy had ended due to the death of the landlord, I've been a HA tennant. I am just stating fact, that as a renter the property is not yours. Your home yes, but not yours.

In hindsight yes, I should have air BnB-ed the house as a holiday home as it was in a beautiful spot. But stupidly thought it would be less hassle (even though it was less money) to rent it short term and providing housing stock.
My tenants were moving from another side of the country and wanted to live in the area, get their kids into good schools and settle in before looking around for somewhere to buy, so I thought it was a naively win win.

I don't tell anyone anything. As I have already stated.

Looked around the house in March, the tenants told me they were expecting a baby (already had 4 between them) and needed to move out due to lack of space.

They were supposed to be gone by end of April and we arranged completion for end of May.

End of May came around and they were still refusing to go. I ended up staying with my parents and DH stayed with a friend, most of our stuff went to storage. By end of June I was getting pretty annoyed. Owner said they hadn't paid rent in months and couldn't get another rental due to their credit rating. In the end, I believe he had to give them a deposit so they could pay 6 months upfront on a property just in order to make them leave.

Once we'd moved in we had to spend a good few weeks speaking to all the people they owed money to (energy companies, council tax, store credit, the list went on and on) to prove they no longer lived here and stop the bailiffs coming round.

Can you explain what you mean when you say 2nd on the list? I understood people on the housing list had to bid for properties. Do you know what banding they’ve been given?

You are the tenant that op is talking about?

@EatCrow no idea just what the EA told us? Probably to keep us sweet. We aren't in a major rush but would be nice to be in for Christmas. If not then what will be will be.

@Tittyfilarious no I think they were giving their point of view? We haven't complained.

@MrsSunshine2b what a pain. Hope you're settled now.

@alrightluv ah I did wonder how they know it's because it said we are the tenants not we are tenants.

We are, we still get a lot of red letters through the door but the bailiffs have stopped coming at least! They also trashed quite a few things in the house before leaving and took some of the things listed on the inventory (curtain poles was quite annoying!), although to be quite honest nothing they did was worse than the "home improvements" attempted by the owners before letting it out.

@MrsSunshine2b that's good then. I just don't get the mindset of some people?

A lot of these situations could be avoided if the Council accepted the date on the eviction notice or the ending of a tenancy as proof of renters needing a home. To tell people to wait until bailiffs come is disgraceful. The renters are in limbo and the LL have to go through a long and expensive process. It is this kind of scenario that puts LL off renting to anyone on housing benefit .

@Soonenough it's all wrong.