The Landlady: Slight change of plan

So Barry got a phone call from the Landlady this morning. Good news, bad news. The Good news is she doesnt want us out in February, the bad news is she wants to now sell the property with us sitting in it. This could work out better for us because if the house takes a long time to sell, we get to stay here even longer than next August. The new landlord could take over and want to keep us on as renters and this would mean we could stay here for years if need be.

The bad news is the house could sell really quickly, and the new landlord wants us out. Either way we are not going to be leaving in February as first thought and we can stay at the very least until the house sells. This could take between 3 - 6 months. Especially when all the legal paperwork is drawn up. If the new landlord took us on as tenants we could stay for a very long time, so I suppose this way gives us the best chance of actually staying here at all. Besides this house is old, on a busy road, and it has damp and mould problems, plus it comes with tenants already renting. It doesn't seem that appealing when it comes down to it.

Either way we get to stay past February which is when our tenancy originally ends. I guess from there on in we would switch to a rolling tenancy until a buyer is found. Then its up to the new landlord whether they keep us on or kick us out. Hopefully they will keep us on and things will be fine, but if they kick us out they have to give us a section 21 eviction notice and then we have to follow those rules to then be housed by the council. Under no circumstance should you just walk out of a property, this would be putting yourself intentionally homeless. You have to stay until the bailiffs come and they give you the correct paperwork to go to the council for emergency housing. Hopefully it will never come to that, however its good to know my rights should the worst happen.

The Shelter website has been a godsend. They give you all your rights in one place when it comes to housing. They also have a very busy helpline and live chat. All their articles however are straight forward to follow and you can easily work out what you need to do to prevent homelessness or what to do should you find yourself in that situation.

I don't know what will happen to us, fingers crossed the new landlord takes us on and we have many more years here, without extortionate rent too!

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