house rental question

by scrwm Wed Jun 05, 2019 3:21 pm

My rental expires on Sunday, the house house we wanted to move into cancelled yesterday and now we need a new place.
The agent we rent from has already done their end (termination) of lease notice of course which they are obliged to do.
In case I cannot get into a new place next week, what are my options...

- beg the current landlord for more time, we can pay him for another few weeks or to the end of June. he is all planned to move in on Sunday!

- pack up and live in the car / hotel?

my heads literally spinning right now and my missus is in tears.
what a mess.

by **Lopsum** Wed Jun 05, 2019 3:29 pm

first thing i would do is explain the new situation to your current landlord and see if they will keep you there on a month by month basis or something till you find somewhere else.

by flyingfish Wed Jun 05, 2019 3:57 pm

Agree. Preferably talk to the landlord, not to their agent. There's a reasonable chance they don't have another tenant moving in right away. I hesitate to add, but assuming you're in the UK the landlord can't actually force you out without jumping through a few more hoops which all takes time. You could also talk to the council housing department to see if they can offer emergency accommodation if the worst comes to the worst.

by scrwm Wed Jun 05, 2019 4:07 pm

Thanks guys, we will have a chat with him in the morning he was tied up when we tried to call him this afternoon. I hope he lets us stay on a few weeks
House moves are so stressful in the uk. its madness.

by **assassin** Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:19 pm

You could also look at a week by week basis with the landlord for a fixed period or until the property is rented out again.

by handle Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:40 pm

The termination of lease notice merely indicates when a rent/lease can end and not when it does. If you have not agreed to leave the landlord may well have to go down the serving a s21 route and that requires 2 months notice PLUS service days (usually 3 for good measure)

As stated above already the tenancy continues on a periodic tenancy. You do not have to leave. I have not seen many evictions (even fast track) to be within 3 months.

There are ways to legally speed up the process but am not prepared to air publicly for obvious reasons.

Has your landlord given you a tenancy deposit certificate if you made a deposit at any time?

by scrwm Thu Jun 06, 2019 2:35 pm

@handle thanks, yes we have a deposit certificate. Very helpful post Smile

@assasin, am I glad you are still around i love your posts. Like you said we were very lucky to agree a one weeks extension, granted this morning. I am sure we can get sorted in the time he offered us. Otherwise we add one more week.

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