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In light of something Sue_W said on another thread, when landlords are having trouble with tennants, what's to stop them just booting them out on the grounds that they 'want to the sell the place'?
I ask because my brother was recently evicted from his house in Dorset for this reason, although he figured it was because he had disputed a proposed rent increase. Sure enough, within 2 weeks of him and his family clearing out, the house was back on the rental market for the price the landlord was wanting to increase it to.
'evicted' or just served the agreed period of notice stipulated in the contract?
I've had a place sold from under me, it was a shared house and there were a lot of minor repairs and upgrades we kept notifying the landlord about and he never actually got round to doing. Then suddenly they all got done in one week, the next week we got served our notice and a for sale sign went up 🙂
A landlord can tell a tenant to move on, doesn't make him right in law.
AFAIK it's a criminal offence (In Scotchland at least) to physically evict someone without an order of court.
The grounds on which you can get an eviction order in Scotland are also pretty limited - even wanting to sell the property isn't enough.
Nothing. there used to be security of tenure. No more. a landlord can give notice without reason.
Once the landlord has given notice legally then if the tenant refuses to go they can apply to the courts for an eviction which they will get. tenants out within a few weeks and nothing that can be done
Private Landlords=The scumbums of Capitalism
I'm a private landlord. Have had a few bad tenants over the years but the time has passed when i could trust tenants with their side of the deal so its all on paper now.Shame really .
Oops the last point in my post above is only relevant to really old tenancies (with security of tenure).
Unless the law has significantly changed in recent years in Scotland you can only evict without statutory grounds on the end of the lease.
Im a private landlord and it goes both ways .
Latest tennant got given a free double cooker . So took it upon himself to smash out the kitchen ( without asking ) and fit new oven .
Its a galley style kitchen . 12ft x 8ft , so no space for a double oven.
So when hes gone its another kitchen req'd.
20 years ago got offered a thousand quid to quit a flat i lived in, and then about 5 years ago, just got a note through the door of the workshop saying we had a month to move out, with no where else to go.
How things have changed.
Bad tennants and some even worse landlords, but usually the landlords lose out,as tennants deliberately damage the boiler or electrics,things that cost a lot to repair, and are difficult to prove they have been deliberately damaged.