I'd like to evict a tennant and sell?

[tight fart]

Purchased a house back in 2005 with the intention of moving in, it never happened so we ended up
unintentional landlords and letting the place. the current tennants have been there 4 years, not the best
tennants but the "cheap" rent is up to date.
I'd like to retire, to do so I would need to sell.
Is there a way of moving them out, I'd be happy to give 6 months notice so they had time to sort out a new place.
I'm not the sort to get involved with solictors if it could be in any way avoided.

[leemanning]

As always with these things, what does the tenancy agreement say?

[alistair1234]

tight fart said:

Purchased a house back in 2005 with the intention of moving in, it never happened so we ended up
unintentional landlords and letting the place. the current tennants have been there 4 years, not the best
tennants but the "cheap" rent is up to date.
I'd like to retire, to do so I would need to sell.
Is there a way of moving them out, I'd be happy to give 6 months notice so they had time to sort out a new place.
I'm not the sort to get involved with solictors if it could be in any way avoided.

Why not approach the estate agent and ask if they have any landlords that want to buy with a sitting tenant? Your tenant gets to stay and you don't have to mess about with any legal issues or the tenant playing hard ball.

The estate agent probably knows already which of their lettings clients are looking to purchase new stock and with a tenant already there is the dream sale.

[superlightr]

tight fart said:

Purchased a house back in 2005 with the intention of moving in, it never happened so we ended up
unintentional landlords and letting the place. the current tennants have been there 4 years, not the best
tennants but the "cheap" rent is up to date.
I'd like to retire, to do so I would need to sell.
Is there a way of moving them out, I'd be happy to give 6 months notice so they had time to sort out a new place.
I'm not the sort to get involved with solictors if it could be in any way avoided.

Hope you have your paperwork in order but if you get basic things like "tennant" wrong and that you would be "happy" to give the tenant 6 months notice when the legal minimum is 6 months then I would bet you have other aspects more serious that are incorrect which may cost you.

Are you a DIY landlord or did you have some sense to use a Letting Agent?

Happy to try and help -
You will need to list a chronology of all main events ie start/deposit/registration/notices served etc/

Can you list what paperwork do you have signed by the tenants?
Can you list what paperwork has been issued to the tenants and the dates?

Are the tenants claiming housing benefit/universal credit? or are they in full time work paying the rent in full?

Edited by superlightr on Monday 18th January 11:37

Edited by superlightr on Monday 18th January 16:44

[tight fart]

I can only apologise for my spell check.

But is the landlord wanting to sell (so he can retire) a valid reason?
If not the rest is a moot point.

[Muzzer79]

leemanning said:

As always with these things, what does the tenancy agreement say?

This.

You do have a tenancy agreement........right?

[superlightr]

tight fart said:

I can only apologise for my spell check.

But is the landlord wanting to sell (so he can retire) a valid reason?
If not the rest is a moot point.

forget the spelling - its just an indicator that you are a DIY LL and may be in the mire. Im trying to see if you are up the creek.


a valid reason - eh? being blunt but you clearly dont know what you are doing by asking that. -

if you do want some free help post a reply to the questions already asked - unless you give the basic info of what you have and what the tenants have its going to be an unsolved mystery.

Edited by superlightr on Monday 18th January 16:34

[GliderRider]

We rented a house and after a couple of years were then asked by the letting agent if an estate agent could value the property. We asked why, and they said the owner was getting divorced and wanted to sell. We asked via the agent if we could buy the place and that's what we did.

It was win/win, as the owner got an easy sale and we didn't have to move.


At another place I rented; weekday lodgings when working away, I was in the drive one evening working on the car, when a chap pulled up and asked, "Is this the place that's for sale?"

'Not to my knowledge', I replied. At which point the chap pulled his phone out, the first one I had ever seen with internet, and showed me the picture. He was right!

When I phoned the landlord, his response was, 'Oh yes, I meant to tell you about that...'.

Edited by GliderRider on Tuesday 19th January 02:08

[alistair1234]

tight fart said:

I can only apologise for my spell check.

But is the landlord wanting to sell (so he can retire) a valid reason?
If not the rest is a moot point.

Find some estate agents, ask them if they have landlords that want to buy a property with sitting tenants (clue, there will be lots).

You don't have to worry about evicting your tenant and you won't be in a chain.

[crofty1984]

alistair1234 said:

tight fart said:

I can only apologise for my spell check.

But is the landlord wanting to sell (so he can retire) a valid reason?
If not the rest is a moot point.

Find some estate agents, ask them if they have landlords that want to buy a property with sitting tenants (clue, there will be lots).

You don't have to worry about evicting your tenant and you won't be in a chain.

That sounds like a good plan.