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I would be more worried that your landlord thinks he sees the top of a curve and is planning to sell...
Tony | 11.10.14 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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Ditto. Hmmm, for some reason I thought you owned you place...
EskimoPie | 11.10.14 - 8:38 a.m. | #
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Is Jason a RICS surveyor? Mortgage valuations are carried out by proper surveyors and not lettings agents.
HoosierSands | Homepage | 11.10.14 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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Landlord thinking of selling then... Increments to rent levels generally don't require a revaluation visit.
B | 11.10.14 - 11:27 a.m. | #
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The less toxic (?) view might be that your landlord wants to raise further finance for another project by extending a current mortgage.
B | 11.10.14 - 11:28 a.m. | #
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...and of course may be looking for any clues to the possible fact that one may, given how the world is, be "sub-letting"? This is not to say anyone would or saying that anyone would think anyone would...
Working Class Hero | 11.10.14 - 12:15 p.m. | #
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Assume you are sure your landlord actually sent this fellow and that he wasn't just casing the place. I live in the US. Cautious types, we are. Guessing (hoping) you verified all this with your landlord before the visit.
Mary | 11.10.14 - 5:07 p.m. | #
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My Landlord's insurance policy states that I have to inspect the property every three months and keep a record of my doing so.
I suppose it is Elf and Safety at work, but it does mean that there are other reasons for an inspection now and again.
Don't worry!
Temp | 11.10.14 - 5:22 p.m. | #
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It's quite a coincidence, seeing this post - something very similar happened to me last month but it was bad news - the landlord was planning to sell.
Because we had a very good relationship, he gave me first refusal but as I could not afford to buy and the new owner wanted to move in, I had two months notice to vacate the property.
So, after a lot of searching, block viewing, panicking, packing and running around like a headless chicken, I finally moved to a new place on Tuseday.
I lived in Walthamstow and wanted to stay there, but I had a rude awakening with the rent increase in the area so now I am in Goodmayes, but it's a nice area as far as I know now.
So, I do hope and pray that you remain in Bow DG. Please let us know what happened.
| 11.10.14 - 7:20 p.m. | #
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I don't think wanting to sell a property is in itself a justification for a landlord to give a tenant notice, unless it's coming to the end of the tenancy anyway. If the tenant's in the middle of a tenacy they have security until it ends and should be transferred to the buyer along with the property.
There are lots of reasons why a landlord might want to value their property, but it would have been a courtesy to have told DG why they were doing it to avoid unecessary speculation and anxiety.
But if DG suddenly finds himself homeless in the next few weeks, we do have a flat in Bow he could move into!
ActonMan | 11.10.14 - 9:00 p.m. | #
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ActionMan: Usually after the first six months or year you get transferred to a rolling tenancy where the landlord only needs to give two months' notice, and without notice it continues indefinitely (so there's otherwise no such thing as "end of the tenancy"). So yes, the landlord would normally give you your two month notice and presumbly the sale would take longer than that, although as you say if not the tenancy would be transferred to the new own in principle.
Jim | 12.10.14 - 3:09 a.m. | #
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DG - are you the only person in London with a spare bedroom?
Messiah | 12.10.14 - 4:26 p.m. | #
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Hope it isn't anything serious. But at least you know London very well, so finding a new place would not be quite so daunting.
Steve | 13.10.14 - 8:14 a.m. | #
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Rather begs the question....why, all those years ago, didn't you buy?
Richard M | 14.10.14 - 10:01 p.m. | #
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