Son of a B#*#h

We have been in our new rental property for 4 months now and our landlord has just informed us he is selling up. We have a fixed term lease for a year, and I know we don't have to move etc. What I am asking is;

He has offered to come to an arrangement to "buy" us out of our lease, what should we be asking for????? What would you ask for????

Most only offer to buy you out by offering to pay your moving costs etc. The most of I have heard of has been about $4,000.

Wow lucky you, we did not have a fixed term but are in the same situation, The open homes started today so the house had to be clean and tidy not that it isn't and we had to leave for the open home, we are just trying to negotiate cheaper rent for our last week for the inconvience we have found another rental but it's all the expense that goes with moving etc. Good luck

No how you feel we have only been here for 4 months totally sucks.

I know a really good property mangager who would prob help you with working out a figure or what you can ask for. PM for details, is you like.

I know someone who got a $35,000 payout when the landlord pulled out of the lease contract!

They'd only moved in two weeks earlier and then the landlord suddenly decided to sell, so he paid them out. I know this lady's husband haggled with the landlord a fair bit to get such a stunning lump sum!

This was last year and the house was in Greenlane, Auckland if that makes any difference.

nictoddie wrote: Jeepers that is a huge amount did they go and buy a house?!!!???

I was jsut thinking the samething.

He came over and offered us two weeks free rent!!!!! . The funny thing is my sister also rents from him and he offered her the same and she only has 6 weeks left on her lease. So we said no and he actually looked shocked. We told him we expected our moving costs at the very least to be covered.

So he said "I could just keep the house and tell you to move out in April" to which I said fine at least that gives us 8 months to save.

So at the moment he is trying to sell the house as leased but he's selling it himself so we have had two open homes and no one has come.

So at the moment it stands as this, he is selling with us in here, but we have told him we will let him out of the lease but he has to put a little more effort into it other than 2 weeks free rent.

We don't want heaps we just expect our moving costs to be covered we want extra to cover the extra bond (we only have two weeks in this place and most ask for 4) but he is apparently to tight to pay it so for now we stay.

Wow that is really tight, you can't say no to open homes I studied up on all of this when our property got put on the market if you go to the tenancy services website it states that if they give I think it is 48 hours notice prior to each open home, we moved 2 weeks ago and was the best thing we did, we had agents ringing us the weekend we were moving to show people through when the main agent knew full well we were moving but it was other agents from the real estate, we ended up moving two days earlier cos we were sick of it, and lost money but money well spent to be out ! Good luck and good on you for sticking to your guns, that's the down fall of having to rent as alot of landlords just don't care about the property/maintenance etc just want to get their money in every week!

Gosh that sucks aye!