landlords suck

So our landlord rang on friday and said they were salling the house - got a bit annoyed but we were planning on moving anyway. we have a fixed term until the end of Jan. Then yesterday a real esate agent turned up and asked us if a property inspection team could come through tomorow. we said that next week would be better - she was really nice about it, asked about open homes we said no and then she said well, lets see how we go and we'll try to avoid them. She was really nice and we were left feeling positive.

then this morning the landlord rings up demanding us to let him in this morning with the property inspection team. he said he only had to give us 24 hour notice - Lewis said well, we never got any notice. he reckons he sent a letter - of which we haven't received. Anyway, we "won" and no one is coming in today but from the guys demeanor, sounds like this is going to be a pain in the butt. we rang the real estate agent after that and complained to her and she is going to ring the landlord and tell him to "pull his head in". grrrr

yeah i sympathise...we have the best landlord ever and even then when he wanted to sell it was a pain in the ass.. he gave us 4 months notice but open homes were a pain in the ass and not knowing when we would actually move.. and because DH is a carpenter there was always something they wanted him to help fix..lol.. ! he even plastered a room for them! and that was without kids!!:(

Oh thats quite annoying. Our landlord has our house on the market at the moment too but they have been really cool about everything. We haven't had any open homes but have people through the house once a fortnight or so. It has been on the market since August

Yip some landlords are real pains in the backside. Our landlord is a rental company that deals with school houses for the MoE. We have had a few problems with the guy we deal with in regards to our stove, when we moved in it was missing a switch and every time I turned even an element on it would spark and make funny noises. In the end I was too scared to cook on it, but it still took the guy 3 weeks to send someone to fix it.

And reading you post has also reminded me that we have a property inspection on Thurs. They were considerate and gave us 3weeks notice. I sure the minimum is 48 hrs notice for property inspection and 24hrs if coming to fix repairs or something.

Oh my goodness sounds like a nightmere! Makes me so glad that our landlords rock!

I'm a landlord

I think if we ever come to sell one of our houses we'll wait until it's empty. I hate being in a house full of other peoples stuff. It might be my house but it is their home. It makes me feel like an ogre.

My advice to you is to make sure that you get any agreements in relation to inspections, open homes or any other viewings that you make in writing. Or alternatively try to come to an agreement where you can get out of the lease early and he can have his stupid open homes. At least it's coming into summer so you could go out for a picnic although if it were me I would want to be there if people were in my house. You are well within your rights to refuse open homes and the real estate agent is definitely going to try and push you because they want their money.

Back to my corner to suck now.

We recently went through this too.. i didnt even know our house was on the market and a real estate agent rang me up and asked if i could leave a key out for her while i was at work.. i was like um hello! i dont even know you and you ring me and ask me to leave a key out to my home??? Um no! But can i have your key.. didnt think so!
I had to put up with open homes EVERY saturday, 35 weeks pregnant and we HAD to leave.. she said in her works 'i would prefer if you were not there thanks'

nictoddie I was under the impression that you had to give written notice to the tenants if you wanted to have an open home otherwise they can refuse.

Either way it is summer time so it won't be quite so bad getting out of the house for a little bit. Open homes never go for more than an hour in any case. Still, make sure that you get things in writing.

I'd reconsider doing open homes at the standard time on Sunday. That way you can prepare for it all week instead of doing 'by appointments' which is nearly always on short notice. But yea, it sure is a pain.

Big hugs luvvy and I def believe karma will come round and kick said LL in the butt!!!