Rant time

Wow, have you consulted your contract?

yeah kip, even though we had an agreement it would long term, letting agents only draw up 12 month contracts. we just expected it would be renewed as agreed before we took house on.
the house was a wreck and we agreed we would sort it on condition it would be long term.
we have done the whole house up, marc only finished the last room a week ago
so bloody frustrating that people can do this and get away with it.
i only found out on a chance call to letting agent about something else, i happened to ask about the renewal, to be told oh hes not renewing it!
to say we are angry is an understatement.
to add insult to injury, marc posted a wanted ad on gumtree for house, had email from a guy says i have just what u need, another email he sent photos etc, looked ideal.
marc emailed him and asked to view it, he replied with 'to view my property i want to know u can afford it, please deposit

Oh blimey, bad news Trena

Sounds like you've been well stitched up! Hope you get things sorted .

A verbal agreement is still binding, can you not seek some advice on this, even a compensation, as a landlord it is his legal responsibility to do the house up (beyond cosmetics) I would argue from the side that he knew you were going to do it up for him, and went in knowing this, so has used you as tenants to improve his own property. I will send you a PM, something has just occurred to me!

Has rent prices gone up in your area? Have you asked him/her why? As I landlord I know I would generally prefer a good tenant who pays on time for little less money.

we have been trying since before xmas to get him to fix the boiler.... spent the majority of the winter with no heating, to the extent that our daughter had to move out with her disabled baby because of it.
we think its because we have been complaining about the heating, the letting agents will not tell us anything other than 'he's decided he wants his house back' and the landlord himself is out of the country indefinately.

Then I have to say you have a bad landlord. I would just find yourself a descent house and lanlord. It clearly seems like he doesn't want to fix the issues.

Seems like a bad landlord to me.

Take some proper legal advice and make sure that you get everything you're netitled to. It can be a bit of a nightmare scenario I'm afraid.

There are some specialist companies that act on this kind of thing and some do it for free. I used these guys Recover your landlord deposit claim back your deposit

Didn't cost me a penny.

VM

i dont think getting my deposit back will be an issue , as far as im aware the letting agent deposited in under the deposit protection scheme.
the pain is having to raise a deposit and rent in advance for another property while waiting god knows how long for the other one to be returned, 4 weeks notice that you're going to need nearly 2 grand just isnt good enough, unless you a high flyer and have thousands behind you in the bank, but in that case would you be renting anyway?

oh well catch you later all, another day of business on hold while we go house hunting. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr