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We have been renting on our current address for nearly 5 years. We started our tenancy on the 11th of August and our rent goes out on the 11th of each month.
Landlord issued us with an A4 piece of paper, in March giving us 6weeks notice to leave, saying that our tenancy was due to expire on the 1st of June (have no idea where he got this date from) and he was being genourus because he only had to give us a month and had let us have a few extra weeks out of the goodness of his heart!! Since then he has issued another notice on another piece of A4 on the 15th of May giving us untill the 15th of July.
My questions are these:
1. Does he have to issue us with a proper notice to quit in a perscribed format under section 21 of the 1988 housing act, if so does this mean his A4 written letters which just ask us to leave by a set date are not valid.
2.Surely as assured short hold tennants we are entitled to 2 months notice anyway and this should run from the same dates that our rent is paid.
3. He is asking us to leave because he wnts to knock a hole in the wall to make his house bigger. This was not sipulated in the tenancy agreement that he would want the house back . Can we object!
Thank you to any one who can help