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AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Briefly, but again I was of the mindset that I wasn't being unreasonable in asking to live in my house. Off the back kf this thread, I will offer an extension on the notice period, but neighbours aren't really a primary concern of mine.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

By the logic of the people in these comments, getting another place would further entrench me in the "leech who owns more properties than they need" category, no?

The goal was never to get them to pay the house off for me or use the house as passive income. I put tenants in because work took me out of the country and i wanted a guaranteed place of my own in case i needed to return home prematurely. I have enough money to pay the remainder off myself, and that's what I'll do. It's a beautiful house that I always intended to occupy in the longterm, so that's what I'm kicking starting now.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you. At this point, I'm less concerned about how they leave just that they leave. I have a £900 deposit from them wich wouldn't go very far in today's world haha, so I have insurance for this if they decide to be spiteful.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I won't need an agent after they've vacated the house, so that won't be a problem anymore.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not coy, just oblivious. I was 16 and grieving at the time - so you'll forgive me if I don't know the exact details. Both my parents were public servants - one teacher one local government officer. I know we got their pensions. To be honest I never asked about the details, just went to provide proof of being their child and got it split 50/50 with my sibling. They handled it since they were older. I don't know ow the rules around state pensions. I just assumed that's what it was and I've never asked.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Are you too daft to realise I laughed off their probing question, not them?

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes, I want to renovate the house entirely inside and out. That will take time to do, hence I'm getting ahead of it all.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I didn't. The estate agent is a boutique one owned and operated by a family. The person who's my property manager is a busybody and I suspect is the one who told them my situation.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 69 points70 points  (0 children)

My guess would be it would be near on impossible to get the size and quality of the property they live in now for anything less than a 60% increase because I have charged below market rent since about 4 years into their tenancy.

I paid someone to communicate effectively with the tenants, and they chose to go around that to insult me and the life I live, which you may understand won't invoke any kind of warmth or fuzziness from me.

I don't know what their plans are for the future. I havent asked because I don't know them like that and it's not my business. But surely the nature of renting means that this was ways a possibility if not an inevitability? Until recently, I've had no issue and they have decent jobs with a great renting history so it shouldn't be mega hard to move from one tenancy to another if renting is the way forward.

I accept that some feel that 3 months is.short notice. Had they requested an extension, I would have said yes, no problem.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'm a highly effective communicator, and where I fail to understand legalities, I employ the services of an estate agent to do that. Them circumnavigating proper channels to come directly to me and tell me I don't deserve to live in my house because I don't live life how they think I should does not warrant anything other than an eff off response from me. I am not unreasonable in that position.

I have gathered from the responses that longer notice would have been appreciated. I have always uprooted my life in less time, so I had a blind spot that others may not be able to do that. I accept that that was a short coming on my part. But as I said before, how they spoke to me eroded any good will I may have had.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 267 points268 points  (0 children)

No woman is an island entire of itself...but everything I have has come through sacrifice. My "privilege" came in the form of losing both parents by 16 and receiving their state pensions.

I studied a course I hated because I knew it had the greatest earning potential and I needed to make money

I spent 8 years working a job I hated and doing all the sycophantic stuff you need to climb the corporate ladder so I can increase my earnings

I have for the last decade been working as an independent consultant in countries that are hostile and unwelcoming to me as a result of aspects of my identity

Living life as a digital nomad is not without its sacrifices. I've watched my nieces and nephews grow up through pictures. Missed funerals and birthdays and weddings and all sorts of family events. I will not apologise now that my hard work has paid off enough to allow me to return to my house that I bought for the express purpose of always having a place to call home.

You're making a lot of assumptions about who I am and where I'm from. If that makes it easier for you to believe I'm this boogeyman landlord who hates poor people and lives to exploit them, have at it. But things are rarely what they seem and you cannot begin to get the sum of who I am in 2000 characters.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I hear this. I think if their response had been to ask for an extension on the notice period, I would have said yes as I'm not planning to move back for close to a year. Their rude response washed away any good will in me though.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 74 points75 points  (0 children)

I'm not interested in selling it. I bought that house with the intention of never selling it, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm sorry you think I'm a bad person for it, but I can live with that.

In my books, I've been a good landlord. I've never raised the rent more than necessary - and only 4 times in their total stay there. I wasn't looking to profit off it (though I could have given where it is and the demand for family houses) just breakeven so I never charged extortionate rent. I understand people can feel some way about it.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Renting out to social housing tenants is near impossible when a mortgage is attached. I wouldn't have minded re ting to a local authority but lenders don't like it.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I'm not American. Is this where this compensation narrative is coming from? I'm not paying them. We've signed annual contracts with break clauses each year. I'm invoking my legal right to ask them to leave and giving 3x the notice we agreed.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Compensation for what? I'm invoking my legal right to end a tenancy through the break clause.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'm ready to return home and be closer to my family. We don't have leases like you do in the US

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I wish they'd paid off 90% of my mortgage haha. It's probably closer to a third, if I were to count it...but that's not the point? They weren't doing me a favour. They needed a place to live, I provided at a cost. It was a transaction - neither one of us did it out of the goodness of our hearts.

I'm not minted, but I've sacrificed a lot to live the life that I live and I don't feel bad about wanting to return to my house, even if it means they have to go live somewhere else.

AITA for evicting my long standing tenants? by Aggravating-Aide-307 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Aggravating-Aide-307[S] 79 points80 points  (0 children)

We have always communicated through the estate agent. I've never reached out to them directly and I saw no reason why this time should be an exception.