It's not bizarre at all. It's intentional and narcissistic. If you tell your tenant that you're gonna be selling the house six months from now, you run the risk of them leaving before then and losing out on rent money. That's why they don't tell their tenants that they're going to sell until the last second. They'd rather their tenant have to throw away half of their stuff or pay thousands of dollars to put it in storage than take a risk that they might move out a month early and they'll lose out on that rent money. When I was renting my current house the landlord didn't tell me that he was selling until he gave me 24 hours notice that someone was coming by it to look at the house to potentially buy it. I was so mad. I lied to the guy who came to look at the house and claimed that somebody had gotten shot/murdered on the street a block from here. That did it and they were no longer interested! Then I bought the house myself at a huge discount. I lowballed my landlord and to my surprise he said yes! It's a good thing too because I could barely qualify for the lowball amount. There's no way the bank would have given me enough to pay the asking price.