Landlord giving me and my wife trouble, need some advice please.?

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Hi friends. I am a married man and living in a rented flat in london with my wife. My landlord is a prick and is giving us serious trouble. He wants to increase our rent by a £100, where as, he increased the next door's neighbour rent by £10 only, and she would be adding £10 more every month. So we told him that since you have increased her rent by £10 every month, it is only fair that if you increase ours by £20 each month. He got furious over that and told us that we have to increase £100, if not, then we have to leave. We didn't give him a £100 more but £20 just like we told we would because we feel that we were being discriminated. Now he is upset and has told us that he would be posting us a notice to leave. 
We are extremely stressed because we have got load of problems going on at the moment. We cannot find any other place because it is just too expensive and we cannot afford it and do not even have time to make a move to go live some where else. My wife's mom was just diagnosed with cancer and she has only got a few months to live, we told this to the landlord that please consider this we are under serious stress, but he doesnt care. Can anyone please give us advice what to do with him? We will be grateful, thankyou

Glenn S · Accepted Answer

You don't set the rent, the landlord does.   Expect to be evicted very soon.   Maybe he thinks you are a prick and likes the other neighbor.   For 100 pounds he is willing to put-up with your prickness, for 20 pounds he isn't.   What the landlord charges your neighbor has nothing whatsoever to do with you.

If you were my tenant I would evict you immediately.

Being evicted will have serious consequences on your credit score and make it much more difficult finding a suitable place to live in the future.

willow.9210 · Answer

Life can be so unfair for some and not others. I would post looking for a place to rent in the area. I would also put add in newspaper in area. I don't know how it is there. I'm in US. Here with eviction. I believe they have to give you 30 days. And you can go to court house and get another 60 or 90 days. You may want to check that out there. Before you end up on the street real soon. Good Luck and God Bless

linkus86 · Answer

You should start packing your things. You seem to forget that you do not own the property, and because of that you are in no position to demand anything from your landlord. Since it is obvious you do not have a contract with your landlord and are living month to month you must abide by any change of tenancy demanded by the landlord or vacate the property. When you own the property you make the rules, but until that time you don't have the power to determine what it is fair.

The fact that the landlord demanded less from your neighbor is completely between the landlord ad the neighbor thus no business of yours. It is only discrimination when the landlord refuses to rent to you in the first place. That is not the case here.

The fact that the landlord demanded less from your neighbor is completely between the landlord ad the neighbor thus no business of yours.  It is only discrimination when the landlord refuses to rent to you in the first place.  That is not the case here.

The Masked Landlord · Answer

How much rent your neighbour pays is irrelevant, however, there are only certain ways the landlord can increase the rent - this tells you more: http://tenancyanswers.ucoz.com/index/tenants_rent_increase/0-42

The landlord is running a business, your life pressures are not his problem :(

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