In Shock

Well this has come out of the blue.

Helen and I received in the post today 'Court Summons' to appear before the local court to contest posession of our house. Basically we are being evicted.

After the initial panic, we found out that our lovely landlord has decided they no longer wish to rent their house to us, and want to move in themselves. And apparantly the way they have to do this is to give us 65 days notice, after which time, if we are still in the house, we are obliged to appear in court to give just reason why we are not vacating the property.

Why, oh why didn't they just give me a call, tell me that they wanted to move in to the house - even write me a letter for goodness sake. But oh, no, they have to scare the crap out of us with legal documents. Legal document that make no obvious sense. And after all, we've have been exemplorary tenants, never missed a payment, looked after the house very well.

I guess I'm angry with them for being so completely obtuse about the whole affair. I'm more accustomed to dealing with issues with openness and integrity, and these Lettings Agents are used to being treated badly, with bad tenants, and sometimes even worse landlords, so it must be par for the course to have to use these tactics. But still - come on!

It still doesnt get me over the shock of it, and we were both saying only last week how nice and settled we feel in our home. Well, here's to trauling the internet again for our next abode.....

Oh happy day....

C