waahh they're selling my home!
So I've only been in this place 5.5 months before I get a call telling me the owners are selling.
Now I have to deal with keeping the place tidy every weekend for 4 weeks to deal with open for inspections, and the auction.
I've reading up the new owners have to honour my lease, which was a 12 month lease, is there any circumstances where this can be different?
I am feeling really annoyed after just settling in but hey what can you do.
And will it look weird if I hang around for the opens? I don't like the idea of random strangers poking around while I'm not there.
waahh they're selling my home!
We are in Melbourne also. No, as long as the contract of sale states that there is a lease currently running they can not make you leave.
We bought our house 2 years ago & there was a lease running at the time.
What we did though & you may find this happen. Is we offered the tenant 2 months rent to move by the settlement date. They declined & we offered 3 months rent to move out by settlement. She counter offered with 4 months but with no guarantee to move by settlement so we left them to it. We gave them I think 4 or 6 weeks notice (whatever was legally required) that we would be taking over the property when the lease expired.
At the time I was heavily pregnant and ended up moving when DS2 was 8 weeks old.
So in answer no as a tenant you have all the rights as long as the contract states there is a lease running.
On 2 out of the 4 occasions we visited all or some of the family that tenanted was home. So no I wouldn't feel it was strange.