Hi guys,

Seriously need advice from those who had similar experience before.
I've just received a notice from my house leader today (26 Jan 2016) that the landlord has sold the house and being unreasonable, requesting us to move before end of this month. Just less than 5 days away.

We have a 2 + 1 deposit with the landlord, which i pretty much doubt that he's gonna return it.
He also threatened to lock up the unit.

What I can do as a tenant? I don't have any tenancy agreement nor any receipt stating any deposit given.

Having less than 5 days to find a new place is a pain in the ass now since I couldn't afford the deposit for new place cos mine is still stuck with landlord.
Can we make a police report or something?


Update:

- as per "owner" , unit sold in April 2015. Nothing was conveyed to us from the point of selling the place until yesterday..

- "owner" mentioned to old "tenant" that house was in process of selling, ask to continue staying.

- during that time, tenant asked if they should move out, owner said, if move out MUST give 2 mths notice, IF HE ask us to move out, then he need to give 2 months notice. (now this isn't the case since he gave us less than 2 months.)

- as of yesterday, able to nego to stay on till 26 Feb, which is not even 1 month

- "owner" holding 2.5x deposit, we requested to deduct 1 mth deposit as rental since he was the one asked us to move. He refused and ask us to pay rental for February even tho there's 29 days in that month but we are only allowed to be here until 26th Feb.

- "owner" said he will hold deposit until we move out and after he and the new owner checked the unit for damaged to make sure it's tenant-able. this is basically ridiculous since there's so many tenant come and go over the years. definitely will have normal wear and tear.

- based on the previous "tenant", they are not so fond of the "owner" , very rude and arrogant indian man. every request to fix something that is not working in the house was rejected. even i had to fix my own fuse in order for the existing water heater to work, and mind you... water pipes are stuck... low pressure.. just to fill a jug of water through the filter, you need to wait a few hours.

- with all these... i doubt that the owner will ever refund any part of the deposit.

This post has been edited by melz84: Jan 27 2016, 07:05 PM

probably signed by the previous tenant who used to stay here...
agreement was not renewed..

in this case, can the previous tenant step back in to help?
previous tenant is related to the current house lead

all rental are paid via electronic transfer.. i transfer to house leader then house leader transfer to landlord.

i don't think can get the original tenant to help.. cos it was 6 years ago