Me and my partner had to move out of a rented house in February this year as the landlady wanted to move in so we thought it would be a good time to look to buy somewhere. We have no savings for a deposit and would never be able to save for one so we have bought one in the shared equity scheme. It is a new build so whilst we were waiting for it to be built we had to rent somewhere but as it was only going to be for 4 months we asked my partner’s parents if we could rent a house they have for sale that is empty and have no mortgage on it. They said we could for £400 a month. The house was filthy when we moved in so had a lot of cleaning to do, We are struggling for money to pay for carpets etc in the new house and my mum has given us £1000 (£500 was used as the commitment fee on the house) yet they are taking money off us.
We are meant to move the day we are meant to pay the final month’s rent as we didnt start paying until we had been there 3 weeks but there’s no way we can pay £400 rent and a first month’s mortgage in one month so I’ve no idea how they will take that.
Do you think they should have been charging us rent for the 4 months we have been there?