Served an N12
Hello,
Recently served an N12 for moveout at the end of July. We suspect the owner wants to sell to get rid of the property.
My partner and I starting looking for a place to buy but realistically it could take closer to October. We asked the landlord if we could look at that timeline instead and they said no.
We obviously don't want to be stuck renting for a year when we could be in our own home during that time.
What happens if we don't sign until we are ready? Of course we are still paying rent on time, we are good tenants etc.
Last year we had a flood due to the landlords negligence on annual maintenance. Some of our stuff got destroyed and was only marginally replaced by our renter insurance. The condo building said it was the owners' fault because they didn't perform that annual maintenance. This ruined our whole summer last year having to use time off to accommodate contractors over the course of 5-6 weeks (arranging work from home days, using vacation, and unpaid days (when the flood happened and had to cancel shift on short notice).
We were hoping to have a fairly routine summer, but now we are being N12'd right on a long weekend we already have timeoff/travel/accommodations booked.
Just looking for advice on how to acknowledge the N12 if you were in our shoes.
Thanks