Hello all, i apologise in advance as I am sure this has probably already been asked at some point but I can’t find a definitive answer anywhere.

I rent a 3 bedroom house with my husband. My mother also lives with us. All 3 work full time. Rent/ bills etc always paid.

Our house was rented to us via an estate agent acting on the behalf of a landlord. We have pets which they know about. Our tenancy agreement does not state anything about no children or that we need to inform them of any pregnancy or new child however, it does say to not exceed the number of occupants on the tenancy agreement (which is the 3 of us).

I am currently on my way to work and whenever I call citizens advice I can never seem to get through before I have to get on the underground or something!

The landlord seems to be a bit shady to me. He’s fine when me or my husband are there but when he carried out his only inspection after 6 months of us being there (we have now been there nearly 2 years and not seen him!), he was extremely rude to my mother. She said she felt attacked/ ganged up on because both he and his wife were there etc, I don’t know the full story.

There are also issues with the house such as cabinets coming away from the wall which we noticed shortly after moving in but are afraid to touch in case we do more damage, there was an underground leak, the plumber had to cut a hole in the floor to fix and the landlord knew this but despite saying he’d get it fixed, again this was around a year and a bit ago.

The only time he’s contacted us since, ignoring our messages about things that need to be fixed, was to tell us that the council failing to collect our bins was our fault (despite us paying a private company to come and get them a few days later) - but because we didn’t have them gone THAT day when he drove past, we’d be breaching our contract and be told to leave if they weren’t gone! I complained to the estate agent and they couldn’t care less.

I am worried that now I am pregnant, and getting pretty far along, this person will try and evict us saying it’s a breach of the contract to have more than 3 people there? My mother has also worried me saying the estate agents are obviously on his side so not to tell them.

It won’t make any difference to the rent getting paid etc and I was under the impression that a baby wouldn’t count as being an extra occupant or needing space until 1 year old?

My husband and I share a bedroom, my mum has a bedroom, that leaves a bedroom we use as an upstairs living room - now to be where baby will be (no alterations like painting walls etc) and still leaves us with the main living room downstairs.

I know he can’t evict us for me getting pregnant, but if he claims it’s a breach of the tenancy agreement to have 4 of us there when our baby arrives?

I finally have a day off tomorrow so I’ll try and contact CAB again but it’s really worrying me. We have an assured shorthold which is now rolling monthly as we’ve been there over the year the term was for

TIA

-UPDATE-

I have always wanted to tell the estate agent, it’s my mum that’s worrying me and saying we shouldn’t in case they take the landlords side and throw us out. I’m worried we won’t be able to leave in our own time. I tried again to get through to the CAB today with no luck, I have emailed them instead. I will keep trying but hopefully they’ll reply.

I’ve been anxious this entire pregnancy, I’m just worried somehow, something will go wrong. It’s been nearly 11 years TTC with the months before we conceived NTNP as I’d given up following all the unsuccessful fertility treatments. I just can’t believe it’s happening tbh so I’m just waiting for something... whatever that might be, to go wrong 😔

I’ve also already started to try and find another place but I’m just worried in case I can’t find anything by the time my son is born. He’s due 03/05/20

My maternity leave will start at the very end of next week so I will be able to devote more time to looking, but I will be 7 months by then so I’m worried about having to move straight away with a newborn as well (he has to give us 2 months notice, I believe? As in any case we wouldn’t be breaking any rules until he’s born, assuming he’s on time and not early or late???). These are the questions I have for the CAB, I just wish I could get through - might not be so worried!

Thank you again