House owner is playing mind games with us. Suggestions please.
Hello dear redditors,
Me, my spouse and my kid plus 2 Rottweilers are living in a rental property from 2023 December. We had word of mouth agreement stating that we will be staying a minimum of 5 years in this house and the house owner confirmed that there will be no problems or concerns from the neighboring people and they informed the neighboring people that we are bringing large dogs too. Things were going fine and we were in good terms with the neighbors, however the kids who started playing cricket on the roads started damaging our plants and decorative items in our entrance and slowly this started as a problem. On Diwali 2024, the person living opposite to our premises, accidentally burnt one of the tarpaulin sheets which we used for shade and to which he stated that in a sarcastic way that even police would have asked you to remove them. We took this problem to the owner stating that, it would have burnt his house and we requested him to intervene. The person who burnt the tarpaulin, his dad and the house owner were long term colleagues as a result of which the owner asked us to rectify this issue with the other house person and this ended up badly as he insulted my wife when she confronted us. After this the kids sometimes will wantedlyhit the ball on our stuff, one of the kids destroyed one of our plant which we transported her with lots of efforts. Right from 2025 till now all these guys (a total of 4 houses) are teaming up with each other and calling the owner continuously pressuring them to vacate us. The owner even tried to vacate us in the beginning of 2026 stating that a hostel owner wanted this property for rent and we knew that this was a lie plus he never mentioned that there wouldn't be a hike in the rent but he increased the rent from 18k to 22k informally and I informed him on January that in 2 years or so we will surely vacate as we were to put our son in a nearby school. Last week these boys started to hit the bowls which we used to keep water for the dogs and when my wife shouted at them they did a lewd dance in front of her. My wife took their stumps to speak to their parents but none came however they sneakily called the owner and informed that we are not allowing their kids and stole their property. The owner also said that one of the neighbours were continually calling them till midnight and were hell bent on vacating us. Today morning to we received a call from the owner that "what's the status of the house seeking process"? My question is that what mistake did we commit here to vacate and the house owner knew that we don't have family support (as we are from different communities) and he is using that to his advantage. Can anyone here help us to get out this issue as we just now put our son in a school nearby taking his word into account plus my wife is traumatized by seeing his name in the phone that he will call again to threaten to vacate. Any help In this regard will be much appreciated, thank you 🙏