Yes they have given me a "20 days to vacate" notice - saying I owe 1,200 pounds including months of rent and a deposit. The thing is, I had been occupying the property since January.... I really annoyingly signed half of a license agreement in June with them after they pressured me again with the suggestion that otherwise i would be kicked out??- but the license agreement has no details about money, it had no signatures from Oaksure, no date on it, and I was never given the signed copy back from them or even confirmation - i have this all in emails - it is basically empty and i have proof i only signed this empty version that all it says that i am "occupying the property as a property guardian". It doesn't have my bank details on it or anything and I think it is invalid... but maybe i am wrong and maybe this will be the thing that shoots me in the foot.
I have a coersive email from the guy who runs the company saying that I need to say I'm a property guardian so the landlord doesn't think I'm staying forever... so the whole thing does seem very coersive. I have saved all email correspondance with them, particularly the ones when i first arrived. i have nothing in writing about me being a 'head guardian' until they started calling me this.
I will check out the links you've sent and seek legal counsel. So irritating this whole thing - and what is worse, the person who got me involved in this was a friend. Totally messed up.