Giving notice to terminate a tenancy by email

theartfullodger

Chick:

I did explain Pdfs were one of the few attachments that could be relied on not to contain a virus but...

- sadly, not since at least 2001... see

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,2092743,00.htm
&
http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/11/toptenoct07.html

Whilst Viri in .pdfs are (usually) rare don't ever assume the little b***ards won't find a way in... and indeed to any other attachment....

(Or you could run Linux & not suffer anything like the number of attacks... and have free software (legally free, with better performance etc. etc... )-

Cheers!

Lodger

brightonman123

i think a fax may be more binding- send that as well as email, and let them know hard copy by post (red del!) also on way..

they cannot deny it, if sent 3 ways! (I think Twitter has also been used recently, to serve notice on someone..)

franklee

Ulfar wrote: »

There are a couple of reasons why.

The first being it proves when the notice was given.

Don't think so. What matters is when the notice is served, that is when it arrives. With snail mail there are precedents on how long to allow a letter to be in transit before it's deemed served. With email it's far more variable if one machine can't pass the email on to the next one it's allowed to keep trying for same days. That's before spam filters are considered, or how often a person downloads their email. I'd suggest email is OK if the tenancy agreement specifies so, otherwise I'd be asking the agent/landlord before relying upon it.