Strange clauses in tenancy (AST) agreements

doelani

A friedn of mine was ready to sing a lease a few years ago, EA told her to read it well as landlord has asked for a lot of adjustments to basic lease including..

No visitors to house afer 10.30pm , door to be locked at this time and not opened again to 7am .
No washing machine or tumber dryer to be used after 10pm
No cars to be parked outside house on main road, only allowed 2 cars which will fit in driveway

Breach of any of the " extra" conditions would mean immediate cancellation of lease. These is only a few of the addition conditions. We live in small town where we all know EA etc and tehy basically told friend they ahd never come across a LL wanting such donditions.

Now this was a semi in a residental area that landlord had agreed to let ot a family with 5 children ranging from 6 months to 15 years. LL brother lived a few doors away so would be " keeping an eye" .

Obviously friend did not rent this house.

DVardysShadow

doelani wrote: »

A friedn of mine was ready to sing a lease a few years ago, EA told her to read it

EA's are such philistines. Reading a lease is so boring - it is much better done as a performance with a chamber orchestra - but unaccompanied is fine.

doelani wrote: »

Obviously friend did not rent this house.

Understandably.

G_M

The purpose of this tenancy is to confer on the tenant the right to occupy the premises for a holiday.

looks to me like the intent is deprive the tenants of normal protections of an AST by defining it as a holiday let. No way it would work of course. Some of the other clauses are more normal for a holiday let too.

FATBALLZ

Don't take tenancy agreements so seriously. Don't be a neighbour from hell, don't trash the place and pay your rent on time and you'll be fine. The landlords and agents who write these sort of contracts tend to be stuck in the 15th century mindset of having complete control over their tenants lives.

sharkie

smallpurplepill wrote: »

'Special Tenancy Conditions'


The tenant must inform the landlord and the landlords agents of any change in circumstances which may have an effect on the income of the tenant.

The property is being let as a private residential dwelling for not more than two people including children.

Not to store any explosives, flammables or chemicals in the property

not verbatim, but I have put similar ones in my ast too, bar the one in italics.

My btl mortgage loan states that I can not house any DSS or other persons paid by social services etc. I believe this to include disabled too.

The explosive item is in the Southwark councils handbook for leaseholders book.

Another from the leaseholders book it that you are not allowed to conduct items of business, register the premises as a business address, or business nature from the premises. You can't be a contractor?

The italic one : certain dwellings HMO's especially do have these, and I'm fairly sure some part ownership have a restriction to maximum number of people.

I would also add no bbq or open fires - this is however for a maisonette flat. Yes, I had previous tenants try to BBQ on an open fire. They could not undestand why the people in the flat above got upset when burning embers, smoke and ash came billowing in through the open window.

smallpurplepill

sharkie wrote: »

My btl mortgage loan states that I can not house any DSS or other persons paid by social services etc. I believe this to include disabled too.

Thanks, I can understand as a condition of the mortgage that that probably gives some restrictions! I'm a little surprised that this can "include disabled" in this PC day and age (!) but am certainly no expert so I don't really know!!

sharkie wrote: »

The explosive item is in the Southwark councils handbook for leaseholders book.

Another from the leaseholders book it that you are not allowed to conduct items of business, register the premises as a business address, or business nature from the premises. You can't be a contractor?

Yeah, I had something similar about not using it for business purposes (perhaps these days with Ebay and teleworking etc what is a 'business' purpose is more blurred than it used to be..)

Is that 'contractor' as in someone like an IT Consultant who would be self employed and work for various companies or do you mean where people come to the house? I guess many contractors are set up as "John Smith Consulting ltd" (or whoever) in which case it is probably registered to the address!

THis is actually one I've struggled with as I am just a normal employee but have wanted to 'work for myself' on the side and had this in the lease so couldn't.

sharkie wrote: »

I would also add no bbq or open fires - this is however for a maisonette flat. Yes, I had previous tenants try to BBQ on an open fire. They could not undestand why the people in the flat above got upset when burning embers, smoke and ash came billowing in through the open window.

:eek:

Blackpool_Saver

I lived in one house that said I couldn't put pictures up on walls !!!!!!!

smallpurplepill

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

I lived in one house that said I couldn't put pictures up on walls !!!!!!!

:whistle: And did you?

clutton_2

old leases can also be quite funny.. one leasehold house i bought contained the clause that no slaughtering of cattle was to be allowed in the front room of the premises..

another bans me from selling wet fish ......

moodydonkey

My old tenancy agreement forbids me from fouling the toilet. No mention in my new one so I guess I can now!