Tenant/Landlord advice needed

Tigz76

I live in a private rented house at present a letting agency fully manages this property. However I know my landlord reasonably well and we both have decided that the LA doesn't actually do much for their money and were hoping to arrange that I pay my landlord rent directly. I'm on a rolling month to month contract and at present have to give my landlord 1 month notice if I wish to move out, and my landlord has to give me 2 mnoths notice.My landlord has been in touch with LA and has been told that he will have to pay a fee of £1000 to cut them out as they found the tenant! Is there a way round this? I want to stay living here and am happy to pay my landlord directly as he does the maintainence anyway. If I give notice to the LA to end the tenancy, and my landlord says that he doesn't want to rent the property through them again can I stay in the property once that tenancy ends and then set up a tenency agreement with my landlord?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

BitterAndTwisted

No-one "owns" the tenant, especially not the agent who is a mere intermediary in the landlord/tenant relationship. I suggest your landlord examines their contract with the agent particularly closely, gives them the appropriate notice and then tells them to get lost for their "fee".

G_M

You have no legal relationship with the agent. Your contract is with the landlord. The agent is ..... just an agent employed by the LL to do certain things (eg collect rent) on his behalf.

The LL has a contract with the agent for this. He needs to read that contract!

You cannot "give notice to the agent". You would be giving notice to the landlord via the agent.

Most LL/agent contracts require a notice period (typically one or 2 months). A 'fee' is probobly an unfair and so unenforcible clause.

My advice to the LL would be to
1) read his contract
2) instruct you as his tenant in writing to start paying rent direct to him (so as to minimise the amount of the LL's money that the agent has) and THEN
3) give notice to the agent (and if necessary pay the monthly charge for however long the contract requires).

Make sure your deposit is in a scheme and is in your and the LL's name so the agent does not have control of it.