Does the tenant pay a day's rent for the inventory report?

silvercar

Selim wrote: »

Scenario 1:

Me: Is it okay if I extend my stay until Sunday?
LA: I will ask the landlord.

.............

Scenario 2:

Me: Is it okay if I extend my stay until Sunday?
LA: I will ask the landlord.

I hope for your sake that wasn't the conversation you had because in neither of those scenarios did you agree on the rent that would be paid.

So the LL/LA can agree that you can stay, but did they state the actual rent that would be paid or could they interpret it as consenting that you could extend your contract but expect the rent to be paid for the whole rental period that you encroached into?

BitterAndTwisted

You are very ill-mannered and patently unreasonable. It doesn't really matter what verbal communication took place: legally the landlord would have been fully entitled to charge you the full month's rent the moment you stayed one day past the expiry of your rental agreement. They chose not to. That makes you more fortunate than you obviously deserve. You are getting in a lather and being downright rude about a sum probably less than about £50. I would suggest that you are wasting your time on this forum and ours but I daresay you will be back to ask for advice about how to avoid paying for the replacement of those ancient mattresses ere long and I sincerely hope no-one offers to help you.

Selim

I did say it was a simplified example! I asked if there was any danger that I would be charged an additional month and was told that there was not.

(I guess) the confusion stems from me requesting to move out on Sunday and being told that this would be no problem. I asked if they wanted the keys on Sunday but they said just hand them over to the clerk on Monday morning. I was not explicitly told that I would have to pay 5 days' rent, and had repeatedly said words to the effect like "the tenancy ending on Sunday" (with the agent using similar words), and had offered to give them the key on Sunday (when I believed the tenancy to be terminating).

Is it not rational to conclude that the tenancy ends on Sunday? Are they not obligated to mention Monday during the conversation?

If I have no leg to stand on that is fine, I can suck it up, but I do feel I have a point.