tenant to pay for renwed lease?

Jeffrey_Shaw

L has two contracts:
1. with Letting Agent.
2. with T.

T has only one contract (with L)- and none with L's Letting Agent.

Hence T should not have to pay any fees to L's Letting Agent.

samroo

With my own lettings business I gave tenants and landlords the option to renew agreements. If tenant wanted security they paid to renew and vice versa for landlord. Result: periodic tenancies

olly300

Jeffrey_Shaw wrote: »

L has two contracts:
1. with Letting Agent.
2. with T.

T has only one contract (with L)- and none with L's Letting Agent.

Hence T should not have to pay any fees to L's Letting Agent.

In theory but LAs being unscrupulous bast*rds charge tenants for everything they can.

They are not regulated which is why they get away with it and unfortunately the only Act that was looked at in attempt to stop this was found to be invalid.

louisj

Thank you all for this. It seems the agents can get away with it but I have enough info here to ask a few questions. Unfortunately my daughter does not have a contact number for the landlord so we have to do it all through the agent.

shippouk

louisj wrote: »

Thank you all for this. It seems the agents can get away with it but I have enough info here to ask a few questions. Unfortunately my daughter does not have a contact number for the landlord so we have to do it all through the agent.

Louis, I am in the same boat as your daughter, The Letting Agent is asking me for £50 to renew my contract for another twelve months and I immediately saw red and wanted to go and punch someones lights out!!! :mad::mad::mad:(I wouldn't do that of course (:cool:).

With so many replies above am I right in believing that I don't have to pay this fee because my agreement turns into a rolling contract after the twelve months?

I have the address of my landlord and will send him a letter telling him about the £50 fee and ask if he is being charged the same fee for the renewl of this agreement.

Just one more question to anyone that can answer...

If I refuse to renew and carry on paying the rent, what will (or can) the Letting Agent do?

Much obliged

Shippouk

Euphoria1z

shippouk wrote: »

Louis, I am in the same boat as your daughter, The Letting Agent is asking me for £50 to renew my contract for another twelve months and I immediately saw red and wanted to go and punch someones lights out!!! :mad::mad::mad:(I wouldn't do that of course (:cool:).

With so many replies above am I right in believing that I don't have to pay this fee because my agreement turns into a rolling contract after the twelve months?

I have the address of my landlord and will send him a letter telling him about the £50 fee and ask if he is being charged the same fee for the renewl of this agreement.

Just one more question to anyone that can answer...

If I refuse to renew and carry on paying the rent, what will (or can) the Letting Agent do?

Much obliged

Shippouk

Well, going by some of the above replies, the letting agent/landlord can either do nothing, or they can issue you a S21 notice to vacate the property via the courts. which can take time and has to be done by the book via the courts, presummably giving you a few months to vacate?

jjlandlord

Euphoria1z wrote: »

Well, going by some of the above replies, the letting agent/landlord can either do nothing, or they can issue you a S21 notice to vacate the property via the courts. which can take time and has to be done by the book via the courts, presummably giving you a few months to vacate?

Yes, the agent can serve a s.21 notice to "convince" the tenant to renew.
But court proceedings can only be started by the landlord.

Unless the landlord has a very good reason to require a new fixed term, I don't see why he would go to the trouble of evicting an otherwise perfectly good tenant.

The agent has is own interest in mind: He charges to issue the new agreement and he charges to find a new tenant. The only loosing scenario is the tenant staying on a periodic tenancy.
So I'll try to discuss with the landlord and not the agent on such matters.

shippouk

jjlandlord wrote: »

Yes, the agent can serve a s.21 notice to "convince" the tenant to renew.
But court proceedings can only be started by the landlord.

Unless the landlord has a very good reason to require a new fixed term, I don't see why he would go to the trouble of evicting an otherwise perfectly good tenant.

The agent has is own interest in mind: He charges to issue the new agreement and he charges to find a new tenant. The only loosing scenario is the tenant staying on a periodic tenancy.
So I'll try to discuss with the landlord and not the agent on such matters.

Thank you for your replies chaps..

One more question, can the Letting Agent take the fee from my bond if I refuse to pay?

Shippouk

Enfieldian

No.

Assuming that your deposit is being held in one of the three recognised schemes, a legal requirement since April 2007, then they do not have access to it.

shippouk

Hiya all,

Further to this thread, The letting agency contacted me the other day asking my intentions regarding renewing the lease, I told them there was no way I was going to either sign a new contract or pay £50 fee as I believe that the original contract automatically reverted to a rolling month by month one. They said this wasn't the case but they would contact the owner of the property to ask if this was ok with them and it it does and I don't have to sign or pay anything!

Thanks for the replies people.

Jeff