Renting For First Time - Quick Question

Legacy_user

Hello All,

Generally how short a rental can you get and does the tenancy length impact things like the actual rental cost?

Mr Pink and Purple Glitter and I are selling our house in the midands and moving into rented accomodation as we're trying to relocate oop north. We would need 6-8 months but probably no more.

Cheers

G_M

A tenancy can be for any period of time agreed between the landlord and the tenant. A week, 1 month, 6 months, 5 years.....

However, few landlords agree to tenancies of less than 6 months, for 2 reasons:

1) it is uneconomic. It costs money, time, effort, stress to find, check and contract with a new tenant. And almost certainly there is a gap between tenants when no rent is received. Doing this more than 2ce a year is expensive.

2) the law makes it illegal for a landlord to evict a tenant in the first 6 months. So if there is, say, a 1 month tenancy contract, the tenant can choose toleave after a month, or can stay. If they stay, the LL can do nothing. So it is a pretty one-sided arrangement.

If for some reason, it had originally suited both sides to make a 1 month agreement (eg the LL was selling the house), the tenant can renague, but the LL is impotent.

In the occassional case where a LL does agree to a short tenancy, he is likely to ask for a highr rent.

System

Thanks G_M for the quick and detailled response,

Much appreciated:j

Werdnal

In addition to GM's excellent advice, you might find the sticky thread at the top of the forum "A tenant's guide to renting" helpful.