Renting: Can i give notice when i choose ?

StuieUK34

Hey guys,


Need some help please, as am slightly stuck with this:

Rented a house back in 2011, starting on the 24th of the month.
Signed 1 year deal, signed another 1 year deal the year later, but after that, so signing, so I guess I'm on whats called a rolling contract ????


Anyway, I wanted to give 30 days notice today..
I worked out the daily rental rate for the house, and said the last payment would be to cover 30 days from now (its the 19th)


The Lettings Agent has just emailed me to say:
"To give 30 days notice, it needs to be on the 24th of the month or just before, so your moving out date will be the 23rd of Feb, and your liable for the full month rent"


I thought the 30 days could be given at any time, unless you were in a fixed contract ??

Pixie5740

If the property is in Wales then when your fixed term ended you started a Statutory Periodic Tenancy (unless your tenancy agreement says anything about a Contractual Periodic Tenancy). If you pay your rent monthly then you need to give at least 1 month's (1 rental period) notice. So if your tenancy started on the 24th of whatever month then you would need to serve notice before the 24th of the month for the tenancy to end on the 23rd of the following month.


G_M has a useful link explaining how to end a tenancy but I can't find it right now.

StuieUK34

Cheers for the info...
I thought that once your on Periodic rental, you could give 30 days notice at any time, and pay for those remaining 30 days...


Oh well, guess it means we have a house empty for 10 days! (and have to pay more money as such, kinda!)

Guest101

What pixie said.

U can give notice today to expire on 23rd feb, if u wait until after jam 23rd. Ie notice served jam 24th onward, it would expire March 23rd.

The notice is minimum one month, so u can give notice now for any month, but it must expire on the 23rd of the month - unless u agree with the LL in writing for another date

Guest101

StuieUK34 wrote: »

Cheers for the info...
I thought that once your on Periodic rental, you could give 30 days notice at any time, and pay for those remaining 30 days...


Oh well, guess it means we have a house empty for 10 days! (and have to pay more money as such, kinda!)

It wouldn't be 10 days? It would be 4? Notice to expire feb 23rd instead of 19th?

StuieUK34

I cant count on Mondays! (although did try to give 30 days notice yesterday...)

stator

Check your tenancy agreement. Does it say anything about what happens after the fixed period end?

If it says something like:
"After the fixed period ends a rolling period tenancy will be created and require 30 days notice from the tenant" Then you would be okay to just give 30 days notice.
But most tenancy agreement will say whole months only.