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Checkout fee added to my Tenancy Agreement

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  • [Deleted User]
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    I'd expect a check out fee like that to include a full cleaning service as well as check out service! I'd advise contacting the LL and asking if this can be negotiated as it seems rather high, particularly as you have already paid a £100 check in fee and was not expected to pay a check out fee. He/she may not be aware.

    Have you clarified what has happened to your deposit with the LL change? Is it protected? Have you been sent prescribed information?
  • kinger101
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  • Guest101 wrote: »
    Do nothing. In law you have a valid tenancy and will do until you choose to leave or the LL goes to court and evicted you ( not likely )

    But my tenancy is valid till May (my tenancy agreement says it expires on 26th of May), so I understand that if I don't sign the new agreement (in which new fees were added), I'll have no right to stay there?

    2 weeks ago I received an email from the LL in which he informed me that the rent will increase, and asked me to let them know if I'm happy to sing a new contract (with increased rent). However the email didn't say anything about new fees.

    The email from the LL included:

    f you are happy to renew the
    tenancy agreement as per the above terms – please send! a text: 0xxxxxxxxx or email to! info@xxxxxxxxxxxx
    !confirming acceptance of the above.

    I accepted the new terms, and AFTER my acceptance the LL sent a new tenancy agreement in which he included new fees, that he didn't mention when we were negotiating the increase of rent.
  • marksoton
    marksoton Posts: 17,516 Forumite
    anuglyguy wrote: »
    But my tenancy is valid till May (my tenancy agreement says it expires on 26th of May), so I understand that if I don't sign the new agreement (in which new fees were added), I'll have no right to stay there?

    Yes you do have a right to stay. As soon as your current tenancy expires it becomes a periodic tenancy.You don't have to move anywhere. Simply don't sign this new tenancy.
  • anuglyguy
    anuglyguy Posts: 6 Forumite
    marksoton wrote: »
    Yes you do have a right to stay. As soon as your current tenancy expires it becomes a periodic tenancy.You don't have to move anywhere. Simply don't sign this new tenancy.

    A periodic tenancy means the LL will be able to give me a notice and ask me to leave at any time, am I right, do I understand a periodic tenancy correctly?

    If I start paying an increased rent (as agreed) but don't sign an Ammendum agreement (which says about the fee), will he not try to remove/evict me?
  • marliepanda
    marliepanda Posts: 7,186 Forumite
    anuglyguy wrote: »
    A periodic tenancy means the LL will be able to give me a notice and ask me to leave at any time, am I right, do I understand a periodic tenancy correctly?

    If I start paying an increased rent (as agreed) but don't sign an Ammendum agreement (which says about the fee), will he not try to remove/evict me?

    He still had to give you the 2 months notice, though yes you are no longer in a longer fixed term.

    Why would he evict you for not signing an agreement? You're paying the rent. He'd be daft too. Especially of you pay the increase.

    If you do want a longer term commitment then speak to someone about this new checkout fee
  • dimbo61
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    Send email to the Landlord saying you agree to rent increase but you want a 12/24 months contract and you DO NOT AGREE to this extra FEE what so ever.
    Ask for a New addendum and see what happens.
    The Landlord would have to serve you with an s21 and it would costs him money to evict a tenant who is paying the every every month.
    This is stupid and if the Landlord follows this course of action then its time to look elsewhere
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