New Rental

mrsbee17

Hi,

We are moving into another rental but it's not through an EA. The landlady would like a reference from our current landlord which is fine; when I hand in our notice to leave, do I just ask nicely if they would forward a reference onto the new landlady? It may sound a bit obvious but i'm not sure!

Thanks

Argghhh

i would ask now, if you have been a good tenant they will have no problem although they might give it to you once you hand keys back and are fully paid up Does the the new landlady not want the reference prior to offering you the tenancy?

G_M

Most landlords (ie the new one) prefer to request the reference themselves. I certainly do.

So you give your current LL's details to the new LL. It's then up to her to contact your current LL.

There are the occassional sneaky tenants/prospective tenants who write their own references and pretend it comes from their landlord............

:eek:

mrsbee17

I thought so - at least I could do is warn of pending contact I guess. On another note - I have checked my tenancy agreement and there is nothing that states how much notice we need to give to leave; it's the first 4 pages of this document here: http://www.oyezstore.co.uk/forms/templates/26002.pdf I appreciate it's not a great link as there's SPECIMEN stamped over it but maybe someone can shed some light. Shall i assume that it means I just need to give a month?

Thank you!

G_M

You are right it is hard to read!

I could find nothing about notice - could you at least point to the relevant clause? Or better still, copy it out?

Also you need to tell us

* the Term
* the start date
* whether rent is payable weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly

mrsbee17

I've looked countless times, and i sent a copy to my sister as a sanity check and she couldn't find anything either so i wish i could point you to the relevant clause!

The term as stated on the completed copy is 6 months, starting 22nd Feb 2014, paying £795 on the 24th of each month (this was agreed as payday is 23rd and i wanted to long term pay after then). We haven't heard anything since... nothing! We've seen the LL as he owns the block of 9 flats here but it's only been pleasantries!

Thanks for your help G_M!

thesaint

If you were to give notice now, the earliest your notice could expire is 21st Sep 2016.
Your landlord may agree to a shorter notice period, but is not obliged to.

mrsbee17

Thanks for your reply - I finally asked the landlord how much notice we need to give and he said 1 month.

G_M

mrsbee17 wrote: »

The term as stated on the completed copy is 6 months,
starting 22nd Feb 2014,
paying £795 on the 24th of each month

So your fixed term ended on 21st August 2014.

I assume you have signed nothing since?

You now have a monthly periodic tenancy, running from the 22nd to the 21st of each month.

Your notice should expire on 21st of a month.

If your original tenancy agreement says nothing about what happens after the fixed term, it is a Statutory Periodic Tenancy, and you must give a full tenancy period notice ending on the 21st. So you could serve notice any time from now to 21st August, to end the tenancy on 21st September.

If your original tenancy agreement says that after the fixed term your tenancy will continue on a contractual basis, you now have a is a Contractual Periodic Tenancy. The notice period would be whatever the tenancy agreement says.

However, you and the landlord can agree anything different you wish. If he has said 1 calender month is OK, then you can agree that, but I would get it confirmed in writing since that is not the norm.

You could write to him:

Dear Mr LL,

Thanks for clarifying the notice period required for me. I understand you will be happy with a calender month's notice. I shall let you know in due course when my plans are firmed up when I shall be moving out.

( Or:
Further to our conversation/your email yesterday etc when you said you required a calender month's notice, please accept this letter as my notice to end the tenancy on 3sr Sept (or whatever) )

Yours sincerely