Landlord wants to raise my rent nearly £200 what to do?

G_M

cashmonger wrote: »

Ooops! my mistake. I just took out the two ones I had and since the dates are written rather than numbered I was reading thirtieth as thirteenth.

So that clears things up does it not. The first contract is for first day of July 2013 to 30th day of June 2014. The second is from first day of July 2014 to 30th of June 2015. So 2015-2016 would have been the same dates and onto rolling contract thereafter til now.

I just looked below that and it says that the initial rent is paid upon the signing of the contract and thereafter is it paid in advance on the 2nd of each calender month - although I paid it 23rd rather than the second.

So does this mean that now it is april the 1st I have missed my window to give notice for this month? and that I will need to pay £750 in advance for May 1st rent (since that is when they said it begins at the higher rate) and can only give notice on the 1st of may through to end of that month?

If so I only got the letter a couple of days ago so I could say that it only gave me a couple of days to decide and give notice for before the new rent and ask if the landlord will keep it at 575 for one more month til I leave.

Good grief - you don't half make it hard to help you!

So if I now understand you:

* your tenancy periods run 1st day of month to last day of month
* your notice must be served on/before 1st of month in order to expire at the end of that month (so if not yet served, the earliest possible expiry date is now May 31st)

* Rent is due in advance on 2nd of the month (strange - I would expect it to be the 1st, but you know best ...... I think!)
* Assuming you made your first payment on signing the contract, that rent would have covered 1/7/13 - 31/7/13 Yes?
* Again assuming your next payment was on 23rd July (yes?), that rent would have covered 1/8/13 - 31/8/13 That means future payments would all cover the following month.
* Or did you miss paying on 23 July, miss the due date of 2 August (as per contract) and make your 2nd payment on 23 August (ie you were then paying in arrears)? Only you know.

* Again assuming you then continued to pay on 23rd, without fail, up to now, then each payment on 23rd either covered
- 1st to end of that month, or
- 1st to end of the following month

Depending which, you can now work out what rent is due up to when your tenancy ends.

cashmonger

No I never missed paying any rent so it will be for the following month not the current one.

Crashy_Time

Priority should be to find a cheaper flat ASAP (shouldn`t be too hard?) so what if the landlord gets a couple of hundred extra at the end of such a good run for you, he may need it if he is looking at a void?

G_M

cashmonger wrote: »

No I never missed paying any rent so it will be for the following month not the current one.

That is vague (and probably untrue).

Your 2nd payment was due on 2/8/13 (according to your contract). But it seems you missed paying on this date.

Did you make your 2nd payment early (on 23/7/13), or late (on 23/8/13)?

cashmonger

I handed in my notice today (email and post). I just got a reply from the letting agents asking if I would tell them why I want to leave.

Maybe the landlord was bluffing about the £750 and I called his bluff! I suggested £650 which he rejected but maybe he expected a counter offer rather than handing the notice.

I would kind of prefer he didn't question it because I don't want to stay anyway and don't want second thoughts. Been languishing in Manchester for a long time I would really regret staying I think. Need to see what else is out there.

Why would it be untrue? The contract says the first payment was on the day for the current month and subsequent ones are paid in advance. I don't know why it is 23rd rather than the second. I seem to recall the agent at the time saying set it up on any date before the next month. The contract may have been written up and we only got to signing it after the second or something like that. I know I couldn't move in for some weeks at the start due to the credit checking agents messing around -they wouldn't let me in till all was completed- so maybe it's to do with that.

Crashy_Time

Well done.

alchemist.1

You have been very lucky with only paying £575.00 in Manchester City Centre (especially with Housing Benefit). To be fair £750 would still be cheaper aswell.

The City Centre has been booming for Apartment blocks. Just takes a couple of students each paying £400 each to cover that type of rent level in the city centre and there are a lot of them willing to do that.

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Could be, I have not had a rent rise in so long it gets hard to remember.

It must be hard to remember all the nonesense you've posted on this forum..

Crashy_Time

alchemist.1 wrote: »

You have been very lucky with only paying £575.00 in Manchester City Centre (especially with Housing Benefit). To be fair £750 would still be cheaper aswell.

The City Centre has been booming for Apartment blocks. Just takes a couple of students each paying £400 each to cover that type of rent level in the city centre and there are a lot of them willing to do that.

Why didn`t the landlord raise his rent until now in that case?

Crashy_Time

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn wrote: »

It must be hard to remember all the nonesense you've posted on this forum..

Cheap rent from a private landlord is the best kind of nonsense.