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Looking to increase rent - Landlord Help!

Joel_Goodsen · 2018-08-22 11:01:07

Hi everyone I am a landlord and looking to increase rent. Before I get 'THE GREEDY LOOK', I haven't increased the rent since the tenant has been in the house, which is a whopping 8 years. The tenancy was a 6 month assured shorthold tenancy which is now 8 years old. How do I go about proposing a rent increase legally and…

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G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite

22 August 2018 at 4:06PM edited 22 August 2018 at 5:28PM

You cannot back-date the rent increase 8 years to the tenancy agreement date.

But I assume you refer to the tenancy periods - yes, it must commence in line with a new period, and must also allow the tenant a full tenancy period notice. So if you are partway through a period, you cannot commence the new rent with the next period it must be the one after that

The guidance notes for LLs makes it all clear.......:
Section 13 Notice

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