Do I have a lease or a license to rent my current home? My landlord hasn't put my deposit away?

G_M

We have a fixed-term agreement from 1st June to 1st December.

Are you sure? That is unusual. It is 6 months + 1 day. Does it specify those dates, or does it say '6 months'?



If your contract ends on 1st December then, by definition, that's when it ends! You can leave on the 1st Dec. You need not give notice (though giving notice helps with arrangements like returning keys etc.


But do not stay an extra day or you'll start a periodic tenancy and have to then give a months notice.


If you don't get your deposit back, make it clear you will claim the 3 times penalty. Whether you subsequently do tis is up to you.


* Deposits: payment, protection and return

jess_d_docs

Yeah it's very unusual, especially as they then wouldn't allow us to move in until 3rd June! It specifically says those dates on the contract.

I said that I was absolutely within my rights to leave at the end of the contract - I only told them we were leaving so they could find someone to replace us. Like you said, I didn't need to do this. It's all very strange. Thank god I'm no longer renting in a month's time haha!