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Early rental termination
Nessie250
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Looking for advice, we terminated our rental agreement early, sent formal notice and had arranged tenants to start the tenancy from the day after our agreement ended. The estate agent confirmed receipt of our termination. They are now trying to charge us an extra weeks rent as they have chosen to delay the start of the new tenancy to do some work, we know the new tenants and they told us they pushed them to move in later. Our main issue here is not at any point did the estate agent communicate to us that the new tenancy was delayed and we would still be liable as per contract. Had we known we would have moved out later. Are we likely to fight this under the TDS scheme?
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Well the obvious question is how did you " terminated our rental agreement early," and how did the landlord/agent respond.Unless the contract had a Break Clause, you had no automatic right to early termination - you were entirely dependant on the LL agreeing, and he could do so on whatever terms/conditions he chose, and on watever date he chose. Or he could simply refuse.You say: "The estate agent confirmed receipt of our termination." Please quote the exact response you received. Obviously if they gave you agreement to end the tenancy on a specific date, with no associated conditions, then they can not go backon that.
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I would be surprised if any agency or Landlord would agree to this as they need to do a checkout inspection and also arrange for an inventory to be done for the new tenants and that process can take a weekNessie250 said:Looking for advice, we terminated our rental agreement early, sent formal notice and had arranged tenants to start the tenancy from the day after our agreement ended. The estate agent confirmed receipt of our termination. They are now trying to charge us an extra weeks rent as they have chosen to delay the start of the new tenancy to do some work, we know the new tenants and they told us they pushed them to move in later. Our main issue here is not at any point did the estate agent communicate to us that the new tenancy was delayed and we would still be liable as per contract. Had we known we would have moved out later. Are we likely to fight this under the TDS scheme?0
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