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  • DanS1
    DanS1 Posts: 109 Forumite
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    Basically if I want to stay I’ll need to pay “Housing Hand” (a guarantor service I use as I have no guarantor) an extra months worth of rent to act as my guarantor for the next 12 months. I am 31 years old and have had to do this for 6 years.

    ive started the application but still unsure as to pay them to finish off the application. Any advice??
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 50,691 Ambassador
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    Normally guarantors are liable for however long you stay in the property, they don’t have the right to opt out of being a guarantor. Otherwise landlords would effectively lose the guarantor when people stay on. It may be that the guarantor company is trying to gain money from you when they are already liable. It maybe the letting agent is just interested in making a commission on this. 
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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    edited 8 June 2023 at 10:10AM
    You don't need to do anything. Let your current AST go periodic. 
    I doubt the S21 will be progressed, even assuming it is valid. Have you checked?

    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • propertyrental
    propertyrental Posts: 3,391 Forumite
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    .....

    But another 'however'; even if it passes all the validity tests in artful's link,I believe the offer of a new tenancy agreement, at the same time or subsequent to serving a S21, can invalidate it. The court will assume that the LL wants the T to stay, so will (may?) dismiss the S21.


    See Mark Prichard's S21 validity checker

    Question 88, makes it very unlikely the S21 would be upheld by a court



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