How legal are landlords tennacy agreements?

IveSeenTheLight

chinatown wrote: »

hes ignored 6 (or more?) emails and lots of phone calls regarding the water literally running down the walls when it rains and the huge wet patch on the celing above my 5 year old dauhgters bed! Hes had 2 roofing men out both who said it needs sorting asap....

Sounds like he is a landlord who does not care about maintaining the property and that the property sounds to be in a state of dis-repair.

All in all it does not sound like a good place to be and does not seem to be a goof landlord to have.

Maybe best you do see how you can move on.

P.S. I'm sure there is somewhere where it will state that the Landlord has to mainstain the property.

From what you have said they are not and assuming you have documented you calls / e-mails would be able to proove they have not kept up with the agreement.

Debt_Free_Chick

I have a feeling that contracts involving land - sale or rent - used to have to be evidenced by a deed. A deed is a written document which is then "signed, sealed and delivered". Deeds have to be witnessed, but no longer sealed. Delivery is simply giving you a copy of the final signed deed.*

It's likely that having a tenancy agreement witnessed is a throwback to the old "deed" and a "belt and braces" approach to ensuring that the agreement is legally correct and enforceable.

Having said that, it's unlikely that an agreement without witnesses is unenforceable.


*I think if you go far back enough in history, all contracts had to be deeds. But over the years, certain contracts have been replaced by statutory rights or covered under separate law.

chinatown_2

PBA wrote: »

It doesn't even seem like a written agreement is needed to create a tenancy, so I can't see a witness being required. There's certainly never been a witness needed on any of the tenancy agreements I've signed. There's a handy govt published guide to tenancy at http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/pdf/138289.

Incedentally, I know more about power of attorney documents than rental contracts, and I know they only have to be witnessed if the signatory isn't capable of signing the document themself. That might be a possible reason for the witness section being on there, but then left blank as it isn't needed.

Thanks for this link, its really useful. Ive saved it.