A Tenant's guide to renting

moneymouth77

What I'd recommend is getting phone numbers from old housemates, parents and bosses, always better than trying to get written references.

Also, why not just interview them? I find that often works really well at phazing out the lay-abouts.

jacquie3167

Hi, I am hoping someone here can help us. My partner has just returned home to find a 'For Sale' sign on the house that he rents. The private Landlord has not informed him that he was selling and my partner is worried about his rights as a tenant. Unfortunately he has just admitted to me that although he has rented the property for approx 15 years, he has not had his contract renewed for the past 3 years! Does anyone here know if he will have to move out and how much notice he should get if he HAS to move out.
Thanks in advance.
Jacquie

inmypocketnottheirs

If your partner is on an assured shorthold tenancy it will have reverted to a periodic tenancy. What that means is the agreement basically runs from payment day to payment day.

If for example, your other half wanted to vacate, he could serve notice on the date of the monthly payment giving a months notice to quit. However if the landlord wishes to serve notice then he would have to give 2 months notice. In these circumstances your OH would be able to leave the property at anytime without giving any notice, and would be entitled to a refund on rent paid.

HTH

tbs624

inmypocketnottheirs wrote: »

If your partner is on an assured shorthold tenancy it will have reverted to a periodic tenancy. What that means is the agreement basically runs from payment day to payment day.

If for example, your other half wanted to vacate, he could serve notice on the date of the monthly payment giving a months notice to quit.

( My highlighting) It's not always the rent due date. . The length of notice has to tie in with a rental period, which is determined by *how often* the rent is paid but, for example,if the initial fixed term AST started on the 14th of a month, the AST would expire on the 13th, 6 months later, even if the rent due date was the 1st of the month.

The rental period is one month, because rent is payable monthly, but actually continues to run from the 14th to the 13th of each month for any subsequent stat periodic and it would be those dates that should be used for notice, rather than the date the rent becomes due, ie the 1st.

Rmz

Hi all,
the flat me and my friends are renting appeares to be damaged - there is a huge crack in the wall. We rent this flat from the agency (6 months contract- expires in October). Their representative came today and offered to stay in the hotel while the safety of the flat is being assessed- they already moved out a family from downstairs flat. It seems we will have to follow and just wanted to ask about our rights in this case. Say, if we have to move out immediately who will bear the costs associated with all this? I know that the agency will get an insurance money but are we as tenants eligible for some type of compensation? I want to make it clear that I'm not really after any exaggerated claim, but it is a real pain for us at the moment to find a new flat and all this.
Any help is much appreciated
thanks

tbs624

Start a new thread on the board rather than on this "Sticky" and you'll get more responses

Absinthe_Fairy

RedBalloon wrote: »

Morning!

I wonder if someone can help me. I've just signed a new tenancy agreement and my Landlord would like a couple of references - one being from my bank.

On the form he has asked me to sign and return to him to send to my bank, it says:

"I hereby request and authorise you to provide a reference to my new Landlords......IF there is a charge for this service I agree that my bank can debit my account up to £12.00. If it is more please call me for authority."

Now if I sign this are my bank going to charge me £12 regardless? Do they usually charge this much for this sort of reference? Should I amend it to say less?

Thoughts please........many thanks!

I had to do the same thing for my lettings agency... I'm with NatWest and I was charged 8.50, if that helps.

I thought that was bad, until I looked at this site and saw that some people have to pay 100 or more for credit checks!

barrysummers

some usefil stuff on here. now i just need to know when to stop renting and to buy..hmmm

angeldust4

My friend has just signed up to be my guarantor on a house im renting, and i'd like to sign some kind of agreement between myself and her just for both our peace of mind really but can only find guarantor/agency contracts on the internet.

Does anyone know of anything official or at least something with standard wording?

Thanks

inmypocketnottheirs

angeldust4 wrote: »

My friend has just signed up to be my guarantor on a house im renting, and i'd like to sign some kind of agreement between myself and her just for both our peace of mind really but can only find guarantor/agency contracts on the internet.

Does anyone know of anything official or at least something with standard wording?

Thanks

Hmmm confused.......

Your friend has signed to be your guarantor. That means they are financially responsible for your obligations should you fail to meet your rental commitments.

What are you now looking to sign?