Originally posted by sva14
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Otherwise the situation is that there are two people living there but only one is your tenant (and liable for rent etc).
That's pretty normal.
As to an agreement not standing up in court, that's a pretty astonishing statement.
It's quite possible for a tenancy to have no written agreement at all, so the idea that your tenancy agreement is worse than nothing seems a bit over the top.
Some parts of it might not be as reliable as you might wish.
It might not be perfect, or even very good, but the idea it wouldn't stand up in court sounds like nonsense to me.
Can I use the ast from the RLA as below if I wish? Rather than paying for their £300 service ? The agent cannot force me to use their service can they?
Agents are a business and they may legitimately want to use a single agreement so that they know what they've go to do for every tenant.
It caused some difficulty for my agent when I wanted to manage my tenant's deposits, because it meant that for every customer but me, they worked one way, and had to remember that I was different.
Agents do a job and need to earn a living; If you want them to provide you a service, you want them to be successful without ripping you off. So only you know if the costs they are quoting are worth it (because the one fee you have quoted isn't that bad).
But, on the basis that they're talking nonsense about your current tenancy agreement I'd query whether you should do business with them at all. A professional relationship would be based on them saying that, yes they'd like your business, it will cost £x million billion pounds to take over an existing tenancy, they'd insist on the tenant signing one of their tenancy agreements and after that it would be £x a month.
You could make a simple decision to go ahead or not.
Offering things that sound optional but you really have to agree to them doesn't sound a sensible start point.
You not wanting to pay £300 for something they seem to thing is necessary doesn't sound like a sensible start point.
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