Before anyone says it's against your tenancy, I'd like to say that at this point we have no other choice. We have two months left on our AST tenancy but we cannot afford to pay two places at once. Our landlord refuses to let us terminate the contract early and would definitely refuse assignment and subletting.
He has threaten to evict us, has been passive aggressive to us, and has literally terrorised us throughout the tenancy. Upon moving in he tried to get us to sign the agreement with the downstairs on top of our to profit off of it should one party choose not to pay. I'm having serious mental issues because of this, and do not believe the term not to sublet is a fair term under the fair contract law at this point, particularly after reading this: http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/201...tenancy-early/
We need to move as we have found jobs outside the city. But we are afraid of how subletting system would work. We plan to do a short term let for two months, which is lower then our own rent since no one will take this property for as high price as we are paying.
We want to know what sort of position we would be in should a subtenant choose to live there past two months against the contract. Even if we return the keys to our current landlord, would we be liable to pay him rent should he chose to take us to court over the subtenant? Or will he be forced to send an eviction notice to the subletting tenant?
I hear a lot of nightmare stories about renting and wish to do anything possible to make this unlikely to happen, but even with utmost carefullness it may, so I'd like to be prepared for the eventuality.
He has threaten to evict us, has been passive aggressive to us, and has literally terrorised us throughout the tenancy. Upon moving in he tried to get us to sign the agreement with the downstairs on top of our to profit off of it should one party choose not to pay. I'm having serious mental issues because of this, and do not believe the term not to sublet is a fair term under the fair contract law at this point, particularly after reading this: http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/201...tenancy-early/
We need to move as we have found jobs outside the city. But we are afraid of how subletting system would work. We plan to do a short term let for two months, which is lower then our own rent since no one will take this property for as high price as we are paying.
We want to know what sort of position we would be in should a subtenant choose to live there past two months against the contract. Even if we return the keys to our current landlord, would we be liable to pay him rent should he chose to take us to court over the subtenant? Or will he be forced to send an eviction notice to the subletting tenant?
I hear a lot of nightmare stories about renting and wish to do anything possible to make this unlikely to happen, but even with utmost carefullness it may, so I'd like to be prepared for the eventuality.
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