User Profile

[DPT57]

Yes, provided you served it by hand or with a process server, and the date of service was a weekday and before 4pm, you could make it end on the last day of month 7. However, theres not much point. If you serve by post you must add at least 2 days for service and some landlords add more for certainty....

[DPT57]

If you serve notice on day 1 of month 5 then it can expire on the last day of month 6, which would coincide with the last day of a 6 month fixed term. However, a landlords notice does not end the tenancy or compell the tenant to leave so you cant avoid a periodic tenancy arising if thats what you're...

[DPT57]

Just tell him you can afford to pay so will carry on as usual.

[DPT57]

I had another large Energy provider break into a newly purchased flat to change the meter. I turned up a day after completion to begin cleaning it and found the workmen changing it. They wouldn't stop and it took so long to get through to the provider on the phone that it was too late....

[DPT57]

What on earth possessed you to sign a 3 year joint tenancy? Did you not understand that circumstances can change but that you would be bound for the full term?...

[DPT57]

I can't see the point of asking for rent for the last month of the fixed term. I doubt that many tenancies actually come to an end on this date so effectively you are asking for the first month and a random month in the middle of the tenancy....

[DPT57]

I would avoid making a specific offer, but would write to them asking them to discuss any issues with you at the earliest opporunity to explore options....

[DPT57]

Ok fine. But some landords jumping on this bandwagon are going to get into difficulty. They are probably not checking the terms of their mortgage or insurance to see whether they can allow rent free accommodation. Some will suggest the occupant pays the bills and council tax and will muddy the waters...

[DPT57]

This country seems unable to relate to the NHS in anything other than extremes. We are either lauding the institution and wanting to beatify its staff or demonising them for the actions of those doctors and nurses that have failed their patients.

NHS staff are amongst the few that can...

[DPT57]

You say that the tenant never registered, but did YOU tell B Gas when they moved-in and give them meter readings? If not, they may hold you liable for the payments....

[DPT57]

I don't think you understand the law on this issue...

[DPT57]

What does you contract with them say about this?

[DPT57]

If it happened it would be that any notice under s8 or s21 issued to an AST tenant would need to be read as though the period of notice was 6 months. If the same pattern is followed then the courts may also be told not to progress a notice for 6 months....

[DPT57]

I understand that some people have got away with taking a 'last month' rent in advance on the basis that it was the last month of the fixed term, which is a period thats knowable in advance. That would have to be clear from the agreement though. If its just the last month that they're a tenant at the...

[DPT57]

It's possible that the correspondence with the Agent, particularly their acceptance of your application and offer of the keys for Monday would be enough to form a contract, in which case they would be in breach of contract by not allowing you to take-up the tenancy. However, its possible that the Agent...

[DPT57]

Yes, although the Secretary of State did hint that this may be extended to 6 months....

[DPT57]

If I were him, I would give an ultimatum that either they agree to share the cost of the internet package or I would withdraw. I would want this in writing too, with the proviso that he changes to a different package as soon as this is a possibility. He presumably only stands to lose 1 weeks rent holding...

[DPT57]

Only for new tenancies, not existing. I also think its not going to be a local authority priority to do much about a breach at the moment either, even if the tenant brings it to their attention. I understand that they have to serve a remedial notice requiring the work done within 28 days, but I don't...

[DPT57]

This sounds like poor communication between Government departments when MHCLG are advising that no-one should be moving home during the lockdown!

[DPT57]

My understanding is that courts have accepted s21 notices as valid if the landlord can evidence three documented refusals to allow access to the gas engineer....