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Can someone tell me about tenancy agreements in the UK?
If I move out of a property 2 months before my contract is up and give my 2 months notice and pay 2 months rent at the property, can the landlord keep my deposit? I have had a change of family circumstances and am willing to pay the 2 months left on my tenancy but I have to move to be closer to my grandfather as he is ill and my grandmother just passed away. I was planning on moving anyway (when my tenancy was up) because where I want to move is a better school district and the schools around here don't have very good reveiws. But the house that I might be moving into is being let in may and they won't wait. It's really hard to find properties that accept pets and a cattery is expensive for 2 months (landlord wants my cat gone 2 months before tenancy ends).
Sorry forgot to add that the contract I have for my cat is that upon request I must remove the cat and all evidence of the cat 2 months prior to moving out. A bit of favoritism since the previous tentant had pets here when I veiwed the property. I will talk to him 2 months prior to moving out (when I have my new contract in hand) and explain the situation. If he wants to be compasionate and let me off the rent and give me my deposit back than that is great, but he might not. So I do need to plan for the worst case senario.
Thank you my deposit is in a deposit scheem. I read up about it my landlord is pretty above board with these things. I know I won't get the whole deposit back but I should get some of it. My daughter ripped some wallpaper down and he will want to have a cleaner come in.
4 Answers
- frostbiteLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
The balance of power is with you as a result of the DPS. It is up to your landlord to provide any evidence against you if he wants to take your deposit. I believe he will need photos of before you moved in, and photos after, and if you dispute the deposit, then they go to be judged independently by a third party. But you don't need to prove you didn't do it, he has to prove you did.
I think you'll be OK, as far as I know the DPS has helped the situation of landlords pocketing your deposit. It's a shame you have to pay up for 2 months though.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
If you pay the two months rent - until the end of the contract - and give two months notice the flat is yours for those two months whether you live in it or not so you do not have to give up the keys. When the keys are returned at the end of the fully paid contract, as long as everything in the flat is okay, then you should get your deposit back. You may be able to negotiate an earlier release of your deposit if you pay the two months and return the keys. Good Luck, hope your grandfather is okay.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
If you pay for the months when you won't be there, then you should get the deposit back - but only if you haven't damaged or ruined anything at the property.
Landlords often try to hang on to the deposit. If yours tries, remind him that under new UK laws he was meant to have paid it into a special deposit scheme - and it will cost him if he hasn't. You'll possibly find that reminding him of this will 'persuade' him to hand back your deposit...:)
- Anonymous1 decade ago
If you have paid a months deposit just give him a months rent in notice.If he didn't mind the cats at the off tell him
you'll see him in court and he'll help you move.It will cost him more in costs than he loses in rent.Weigh the cost
of your deposit with the cost of a months rent basically.And to hell with him.I doubt you'll be phoning to ask him
for a drink.
