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Hello I am hoping someone can let me know if I ca be forced as a tenant to sign a new contract after beeing on a rolling one for 5 years and a tenant at the property for 9.
I moved into the property I rent in 2014 when I was still married.
The lease was signed in joint names.
My marriage broke down shortly afterwards. The last lease signed in both our names was in 2015 or 2016.
I then signed a lease in my sole name in February 2018 and asked not to renew the contact every year to avoid paying the
Letting agent’s fee asking to operate on a rolling contract.
In November 2022, the landlord gave me notice to leave at the beginning of January. I asked for help from
The council who established that the notice was invalid because the wrong form was used...
It looks like the form used was for contracts signed in 2014 and before as my name and that of my ex husband were both on the notice I was served.
My ex partner and I are estranged and he has no business being on a legally binding document over something
that does not concern him.
I did a bit of digging to figure out why the letting agent (and/or landlord in cahoots) had given me an invalid notice.
I found out that after 2015 there was a change in letting laws and a number of documents needed to be provided
To let a property. When I signed the lease in 2015, 2016 and 2018 I was never given:
An energy performance certificate
An electricity safety certificate
I was only given a gas safety certificate and information on where to get help should the contract be terminated.
I think there are now other regulations possibly (carbon monoxide certificate, fire safety etc).
I had the fire services come to do a safety assessment on the property in 2018 or 19 and they fitted a carbon monoxide detector then.
I received an email in November 22 from the letting agent telling me someone was going to come and fit one but I said it was already done.
To this day I have not been given an electricity safety certificate or an energy performance certificate or anything other than a gas safety document.
The landlord had the whole house rewired in 2021, an energy performance certificate carried out in 2021 and someone from the
Council came to do a safety check in October 2022 and signed it off although some safety work to the stairs remains outstanding.
The landlord did some desperately needed repairs to the house (that I had asked for years) in 2021 but it turned out it was for him
To put the house on the market.
So my suspicion is that the landlord is not in a position to give me a valid notice because the paperwork from when I signed the lease in 2018
Is not in regulation with letting laws.
After the homelessness prevention team got involved and established that the notice was invalid, the landlord decided he no longer needed to sell.
The letting agent said he reserved the right to change his mind at any time.
That I could stay but rent would go up in February (the renewal of my 2018 contract) by £250 a month to the current market value.
There was an agreement whereby rent was low but I was to take care of the property and fix anything which I did (broken vent, paid to get trees cut in garden
Which are not my responsibility according to the contract, paid to have the oven door fixed, the door lock and some).
I told the letting agent at the end of December that I was prepared to pay the additional rent so long as a long list of repairs were carried out before February.
(Blown up socket, work in the stairs, broken fence, cracked floor tiles in the kitchen, big leak in the garage which I use as a workshop, broken fire place etc).
I explained that as a paying client I am happy to pay the full value of the property so long as it is in an acceptable state of repair.). The letting agent said
The landlord would contact me directly to sort it all out but he never did.
Just had an email form the letting agent asking me to make an appointment for me to go and sign a new contract as the rent
Hello I am hoping someone can let me know if I ca be forced as a tenant to sign a new contract after beeing on a rolling one for 5 years and a tenant at the property for 9.
I moved into the property I rent in 2014 when I was still married.
The lease was signed in joint names.
My marriage broke down shortly afterwards. The last lease signed in both our names was in 2015 or 2016.
I then signed a lease in my sole name in February 2018 and asked not to renew the contact every year to avoid paying the
Letting agent’s fee asking to operate on a rolling contract.
In November 2022, the landlord gave me notice to leave at the beginning of January. I asked for help from
The council who established that the notice was invalid because the wrong form was used...
It looks like the form used was for contracts signed in 2014 and before as my name and that of my ex husband were both on the notice I was served.
My ex partner and I are estranged and he has no business being on a legally binding document over something
that does not concern him.
I did a bit of digging to figure out why the letting agent (and/or landlord in cahoots) had given me an invalid notice.
I found out that after 2015 there was a change in letting laws and a number of documents needed to be provided
To let a property. When I signed the lease in 2015, 2016 and 2018 I was never given:
An energy performance certificate
An electricity safety certificate
I was only given a gas safety certificate and information on where to get help should the contract be terminated.
I think there are now other regulations possibly (carbon monoxide certificate, fire safety etc).
I had the fire services come to do a safety assessment on the property in 2018 or 19 and they fitted a carbon monoxide detector then.
I received an email in November 22 from the letting agent telling me someone was going to come and fit one but I said it was already done.
To this day I have not been given an electricity safety certificate or an energy performance certificate or anything other than a gas safety document.
The landlord had the whole house rewired in 2021, an energy performance certificate carried out in 2021 and someone from the
Council came to do a safety check in October 2022 and signed it off although some safety work to the stairs remains outstanding.
The landlord did some desperately needed repairs to the house (that I had asked for years) in 2021 but it turned out it was for him
To put the house on the market.
So my suspicion is that the landlord is not in a position to give me a valid notice because the paperwork from when I signed the lease in 2018
Is not in regulation with letting laws.
After the homelessness prevention team got involved and established that the notice was invalid, the landlord decided he no longer needed to sell.
The letting agent said he reserved the right to change his mind at any time.
That I could stay but rent would go up in February (the renewal of my 2018 contract) by £250 a month to the current market value.
There was an agreement whereby rent was low but I was to take care of the property and fix anything which I did (broken vent, paid to get trees cut in garden
Which are not my responsibility according to the contract, paid to have the oven door fixed, the door lock and some).
I told the letting agent at the end of December that I was prepared to pay the additional rent so long as a long list of repairs were carried out before February.
(Blown up socket, work in the stairs, broken fence, cracked floor tiles in the kitchen, big leak in the garage which I use as a workshop, broken fire place etc).
I explained that as a paying client I am happy to pay the full value of the property so long as it is in an acceptable state of repair.). The letting agent said
The landlord would contact me directly to sort it all out but he never did.
Just had an email form the letting agent asking me to make an appointment for me to go and sign a new contract as the rent
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