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[Wacky Racer]

BGARK said:

O/T but I have a tenant that today wants to give TWO days notice for leaving the property, are we entitled to hold any of the deposit back with such short notice?

If the shoe was on the other foot there would be uproar!

What are in the letting terms?

The notice required should be in there.

They should stick to what they signed up to.

Anything else should be at YOUR discretion.

[BGARK]

Wacky Racer said:

BGARK said:

O/T but I have a tenant that today wants to give TWO days notice for leaving the property, are we entitled to hold any of the deposit back with such short notice?

If the shoe was on the other foot there would be uproar!

What are in the letting terms?

The notice required should be in there.

They should stick to what they signed up to.

Anything else should be at YOUR discretion.

Thanks, their tenancy agreement is one months notice.

[blindspot]

They are liable for the rent until their tenancy is ended by giving proper notice, unless you accept an earlier end of tenancy date. Assuming you don't accept that earlier termination, you are perfectly entitled to take unpaid rent from their deposit.

Just make sure you can demonstrate the relevant dates if challenged.

[BGARK]

blindspot said:

They are liable for the rent until their tenancy is ended by giving proper notice, unless you accept an earlier end of tenancy date. Assuming you don't accept that earlier termination, you are perfectly entitled to take unpaid rent from their deposit.

Just make sure you can demonstrate the relevant dates if challenged.

Thank you, thought as much.

[paulrockliffe]

You should check whether the status of the property invalidates the tenancy agreement first. If the property is a HMO from a planning point of view then I don't think an AST applies does it?

I might be wrong on that, I just remember it from living in a HMO that didn't operate on ASTs, but that might have been because the owner lived in the property.