Hello. I rented my current apartment on February 28, 2015 with a 12-month contract signed. At the end of the first year, I just called my landlord to tell her that I would like to continue in the apartment, and she agrees with her. Normally, this conversation takes place every year in January. I just found a better home, and because I don`t want to cause any inconvenience, I wrote to her that we were going to evacuate the premises on January 1 (a month of wholesale written communication) and she says that because our contract does not end on February 28, she will keep my $2,000 deposit. The question now is whether she has only one contract that I signed and that ended on 28.02.16. What are my rights? Can it keep the deposit on the basis of these criteria? So thank you, if your tenant says, for example, that he first entered before February 27, 1997 (at that time, you should have sent a s20 message to your tenant to create an AST) and you say they entered for the first time after that date – it becomes more difficult to prove it without the paperwork. I moved into someone to rent a room without tenacy agreement stayed since December so 4 months of rent paid each month was discovered, that there is a property board and make me homeless just chucking me on a date that I need to stand somewhere for something This blog focuses on situations where the rent is relatively new after February 27, 1997, and where the tenant has not previously finished the property with something “next door”. A tenant who exists before 1997 and/or where, for example, there is a historic sales and tenancy contract, could complicate the legal situation and the eviction process, but the following is a general overview that will apply in most cases. In this legal area, each case must be assessed on the facts of this case, particularly in the absence of written agreement. I used to get a call today from an angry friend; Your landlord asked them to evacuate the property until Saturday (4 days away), due to a disagreement with the rent (I spare you the sad details because this is not the point of this blog).

Remember, there are still several months of rent, so the landlord tries to terminate the lease for the duration of the period.