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Help, I signed a document but I don't know what it was and I can't get a copy

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  • 04-02-2009 11:10am
    #1
    SilverChair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭


    Hi, I’ve signed a document thinking it was a lease but now I'm being told it wasn’t. Yes I know I shouldnt sign things without understanding them, but its the same document I signed in my last house.

    The document was about 4 or 5 pages iirc and I filled in my PPS number and the rent I was paying per month and the days date. I don’t have a copy of it and he says he cant give me one.

    I'm living in a 2 bed flat with one other person. He says that the lease is in his name, and that it’s a huge big document and that the form I signed is for claiming rent relief tax credits. I applied for tax credits myself separately several months later.

    I'm a little concerned.
    I don’t know what I signed.
    I don’t know what my rights are re: the house, especially what happens if one of us wants to moves out.

    Can anyone please help


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    #2
    slagger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭slagger


    Can you remember if it is this document that you signed??

    http://www.prtb.ie/DownloadDocs/RegistrationForm.pdf


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    grizzly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    SilverChair wrote: »
    he says he cant give me one

    Who is "he", your landlord, a flatmate? and why can't he give give you a copy.


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    SilverChair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭SilverChair


    slagger wrote: »
    Can you remember if it is this document that you signed??

    http://www.prtb.ie/DownloadDocs/RegistrationForm.pdf
    Yep thats it, what is it?

    grizzly wrote: »
    Who is "he", your landlord, a flatmate? and why can't he give give you a copy.
    My flatmate, he says the landlord sent it off and there isnt a copy


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    slagger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭slagger


    http://www.prtb.ie/Tenancy_Registration_faqs.html


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    SilverChair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭SilverChair


    Thanks. So my flatmate has signed a lease and I am also registered with the PRTB.

    Am I covered by my flat mates lease, ie do I have the rights and obligations he has? Do I lose them if he moves out?

    Or am I living there without a lease, and if so is that a problem?


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,392 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    If you haven't signed the lease, you can't really be held to it. However, in such a case you will have rights and some obligations under what is called a Part 4 lease under the Residential Tenancies Act.

    On a day to day basis, this generally isn't a problem. There may be issues if you want to move (you have to give notice) or if you have a dispute with the landlord or flatmate.


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