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Lease expired...

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  • 20-12-2010 2:17pm
    #1
    eeijlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭


    Hi - Just wondering, do the terms of a lease (on rented accomodation) still apply after it has expired..?

    /jlar


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    Knasher
    Registered Users Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    Once your lease has expired you are automatically under a part 4 tenancy.

    AFAIK the lease applies as is, so for example you still can't have pets if your original lease says they aren't allowed and you still have to pay the same amount of rent. Of course, if you have been a good tenant, then your landlord may be willing to renegotiate the lease in order to get another fixed lease.


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    Cadoche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭Cadoche


    Once your lease expires and its not renewed, you're not covered at all and I can guarantee you that because by law, that contract only abides during the stipulated time frame. Don't be fooled, get it renewed if you wanna continue to stay there (i.e make sure you negotiate a cheaper rent cos rents have gone down). As at this moment, without a lease the landlord has the upper hand. Act fast!


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    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    Does your lease not state what happens at the end of the fixed term? They usually do - if it is a decent lease and a well advised LL.

    Section 195 of the residential Tenancies Act 2004 requires a tenant of a fixed term tenancy for a term of 6 months or more who intends to avail of the protection afforded by Part 4 and to remain in occupation when the fixed term expires, to notify the landlord of that intention between 1 and 3 months before the expiry of the term.

    You are now on a periodic lease (determined by when you pay the rent - monthly, 4 weekly or whatever). It basically gives the tenant the same rights as a Part 4 tenancy coupled with the terms of the original fixed term lease as Knasher has quite correctly indicated. A periodic lease is often not a written lease.


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