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Lease expired - houseshare

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  • 26-04-2012 5:39pm
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    mosi
    Registered Users Posts: 620 ✭✭✭


    I've been sharing a house with two others for about 15 months. The lease expired in January and one of the other people has moved out. We aim to move within the next month or two - the landlord is aware of this. We should have moved when the lease ended but there have been some delays on the property we are moving to, which should be ready soon.
    Anyway, are the two of us that are still in the house liable for the rent that the other person was paying, although the lease agreement (which we all signed) has expired?


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    Milk & Honey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭Milk & Honey


    mosi wrote: »
    I've been sharing a house with two others for about 15 months. The lease expired in January and one of the other people has moved out. We aim to move within the next month or two - the landlord is aware of this. We should have moved when the lease ended but there have been some delays on the property we are moving to, which should be ready soon.
    Anyway, are the two of us that are still in the house liable for the rent that the other person was paying, although the lease agreement (which we all signed) has expired?

    Yes.


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


    If you all signed the initial lease or were added to that lease you would generally all be "jointly and severally" liable for the rent. The landlord can look for the rent from anyone of you as individuals or from all of you as a group. All of you, as a group rented the house as a single unit and you undertook to pay the full rent therefore if only one person remains then that person would be liable for all the rent.

    As your fixed term lease has now expired and you have not signed a new lease then you have a Part 4 lease and may leave by giving the landlord written notice of 42 days as you have been in the property for more than 1 year but less than 2 years. You can, of course, have a shorter time by mutual agreement.


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