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Is rent paid on a four weekly basis or monthly

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  • 09-05-2014 9:45pm
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    meoklmrk91
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    Hi guys,

    Just want to get some advice, some friends of mine moved into a house in December. The landlord refused to give them a lease and wouldn't give them any bank account details, the wanted them to give the money to a mutual contact to be handed to them. The landlord decided to raise the rent and when they said they weren't in a position to pay it then they gave them notice to leave the property.

    The landlord is now also saying that they have to pay for the month of May even though the rent was always paid on the same date every month. There was never any mention of 4 weekly month, it was paid on a monthly basis.

    As far as I can see the landlord has broken lots of rules here, they were silly to not insist upon a lease but the landlord is legally required to supply a lease, the landlord can only review the rent once in a calendar year. I can't see how they owe rent in the month of May?

    Can anyone advise here?


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    the world wonders
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    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    the landlord is legally required to supply a lease
    There is no obligation to have a written lease, it's just an incredibly good idea for both parties. In the absence of a lease the Residential Tenancies Act specifies certain minimum rights and obligations that both landlord and tenant have to each other.
    the landlord can only review the rent once in a calendar year.
    The landlord can only review the rent once in any twelve month period, which is not quite the same as once per calendar year. Either way the law is on your friends' side.

    Rent is almost always paid on a monthly basis, the "every four weeks" thing is a fairly common trick though to scam unwary tenants into paying 8.7% more rent. If the established conditions of the tenancy are that rent is paid every calendar month then this can't be changed to four-weekly without the tenant's consent. And this goes double if the change would constitute an illegal rent increase.


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    meoklmrk91
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    the world wonders wrote: »
    There is no obligation to have a written lease, it's just an incredibly good idea for both parties. In the absence of a lease the Residential Tenancies Act specifies certain minimum rights and obligations that both landlord and tenant have to each other.
    The landlord can only review the rent once in any twelve month period, which is not quite the same as once per calendar year. Either way the law is on your friends' side.

    Rent is almost always paid on a monthly basis, the "every four weeks" thing is a fairly common trick though to scam unwary tenants into paying 8.7% more rent. If the established conditions of the tenancy are that rent is paid every calendar month then this can't be changed to four-weekly without the tenant's consent. And this goes double if the change would constitute an illegal rent increase.

    Thanks for that, now to try and get her to get onto the PRTB and make a complaint, she is thinking of just paying it because she is nervous of getting on the wrong side of her landlord.


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