The art of getting out of rent contracts?

[dwenfish]

do any of you actually read the contracts you sign

nah, they're really long and i don't understand half of the mumbo-jumbo anyway

 

[EastEnder]

nah, they're really long and i don't understand half of the mumbo-jumbo anyway

So you enter into legally binding contracts happy in the knowledge that you don't know what you're actually signing up to?

 

[dwenfish]

does anyone actually read the small print? tenancy contracts are pretty standard anyway aren't they?

 

[Kanda]

does anyone actually read the small print? tenancy contracts are pretty standard anyway aren't they?

There generally isn't small print apart from to clarify any definitions used that you may not know and they are usually subscripted.

You sign a contract once you've read, understood and agreed to it, if you don't you can't complain really.

 

[EastEnder]

does anyone actually read the small print? tenancy contracts are pretty standard anyway aren't they?

I always read the small print - you're right that the contracts are usually much of a muchness, but it's always worth reading them carefully, specifically to see if they've included some less than standard clause that may end up coming back to bite you...

 

[Xanadu]

You do have statutory rights that can't be signed away in a contract though. People should be aware of that.

 

[Jazzz]

Surely an option is to advertise for new tenants - if you can find a new set, then the problem is sorted and there will simply be an admin fee from the landlord and some paperwork.

If the landlord doesn't seem reasonable (i.e. insisting that you pay up whatever) then maybe it's worth threatening being difficult (ie upping and leaving and not paying)

 

[Kanda]

upping/leaving and not paying isn't gonna help if you want to rent in the future though is it?

(Yeah it's just a threat but hey ho, silly thing to do I reckon)

 

[dwenfish]

i just called up the agents and they just told me to put it on the gumtree, now how dyou go about making a cockroach infested shithole sound attractive..?

 

[baldrick]

If the landlord doesn't seem reasonable (i.e. insisting that you pay up whatever) then maybe it's worth threatening being difficult (ie upping and leaving and not paying)

yeah, but dwenfish's dad is his guarantor and therefore liable to end up in court if it goes that far or have a hefty bill land on his doormat.

if he paid his own rent then yeah, doing a disappearing act is do-able (not nice, at all, but understandable) but not if someone else is liable for the rent.

 

[baldrick]

i just called up the agents and they just told me to put it on the gumtree, now how dyou go about making a cockroach infested shithole sound attractive..?

don't mention the cockroaches?