If I understood your situation, you agreed to rent a home and sign the contract, but you could not pay the full amount. You were not allowed to move in because you had not paid. I do not know when you intend to pay the balance if it was agreed. You ask if it is fair to charge you for a place that you have been denied access to. What you might consider fair is not necessarily the legal situation. The landlord may also think that it is unfair that you signed a payment agreement and that you did not do so and that they could have rented it to someone else, but it does not matter to the legal situation. The best advice anyone can give you is to keep your lease to an organization that can help you, for example. B.CAB, law centre, etc., because the specific agreement is important. The lessor may be able to legally enforce your obligation to pay part of the term of the lease, but this depends on whether they try and re-rent the room as soon as you have formally informed them that you no longer wish to take advantage of the lease. There may also be a special clause in the agreement that the lease cannot begin if no payment is made as agreed, which could help. The owner may decide not to do anything, even if he or she has the right to do so. In negotiations, it might be a good idea to keep in mind that you apparently committed to a contract, that you did not fulfill your payment obligations (which is the reason for not being able to cash in as expected) and that you did not try to terminate the contract until you were contacted. I suggest you try to get help because it is complex and it is better to treat it sooner rather than later.
It is much easier to end a periodic AST than a short-term temporary and secure rent. However, you must inform your landlord with the correct message to end your periodic rent. The lessor may collect a fee for the early termination of the temporary period. These fees should only be their real and reasonable cost. For example, the cost of advertising for new tenants. I am renting a property for which I signed a 6-month contract in August 2015. In August 2016, I received a new 12-month agreement that changes the monthly rent. I paid the increased amount, but I never signed or returned the agreement. Am I bound within 12 months anyway or can I resign? Consumer protection rules allow you to “liquidate” your lease in very limited circumstances.
This right applies only in the first 90 days of the contract and only applies if you can prove that you entered into the contract only on the basis of misleading information or aggressive practices. That`s why I`ve always used monthly contracts. Knowing that I was going to bend if the tenants decided to evacuate early, I thought I would equalize the land a bit by giving me the opportunity to increase the rent every time I decided to do so (with a 30-day notice, of course). Of course, in case someone asked for an annual lease, I would not have argued about it. If your landlord agrees to have a new tenant, make sure you receive your landlord`s agreement in writing.