Increasing rent and changing details on the contract

Hi, I have agreed a rent increase with my tenant and she is already paying the new amount. She’s a great tenant but I haven’t anything in writing except for a formal email.

With new rules about to be implemented I thought I would get the contract updated to be on the safe side.

How do I increase the rent in the contract but keep all other details the same? At the moment we have an Assured Shorthold Tenancy with 2 months notice on both sides. I want to keep that clause. How do I do that?

Thanks in advance

@Robert41

Choose

Manage tenancy

Then scroll down and

Change rental amount

Good luck

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Okay, I saw that but what do I type in for Break Cause? It wont allow for 2 months to be entered?

Thanks

@Robert41

Enter whatever you did before when creating the tenancy- if you had a custom clause before saying 2 months you still will have it.

It doesn’t matter anyway. Break clauses will be void from 1 may anyway as the whole idea of 6m or 12m fixed terms gets abolished

Good luck

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I’m not sure its worth doing anything at this point. The existing tenancy agreement will change next month anyway due to the renters rights act and 2 months tenant notice will become the default. Also as your tenant has started paying the increase, then its already legally binding.

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