Is re-advertising cost recoverable from tenants?

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Hi all,

My tenants have decided to utilise their break clause 12.6 of their tenancy agreement,

Can I ask that they cover the cost of the re-advertising? And can the break clause be removed from future agreements?

Thank you

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  1. No
  2. Yes

The tenants have done nothing wrong by exercising a clause that you included in your contract. In any case it would be a breach of the tenant fees act.

Ive never seen the value of having a break clause in a contractual periodic tenancy. Just have a shorter initial term of 6 months and skip the break clause. Im not sure whether Openrent allow this in their model agreement though, so you may have to use a different one.

If your aim is to lock the tenant in to a longer period, that would be a mistake. In practice the only person bound by it will be you. In any event, from May onwards all tenancies will be monthly periodic from the start.

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@Rowena you can ‘ask’ anything you like but why would tenants pay. You could ‘ask’ them to cover rent for void period too, again why would they?

Better to ask something more reasonable like agreeing some dates/timeslots for viewings ahead of their departure to try to avoid a void period

Good luck

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Sure, agreed! It just comes with financial implications, guess ill have to bite the bullet and hope it let’s out sooner rather than later.

Thanks

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Yes, i understand, will do.

Thanks

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They do (20 Characters)

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Thanks. Good to know.

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