Tenants Notice and Tenancy Period

[mod_harry]

Hi @Dean3,

We’d always recommend seeking independent legal advice for your particular circumstances.

The standard OpenRent contract does state:

The Tenant must give notice of no less than one month, such notice to expire the day before a Rent Payment Day or on the final day of the Initial Term.

However the tenancy can be ended at any point via mutual agreement. If you would like to accept a notice that expires on a date which does not align with the rent payment date, you are welcome to do so.

I can see you’re using our Rent Collection service, in which case once you have confirmed the end date of the tenancy we will calculate the pro-rated rent amount due for the tenants to cover the last period of the tenancy.

There’s some previous discussion on this here:

Interpretation of 'last day of rental period' under periodic tenancy

My openrent contract states: 11.2 If the tenancy has lapsed into a periodic tenancy it may be terminated by: • the Tenant giving written notice of at least one month and expiring on the last day of a period of the tenancy. My tenant has just given 4 weeks notice (16.08.20). Rent is paid on 5th of every Month, so I believe the period of the tenancy is from the 4th to 5th of each month now that it is a periodic tenancy. The tenant has been told (by the agents acting for the LL to where they ar…