ok, just to update you on the situation. we thought it better to try and find a replacement tenant, which we did do, but the LL has refused the tenant's offer of the same rent we were paying. he is asking for more and will hold us to the rent unless someone is found who is willing to pay his new asking price!! this is completely contrary to what we agreed upon, and that is where what you have said above Aequitas comes into play. we have not agreed to pay for rent for the following month, so thank you for advising us on that. what should we do here?

nothing?

thanks for getting back to me. now the estate agent is insisting that we have to give a 2 month notice period! without there being a mention of what period of notice is required, how do i know what i should do? what is the standard in these cases? my landlord is asking that we pay for 2 months and then he will try to find a tenant for june, if they move in on the Xth day of june, he will refund us the rent back pro rata. but then he will only give us our deposit back on 1 august, when our initial tenancy was supposed to end, even though we would have been out of the property for 2 months by that time. p.s. our landlord has also not registered our deposit with the TDS and after reading some of the experiences on this forum about tenants taking landlords to county court about this and the LLs registering just the day before and not being penalised for this.. so we were thinking of telling him about it a day before our tenancy expires so that he would not get a chance to do that... thoughts?

The tenancy agreement has no details about notice that we have to give at all! Also, on 1 page of the agreement is just says: Initial agreement 12 months (6 month break out clause) But nowhere in the agreement does it state the terms or specifics of this break out clause. I just assumed (could be dangerous I know) that, that is how our one would work..?

Hi there, I'm new to the forum, so please bear with me I have a question regarding the 6 month break out clause. In a previous flat that I rented, I was able to leave in the 8th month of a tenancy agreement because of this clause: The Landlord hereby agrees that the Tenant shall have the right to terminate this agreement by giving to the landlord or his agent not less than one months advance notice in writing to expire not before 15/05/2009 of his intention to do so such notice to be delivered to the Landlord or his agent or sent by registered post or recorded delivery to the premises of the Landlords agent. My lease ran from 15/11/08 - 14/11/09, so to my understanding this meant that I was able to leave anytime after 6 months, but had to give 1 months notice. My new lease agreement however, states that there is a 6 month break out clause, but nowhere in the lease does it state how this works...what usually happens in this case? Is the clause that I have given above a standard one that I can fall back on? I am now 9 months into my lease and have given 1 months notice, but when I spoke to the estate agent, they said that I could not do that and that I had to stay the full 12 months. The only time I could have left was at 6 months. Is this true? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Tania