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My friend has been a lodger for the last few months and moved in on 26th May.

My friend's contract was for 6 months but she asked to leave early due to COVID and the landlord gave her the two weeks notice and agreed. She was given notice to move out by 25th September and had paid monthly on 26th.

She moved out on 26th and the landlord charged her for an extra day.

She also charged ?12 for cleaning


the landlord said she could have charged a full period of rent as she overstayed.


Who is correct? My friend wants to claim the money as this was a deduction from her deposit.


Thanks

Angie

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The landlord has allowed the tenant to break the contract early, and also leave with just 2 week's notice, standard is a month (assuming an AST was signed). Hardly strikes me as a mean-spirited person. Again, using the hotel analogy, should a hotel let a room out for free just because they don't have another guest lined up the next day?...

sorry - actually, it's lodger my mum took in over lockdown. He wanted to move out early, she gave him more notice than she needed to, he wasn't happy with the dates and refused to move on time and got quite nasty. She charged him one extra day and now he's taking her to small claims court for ?30, which is a day plus cleaning (he said it was her responsibility).


I thought I might get a different response if I said it was me on the difficult end.


She could easily just give him the money but he's been threatening and quite spiteful, so we just wanted to see what other people thought.

Some landlords are more formal some are not but obviously it's past the leave day and the contract will say whats what.


I had Landlords who would let me get away with murder (not literally) when I rented but the same ones would also turn up out the blue to show someone around or ask for some favour (technically breaching your peace and quiet so what goes around comes around in terms of formality).


The very first landlord I had I never saw - just an agent and then only 3 times in 2 years - and it was a lovely flat in Docklands but they'd have thrown the book at me if I broke the rules. Many would prefer this arrangement.

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