Is the landlord correct?
Hi, I would be grateful for any advice you may have out there. We have a 2 year lease on our villa, 16 months are left, our circumstances have changed so we let the landlord know we would be leaving on january 31st. He asked if we could get someone else to take over our lease. We did this! Tonight when the person who was willing to take over the lease went to sign to take it over the landlord said he needed a 5,000 commission and a new agreeement to be signed for 2 years.
The guy refused so we are left without anyone, was the landlord within his rights to do this?
dont pay him apenny,you are only obliged to fullfil the tenancy agreement,
Here is what you need to do to jak out:
1- check if he registered this tenancy agreement with the Municipaly,there is an office in RAYAN for such purpose,only then he can take you to court and request the remaining balance,if not,go ahead and cancel the damn cheques.he would not get a single penny off your account.Remeber you can not cancel cheques here unless you report them to the police,so better you close the account all together.
For me, since there is someone willing to take over the lease, you have 2 good options and select your preference if your tenor may not agree with an early termination of contract:
1)Enter to a Contract of Assignment with this guy willing to take over the villa or;
2)Sublet the villa.
He has no right to ask commission from you. With the early termination of contract, the tenor is entitled for an amount compensatory to what has been agreed upon in the contract, under normal circumstances unless there has been a want on the part of the tenor?
What commission? hahaha stupid. he is the landlord and he is asking for commission? strange hahaha. Even then, you were the one looking for somebody to continue the lease contract so why the commission for him? you should be given the commission instead if that makes sense.
Thank you all for your input think I may go see a lawyer tomorrow.
I think if you gave him time dated checks and you cancel your account when you leave how will he get more money from you? Most rights are for the tenants your trying to help him.
if there is no termination clause in ur contract then the default maximum notice is 3 months, he cannot ask u to replace the tenant with someone unless this was mentioned in the contract.
Always have termination clause mentioned in the contract before u sign it.
No, he is not in his right to demand this. But you are stuck with the tenancy agreement, so he just sees how far he can go.
I think if there was anything in the contract that answered the above question then I wouldn't have had to ask this question in a public forum?
What does ur contract say about termination of contract?