In the UK a written tenancy agreement is not mandatory. If you pay rent and have access to accommodation a six month term assured shorthold is automatically created. So you may leave at the end of this period. The landlord may agree to release you early as this one has. So unless you can find a replacement you are stuck with staying, or at least paying, until the end of the term. I expect WENDEL HOMES is either an American or away with the fairies.

You don't need anything in writing or to have signed anything to have created a lease. The fact of moving in and paying rent creates the contract. The landlord can allow you to move out early if he wishes but he certainly doesn't need to agree. Basic law will apply and even if you did have a lease the law would take precedence over anything within it. When you move in and pay rent a contract is created, you are bound by the contract just as much as the landlord is. If you don't like your blinds put something of your own up. Lying there with the sun in your eyes and feeling hard done by is more than immature. A bit like the princess with the pea under her mattress.

Hi.

If you have not received a copy of the agreement then it is highly likely that you have ever signed one... Therefore if you never signed this is no agreement and you are free to go.

Some advice:

Many landlords take a deposit and say this is to cover any damage to their property, this is fair enough if you have input i.e. Photographic evidence signed on the back by the landlord to verify the condition you took the property rental agreement on with.

Therefore when your rental agreement expires you can compare the photo's and agree if damage is caused or not thereby getting your deposit returned in full if the original state is maintained and any damage is not attributable to you or other tenants.

Read your agreement. You have to stick by whatever you signed for. Not "seeing eye to eye" with a house mate isn't a valid reason to leave.

Talk to your student adviser/accommodation officer (or whatever your uni calls it). They can help even if the property isn't registered with them.

Hi everyone :)

I recently moved into a student property two months ago. After realising I wanted my own space and not seeing eye to eye with a house mate I asked my landlord if I could move out.

He said ok if I found someone to take my room. Now It has taken a long time to even sort that.

He was supposed to fix my blinds and never has. Ordered a new set and went to install them but instead put them in for someone else. Now every morning I wake up to sunlight flooding in and have less privacy. It's small things like never showing up to fix things that is turning into a problem.

He said I could move out and asked when then said no they pulled out. He hasn't registered the property with uni so I can't advertise it in there.

Now I looked at my new housemates tenancy agreement and hers is a lot more detailed which leads me to believe he has forgotten to print it on, surely I am not bound by his conditions because they aren't there? It has no contract on it!

I requested a copy three weeks ago and he still hasn't given it to me. He said he was dropping it off but said I wasn't in so couldn't. This is ridiculous I can't even check my tenancy agreement. I know I should of kept a copy when he asked for it back.

thanks everyone