Can a landlord request 2 weeks rent in advance?

A landlord or agent can request a tenant pays rent up to 2 weeks in advance, but no more. A landlord or agent cannot ask for further rent payments until all paid rent has been used. For example: a tenancy agreement begins on 1 November. A tenant pays 4 weeks rent as bond and 2 weeks rent in advance.

When does a landlord have to give a tenant one month’s rent?

The landlord must honestly intend to use the rental site for the purposes stated on the notice to end the tenancy. When a landlord ends a tenancy for landlord’s use of property, the landlord must give the tenant the equivalent of one month’s rent on or before the effective date of the landlord’s notice.

What happens if a landlord is 30 days late on rent?

A: Unless there is a provision in the lease allowing them to break it (for example, if the tenant gives 30 days’ notice that he wants to move, then he can exit the lease), then they are still legally liable for any and all past-due payments and future rent payments until the landlord decides to rent to someone else.

What happens if a tenant stays past the lease term?

If the tenant somehow ends up staying past the lease term, don’t accept any rent payments from them. Once you start collecting rent, the tenancy becomes a month-to-month tenancy, and you won’t be able to treat them as a trespasser and evict them.

Is it possible to get a month to month lease?

Most month to month leases also allow a landlord to adjust the rent to the market rate. This means your rent could go up. One of the challenges of finding a month to month lease is they aren’t always offered as an option. In fact, finding a short-term lease like a 3 or 6-month lease can be difficult as well.

When does the lease term start and end?

This is because, most of the time, the “lease term” specified on the lease document “starts” on the commencement date. So, if the commencement date in a lease document was January 1, 2020 and the lease term specified in the document was 24 months, then the lease end date would be January 1, 2022. You’ve probably seen language in a lease as follows:

Do you have to pay rent the first day of the month?

Although you need to “take possession” of the rental by receiving keys and so forth, if you’re unable to be there on the first day of your lease (let’s just say that’s November 1), it will still be your responsibility to pay the rent for the entire month.

Which is correct’the rent of 2 months’or’two months’rent’?

The phrase means “the rent of two months”. Months is made plural by adding an s to month. When something belongs to something else, we use the possesive apostrophe. This is why months’s looks like a reasonable construction. However, when a plural has a possessive apostrophe we drop…