hi,
I am helping an old aunt (landlord) to seek some advices on
rental of his hdb flat. Last year she rented her flat to the
present tenant. The contract was 1 year and it would end
soon, and the agent turn up to ask for agent fee from both the
landlord and tenant for renewal. The agent ask for 0.5 months
from both parties. A total of 1 month for renewal of 2nd
year.
The questions are:
1. tenant want to stay for another 2 years, but agent say
have to renewal every year and pay the agent fee yearly. No
such thing as renew 2 years.
2. agent say landlord, by law, cannot talk to tenant on
renewal. Everything go through agent.
3. agent open receipt to ask both parties to pay 0.5
months each. Total of 1 month.
4. both landlord and tenant, blur blur sign the tenancy
agreement.
Someone can help with the above questions?
Both landlord and tenant are simple people, don't know law (who
does?). 0.5 month to each of them is quite a sum of
money. What can they do?
simple.look at the contract.
agents usually put in a clause for renewals....but from what I
have seen...these clauses are pretty simple in the sense that they
only state to pay the agent when contract gets renewed
once...havent seen things like cannot sign 2 years.where got by law
landlord cannot talk to tenant about renewal?who's law?most likely
agent's law because agent scared they come out with some idea to
bypass the agent fee...
bottom line is...dig out the contract and see.
