Soldato
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- 12 Feb 2006
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Our agreement has in place rent reviews every x years, with break out clause if we wanted at the same time. The landlord missed both the last 2, however now has a bee in his bonnet and wants to increase the rent twice, by almost 100%, and back date it.
now that's fine it's his decision, however we'd not have agreed to either of the rent increases, especially as it would have been during covid, and the landlord has installed other tenants in the building that are so noisey that it's impossible to use the site as an office now, so we just use it for storage, which was fine at the lower rates, but not at these increased ones.
I guess i'm a bit nieve with this as all the 12 odd years we've been here, it's never been an issue, and the place was low price, but extremelly low quality in what it was, and low fuss due to the landlord being much more casual over that time e.g. the last rent review, the landlord come to us, sat down and just said, I want to increase the rent by 20%, starting in 2 months done.
now he's got another company invovled and it's a different story.
I wondered if anyone has any experience with a situation like this? For us to leave is no issue, we can find a storage location for cheaper than what we currently pay, it's just that they are trying to back date, and say as the dates have passed, we can't leave, but he can increase to whatever he felt is correct for those dates.
now that's fine it's his decision, however we'd not have agreed to either of the rent increases, especially as it would have been during covid, and the landlord has installed other tenants in the building that are so noisey that it's impossible to use the site as an office now, so we just use it for storage, which was fine at the lower rates, but not at these increased ones.
I guess i'm a bit nieve with this as all the 12 odd years we've been here, it's never been an issue, and the place was low price, but extremelly low quality in what it was, and low fuss due to the landlord being much more casual over that time e.g. the last rent review, the landlord come to us, sat down and just said, I want to increase the rent by 20%, starting in 2 months done.
now he's got another company invovled and it's a different story.
I wondered if anyone has any experience with a situation like this? For us to leave is no issue, we can find a storage location for cheaper than what we currently pay, it's just that they are trying to back date, and say as the dates have passed, we can't leave, but he can increase to whatever he felt is correct for those dates.