Oddball lease offer
Posted: March 6th, 2019, 7:23 pm
CC#2 ( a student ) has been offered a lease on a 4 bedroom house. She and friend are being asked to sign a lease on the basis that
the Landlord hereby agrees to let and the Tenants agrees ( sic) to take the Property known as:- redacted
2……… (No. of bedrooms / No. of Tenants) …2
The body of the rest of the lease is clearly drafted on the basis of a normal joint tenancy for the whole house, subject to the reduction of the anticipated rent for 4 bedrooms to that for 2.
But the landlord seems to be under the impression that they can still create another lease* over the remaining two bedrooms ( involving people over whom there is no suggestion CC#2 would have a veto ) which would inevitably require access to the kitchen / living areas. Clearly they have come up with a bodge to get a tenancy, but trying to have cake and eat it, to coin a phrase.
The whole thing looks weird to me. I'm wondering whether if such a document were signed, the landlord would be committed to leasing the whole property to the tenants of that lease, without the option of bringing in additional occupants. If not, what is this arrangement? Any comments gratefully received.
* I assume this would be a mirror of what I have seen - purporting to rent the premises but with the addition of the number of bedrooms involved.
the Landlord hereby agrees to let and the Tenants agrees ( sic) to take the Property known as:- redacted
2……… (No. of bedrooms / No. of Tenants) …2
The body of the rest of the lease is clearly drafted on the basis of a normal joint tenancy for the whole house, subject to the reduction of the anticipated rent for 4 bedrooms to that for 2.
But the landlord seems to be under the impression that they can still create another lease* over the remaining two bedrooms ( involving people over whom there is no suggestion CC#2 would have a veto ) which would inevitably require access to the kitchen / living areas. Clearly they have come up with a bodge to get a tenancy, but trying to have cake and eat it, to coin a phrase.
The whole thing looks weird to me. I'm wondering whether if such a document were signed, the landlord would be committed to leasing the whole property to the tenants of that lease, without the option of bringing in additional occupants. If not, what is this arrangement? Any comments gratefully received.
* I assume this would be a mirror of what I have seen - purporting to rent the premises but with the addition of the number of bedrooms involved.