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Before signing, you must send your contract to the Rental Team South Limburg, who will inspect for free to ensure everything is reasonable and legal. You might have to wait up to one working week to hear back from them. We comprehend that the whole rental procedure is busy and that there might not be adequate time for agreement checks, so if this is not possible, then you should go through your agreement yourself. The document will likely be in Dutch, so non-Dutch speakers will wish to get it equated.

When checking your contract, you must take note of:

1. fixed or indefinite contract

An agreement for a fixed period includes a last date. This implies that the contract ends instantly after the agreed period, supplied that the property owner notifies the occupant in blogging about the end of the lease in great time (in between one and 3 months before the agreed end-date). Indefinite occupancy agreements continue as long as the renter keeps paying lease and the proprietor does not terminate the contract. These agreements usually come with a minimum term, before which the renter may not end the lease.

2. Basic lease and additional charges

The fundamental lease is expected to show the quality and area of the residential or commercial property. This rental rate only includes the real lease. Added fees might be gas, water and electrical energy, service costs, web and home insurance. When it comes to rent, it is necessary to comprehend the distinction between fundamental lease and added fees. Check our area on rental rates to discover how the system works.

3. Rent increase

Rent increases are controlled by law, and depend upon whether your lodging falls under the social or personal housing sector. For social sector lodging, lease boosts may be explained in your rental agreement, or can even be proposed by your property manager a minimum of 2 months before the rent increase would work. You as an occupant can reject the proposition, and your case might wind up before the Rent Tribunal. As a basic rule, rent increases can take place once every 12 months, and generally occur on July 1st. The optimum annual lease increase percentage for the social sector is figured out by the government.

There are less guidelines applying to private sector lodging, which indicates that as a renter you have less security. Rent can increase every 12 months, however, increases in between these 12 months are likewise possible if enhancements have been made to the lodging. The property owner is not obliged to alert you of any rent increases within a set time period. If the occupant does not want to pay higher lease, the property manager might terminate the agreement. Watch out for provisions in your agreement indicating a set annual rent increase (so-called indexation stipulations). If no indexation clause is consisted of in the agreement, the landlord can only increase the lease by providing the renter a brand-new agreement stipulating the greater lease (to name a few things). If the occupant does not concur to the brand-new agreement for the exact same residential or commercial property, the property manager may then end the contract.

4. Deposit quantity and return

A deposit is typically needed, but any amount worth more than two months of rent is normally thought about unreasonable. The agreement needs to plainly specify how and when your deposit will be moved back to you.

Should you sign even if the agreement is not ideal?

If a contract appears extremely burdensome on you as a renter, or looks questionable, it might be a great idea to let it go. Even if you're lacking time to discover a location, it may trigger you more difficulty in the long-term to sign a bad contract than to look for short-lived lodging while you make the effort to find something that's genuinely worth it.

If you find a place that you really like, the agreement is acceptable, and the only problem is that the lease is a little steep (EUR750+), it can sometimes be a good idea to sign, as there is a chance you might get some money back by using to the Huurteam Zuid-Limburg. You need to tread extremely thoroughly here, as there is a caveat: in scenarios like this, you constantly require to presume the worst and be prepared to pay this high lease completely, on the occasion that the Huurteam Zuid-Limburg can not assist you claim any excess rent back. If you do sign a contract you discover costly, contact HTZL within 6 months to start a treatment declaring back any excess rent.

You can check out more about treatments to claim back excess rent and agency charges here.

Terminating an agreement

Terminating a contract can be a tricky procedure with lots of rules surrounding it. In the Netherlands there are mainly two types of rental agreements: an agreement for a defined duration and an agreement for an undefined duration. It is extremely useful to understand which one you have, because it might make a distinction in how you should end your agreement. The default rule is that tenancy agreements need to be terminated by offering notification. this means that you as a renter send your landlord an official letter notifying them that you want to end the rental agreement. You do not need to supply a factor for termination, and termination remains in concept unilateral, which means that you don't need the landlord to grant it.

Contract for an undefined duration

In this kind of contract, a minimum period (for instance 12 months) is allowed. During this minimum period, you can not end your agreement, unless the . The landlord can set conditions to accept this, for instance, you might pay an extra month's lease or be required to find a beginner to take over the agreement. After the minimum duration you can end the agreement with the proper notification duration.

The advantage of this kind of agreement is that the property manager can not end your contract quickly. There needs to be legal factors.

Contract for a defined duration

In this type of agreement (frequently a 12-month contract) there is a date the contract begins and a date the contract ends. This contract can not have a minimum duration and therefore you can end the contract during the specified period if you offer correct notice.

The downside is that the proprietor has a simple method to terminate your agreement on the end date of the specified period. The property manager just requires to let you understand 1 to 3 months before the end date that the contract is going to end, they do not require legal reasons to end the agreement on that date. If the property manager does not remind the renter of completion date and the renter lives longer than the defined duration, the contract immediately turns into a contract for an undefined duration. You do not need a new agreement for that, the old agreement immediately changes, and the rest of the agreement stays legitimate.

If you want to terminate your agreement as a renter, often the agreement lets you understand how to provide correct notice. This can be a contact form via a site of a company, or an e-mail to the landlord/agency. If the agreement does not discuss how to provide notification, the right way to end the agreement is sending out a letter by means of registered post, mentioning that you desire to end the rental contract per that date. You could also email the letter initially, but if you do not get an action, you ought to still send out the letter by means of registered post to be sure. We suggest that you send both a letter and an e-mail. You can download a sample of a formal letter notifying here.

You still must deal with a correct notice period when cancelling your rent. Normally, the notice equals the term of payment, which has actually been jotted down in the agreement. For example, if you pay rent monthly, you should offer one month's notification . Unless in a different way mentioned in the rental agreement, the cancellation of the rent requires to be received by the property manager before the very first day of the month.

One FULL month (e.g. meaning you can not end the contract on the 15th of April for the 16th of May. If you notify on the 15th of April, you can only end the agreement by the 31st of May/1st of June).