ASK466: Should I splash out on staging? PLUS: Can my tenants just leave like this?

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Happy Tuesday! It’s time for another episode of Ask Rob & Rob, where we dive into your property questions. (0:40) Jackie’s tenants signed a one-year agreement but gave notice and moved out two months early. She wants to know if they're obliged to pay rent until the end of the contract, or until their notice period ends. What advice will Rob & Rob give? (0:30) John’s renovating a small mid-terrace in an upmarket area with the intention of selling and asks the guys if it’s worth staging the property to potentially attract higher bids. Enjoy the show? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts - it really helps others find us! Sign up for our free weekly newsletter, Property Pulse Send us your question by calling us on 013 808 00035 and leaving a message with your name and question (normal UK call rates apply) or click here to leave a recording via your computer instead. Find out more about Property Hub Invest

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rob.
0:03.2	And I'm Rob.
0:03.9	And this is Ask Rob and Rob.
0:06.8	Welcome to Ask Rob and Rob. It's Tuesday. That means we've got two more questions and two more answers.
0:11.9	We're going to get to those questions in just a sec. But first, a reminder, Rob, of how people can send questions of their own.
0:17.3	You just go to one place. Propertyhub.net forward slash ask. That's property hub.
0:23.1	Dot net forward slash ask. There, you can directly leave a message or leave a voicemail there.
0:28.5	Or you can even get your question over to us that we may answer in the Sunday Times because we also
0:33.5	answer property questions every Sunday in the Sunday times. Okay, let's listen to our first question.
0:38.8	This is from Jackie.
0:40.4	Hi, Rob and Rob.
0:41.6	It's Jackie here.
0:42.7	Thank you so much for all the invaluable content in your podcasts and love listening to all
0:47.4	the information and it's been of great use to me.
0:50.2	My question is, I have tenants who agreed to a one-year AST ending on the 6th of March this year.
0:59.2	However, on the 19th of December, they gave me one month's notice as they wanted to move out of the
1:06.1	apartment. Are they obliged to pay the full 12 months rental? They pay monthly. Are they obliged to pay the full 12 months rental they pay monthly are they obliged to pay up until the
1:14.7	6th of March when the tenancy agreement ends or do they only pay until the day that they move
1:22.3	out of the apartment which they have given me one month's notice for. I appreciate your response and I look forward to
1:29.3	listening to many future podcasts. Thank you very much. Jackie, thank you for your question.
1:34.0	The answer is simple in a way and not so simple in another. So the simple answer is they need to
1:40.3	pay up to the end of the term. So if they agree to a year up until the 6th of March, they need to be paying you up until the 6th of March. In the absence of a break clause or anything
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