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Before signing, you should send your agreement to the Rental Team South Limburg, who will examine for free to make certain everything is sensible and legal. You may have to wait as much as one working week to hear back from them. We comprehend that the entire rental procedure is fast-paced and that there might not suffice time for agreement checks, so if this is not possible, then you ought to go through your contract yourself. The document will likely remain in Dutch, so non-Dutch speakers will desire to get it equated.

When checking your agreement, you must focus on:

1. repaired or indefinite contract

An agreement for a set duration consists of a last date. This implies that the contract ends instantly after the predetermined period, offered that the proprietor notifies the tenant in writing about completion of the lease in excellent time (between one and three months before the agreed end-date). Indefinite occupancy contracts continue as long as the occupant keeps paying lease and the landlord does not terminate the agreement. These contracts typically include a minimum term, before which the tenant might not terminate the lease.

2. Basic rent and service charges

The basic rent is supposed to reflect the quality and area of the residential or commercial property. This rental cost only consists of the real rent. Service charges may be gas, water and electrical power, service costs, internet and home insurance. When it comes to rent, it is necessary to comprehend the difference between basic rent and added fees. Check our area on rental rates to discover how the system works.

3. Rent increase

Rent increases are managed by law, and depend on whether your lodging falls under the social or private housing sector. For social sector accommodation, lease boosts might be explained in your rental agreement, or can even be proposed by your property manager a minimum of 2 months before the lease boost would take effect. You as an occupant can reject the proposition, and your case might end up before the Rent Tribunal. As a general rule, lease increases can take place as soon as every 12 months, and normally happen on July 1st. The maximum annual lease increase percentage for the social sector is determined by the federal government.

There are less guidelines applying to economic sector accommodation, which indicates that as a tenant you have less security. Rent can increase every 12 months, nevertheless, increases in between these 12 months are also possible if enhancements have actually been made to the lodging. The property owner is not required to inform you of any rent increases within a set time period. If the tenant does not desire to pay greater rent, the proprietor might end the agreement. Look out for stipulations in your agreement indicating a set annual rent increase (so-called indexation clauses). If no indexation provision is included in the agreement, the property owner can just increase the lease by providing the tenant a brand-new contract stipulating the higher lease (to name a few things). If the tenant does not consent to the brand-new contract for the exact same residential or commercial property, the property owner might then terminate the contract.

4. Deposit quantity and return

A deposit is generally needed, but any amount worth more than 2 months of rent is generally thought about unjust. The contract must clearly define how and when your deposit will be moved back to you.

Should you sign even if the agreement is not perfect?

If a contract seems extremely challenging on you as a renter, or looks questionable, it might be a good idea to let it go. Even if you're running out of time to find a place, it may cause you more difficulty in the long-term to sign a bad agreement than to try to find momentary lodging while you put in the time to find something that's genuinely worth it.

If you find a place that you actually love, the agreement is satisfying, and the only is that the lease is a little high (EUR750+), it can often be a great idea to sign, as there is a chance you might get some refund by applying to the Huurteam Zuid-Limburg. You need to tread really thoroughly here, as there is a caution: in circumstances like this, you always require to assume the worst and be prepared to pay this high lease in full, in the event that the Huurteam Zuid-Limburg can not assist you claim any excess lease back. If you do sign an agreement you find costly, contact HTZL within six months to begin a procedure declaring back any excess lease.

You can learn more about treatments to declare back excess rent and agency fees here.

Terminating a contract

Terminating a contract can be a tricky process with great deals of rules surrounding it. In the Netherlands there are mainly two types of rental arrangements: an agreement for a specified duration and an agreement for an undefined period. It is very helpful to understand which one you have, since it might make a distinction in how you need to terminate your contract. The default guideline is that tenancy contracts have to be ended by offering notice. this implies that you as a tenant send your landlord a formal letter informing them that you wish to end the rental arrangement. You do not need to provide a factor for termination, and termination is in concept unilateral, which implies that you don't need the proprietor to grant it.

Contract for an undefined period

In this type of agreement, a minimum duration (for example 12 months) is permitted. During this minimum duration, you can not end your contract, unless the proprietor concurs. The property owner can set conditions to concur to this, for instance, you might pay an additional month's lease or be needed to find a beginner to take control of the agreement. After the minimum duration you can end the contract with the proper notice duration.

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

Contract for a defined period

In this kind of agreement (usually a 12-month agreement) there is a date the agreement begins and a date the agreement ends. This agreement can not have a minimum duration and therefore you can end the agreement during the specified period if you provide appropriate notice.

The drawback is that the proprietor has a simple way to terminate your contract on completion date of the specified duration. The property manager only requires to let you know 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 tenant of the end date and the renter lives longer than the defined duration, the contract automatically turns into a contract for an undefined period. You do not need a new contract for that, the old contract automatically changes, and the rest of the agreement remains valid.

If you wish to terminate your agreement as a tenant, typically the agreement lets you know how to provide correct notification. This can be a contact kind through a website of a company, or an e-mail to the landlord/agency. If the contract does not discuss how to provide notification, the appropriate method to end the agreement is sending out a letter via signed up post, specifying that you wish to end the rental arrangement per that date. You could likewise email the letter initially, however if you do not get a response, you must still send out the letter through signed up post to be sure. We suggest that you send out both a letter and an email. You can download a sample of a formal letter offering notice here.

You still must deal with a right notification period when cancelling your rent. Normally, the notice equates to the term of payment, which has been jotted down in the agreement. For instance, if you pay rent monthly, you need to give one month's notification . Unless in a different way specified in the rental arrangement, the cancellation of the lease needs to be gotten by the landlord before the very first day of the month.

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