TheGiftedOne:
Sue the illiterate. After he appears in court more than once, he'll come back to his senses

carbon1224:




Your rent expires 17/03/2020 and he is correct and there is more to this. That’s exactly 12month

brownsugardr:
My Landlord Is Intimidating Me And Wants To Evict Me Before My Rent Expires

I paid my house rent for one full year on 18/04/2019. My rent is due to expire on 17/04/2020.

But my Landlord is insisting it expired on 17/03/2020. Which is Eleven months. I have tried explaining to him but he wants to lock me out unless I pay immediately.

Please how do I get redress.

carbon1224:




Your rent expires 17/03/2020 and he is correct and there is more to this. That’s exactly 12month

lastclaire4:


No you are wrong. The rent should expire a day to the anniversary. For example you pay for rent on the ist of January 2019 the anniversary is ist of January 2020 right? Then the rent should expire on the 31st of December 2019.

femi4:
you don't know maths

Your landlord is correct, April to March = 12 months
April to April =13months

Ed12:


January to December makes a year.

And not January to January!

brownsugardr:
My Landlord Is Intimidating Me And Wants To Evict Me Before My Rent Expires

I paid my house rent for one full year on 18/04/2019. My rent is due to expire on 17/04/2020.

But my Landlord is insisting it expired on 17/03/2020. Which is Eleven months. I have tried explaining to him but he wants to lock me out unless I pay immediately.

Please how do I get redress.

Right to Valid Quit Notice Before Eviction
As a tenant, your landlord is not legally empowered to throw you or your valuables out of his/her property without a valid notice to quit the property.

Before your landlord can get you to quit his/her property, there must be strict compliance with the Recovery of Premises Law and it has to be relevant. Your tenant rights makes you entitled to this.

According to the Recovery of Premises Law, a valid Quit Notice (Notice to Quit) must be written and served on you before your landlord can terminate your tenancy. The law is very clear on this.

The duration of the Quit Notice varies according to the conditions of your tenancy as seen below:

A one-year (or above) tenancy will require at least a notice of 6 months
A one-month tenancy will require a minimum notice of one month
A one-week tenancy will require a minimum notice of one week
It is important to add here that you and the landlord can agree on a totally different duration for the quit notice in the written agreement. What this means, for instance, is that despite the fact that the law stipulates that your landlord should give you a notice of 6 months to quit a tenancy of one year, it can be reduced to a month or a week’s notice through the written and signed agreement.

Real estate experts have repeatedly emphasised the need to go through the agreement with a property lawyer before you append your signature to a tenancy agreement. The real estate space is replete with stories of tenants like you who signed a tenancy agreement to be evicted without a ‘Notice to Quit’ without realising the full implication of what they were signing.

Never forget that the law does not care to know if you understood what you were signing or not. In law, this is known as ‘ignorantia legis non excuse‘ (ignorance of the law is no excuse). If you sign a legal agreement that limits your rights, you will be bound by the same agreement. Under the law, this is known as ‘volenti non fit injuria.’

Alvin007:

It's 6 months for annual tenancy.. 6 months notice of eviction.
I see a lot of peeps here do not know much about tenancy/lease agreements. In such tenancy agreements, a calendar year equates 11months, and not 12months.
Op, your landlord is right.

Bluehill1051:
Olodo! Why haven't you been celebrating your birthday one month earlier. Fool.
I see too many foolish people here on nairaland these days

hisexcellency34:
Even after you rent expires, you are entitled to six months without pay

oruhobinna:


Exactly, sue him.. Some landlords are just overly annoying and condescending

Vortex369:


Your Landlord is right, and you are wrong.

18/4/2019 to 17/3/2020 is exactly 12 months.

oruhobinna:


Exactly, sue him.. Some landlords are just overly annoying and condescending

Ed12:


January to December makes a year.

And not January to January!

cana882:
if tenancy is valid for 11 months according to your explanation, then subsequent renewal of rent will always be a month short. E.g I paid my first rent on 20 January, 2010; then the next will be, according to your explanation, on 20th December, 2011; next on 20th November, 2012; and in 2021, I would have paid for 12 years even if I stayed for 11 years. That’s a whole year rent cash gone.

ringi82:

Your landlord is actually right. The 18th of April you moved in is actually counted as a whole month in the eyes of the law, and that is how the receipt issued to you should read ; April to March following year

flokii:
@OP your landlord is right while you are wrong.

A calendar year is January - December not January - Jamuary

If you paid rent in April 2019, you next rent will be in March 2020.

Birthdays are different for those using beer parlour logic above.

Alvin007:

No. You're getting it wrong. It counts that way from the actual first payment date. Proceeding payments will read 12 full months. I hope you understand it?

Bigcowhorn:



Even so, he has a period of grace before he should move
At least 3 months according to Lagos Laws

I'm a landlord in 2 states and speak from bitter experience
Some of those bastards take a year to get out of my life

GoodBoi1:
Chai, this thread is embarrassing, some people don't know how to calculate simple date mathematics. The rent expires the day before his date of payment. That is 1 full year/ 365 days

brownsugardr:
My Landlord Is Intimidating Me And Wants To Evict Me Before My Rent Expires

I paid my house rent for one full year on 18/04/2019. My rent is due to expire on 17/04/2020.

But my Landlord is insisting it expired on 17/03/2020. Which is Eleven months. I have tried explaining to him but he wants to lock me out unless I pay immediately.

Please how do I get redress.

TotoNaRubber:

Tell your landlord according to the law, you are entitled to 6 months rent free.

Tell him he doesn't know the constitution.
But ensure u have a new place before this.

Ed12:


January to December makes a year.

And not January to January!

femi4:
18/04/2019-18/05/2019.....1month
18/05/2019-18/06/2019.....2months

Count like that
.
.
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18/02/2020-18/03/2020.......12months

Bluehill1051:
Olodo! Why haven't you been celebrating your birthday one month earlier. Fool.
I see too many foolish people here on nairaland these days