Rental Lease with a non-fixed term

Mellor

I'm looking to move out of my place tsoon.
It's a shared accommodation, each person deals with the landlord direct, ie we don't split the total rent, it is fixed per room regardless of of many rooms are empty.
I have a standard bond of 4 weeks.
I told the land lord that I'm moving out, I gave two weeks notice. They insist that I find somebody to take my room or else I forfeit my bond.
There is no fixed term. I could understand their standpoint if I was break a lease agreement. But I am not.

What are my rights. I read the fairtrading.nsw.gov.au guidelines but they only mention ending at the end of a fixed lease. Is a non fixed term even legal?

Vorsprung

This:

http://www.tenants.org.au/publish/factsheet-09-you-want-to-leave/index.php

would suggest you have to give 3 weeks. At the end of the day though, it would come down to what your lease says.

Mellor

Typical, next site has it right there.

21 days. Bingo.
Bond will be returned.

Mellor

Vorsprung wrote: »

This:

http://www.tenants.org.au/publish/factsheet-09-you-want-to-leave/index.php

would suggest you have to give 3 weeks. At the end of the day though, it would come down to what your lease says.

Yeah, that's the site I opened up, our posts were the same minute

It wouldn't matter what the lease says, the law is the law. A lease can't have illegal conditions, or else the law would be pointless really

ArseBurger

Mellor wrote: »

Yeah, that's the site I opened up, our posts were the same minute

It wouldn't matter what the lease says, the law is the law. A lease can't have illegal conditions, or else the law would be pointless really

Is your bond registered?

Mellor

LL's angle is that i'm technically a lodger, so no rights for me
cnut