I just recently relocated from Bangkok to Phuket with my thai wife and our young child. It took a while but we finally found a nice house here and signed a contract for 18 months. We gave up our lease in Bangkok took our kid out of kindergarden and hired a moving company to move all our furniture into the house. Never fun doing a big move but happy when it was all done.
We signed the contract with a big rental management company. The owner of the house is a foreigner and works abroad so they manage the house for him. Before we moved in they rented it out on airbnb.
To my surprise I this morning woke up with a text from the rental management company telling me that the owner of the house needed to come back to Phuket and wanted to break the contract and we needed to be out in 3 weeks and would not have to pay for the last 2 weeks.
We have not even lived in the house for 2 months yet. And nowhere in the contract is there a cancelation clause where its says the owner can give us 90 days notice to move out or anything of that nature.
I have polity but firmly let the rentals management company know that we wont accept this and intend to stay. Tomorrow will will contact the board of consumer protection and have a lawyer look thru our contract just to make sure we are in our full right to stay in the house.
My hope is I can solve this issue directly with the management company. But I did get a little bit annoyed that they thought it was perfectly ok just to send me a text message giving me 3 weeks notice, which is absolutely nothing when we most likely have the right to stay the full period of 18months anyways.
I obviously dont want to be in a position where all of a sudden I have an angry owner knocking on my door. I dont expect it to get that far since there is a rental company in between. On the other hand I dont want to just accept that I have to move my family out of the house in such a small amount of time and I have no interest in spending my time looking for a new place and do the whole process again.
Had it said in the contract the owner at any given time could ask us to leave with 3 weeks notice, we never would have signed the contract. Its a rather expensive and beautiful house that I no doubt got a great deal on.
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Owner wants to break lease contract
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Hi
I just recently relocated from Bangkok to Phuket with my thai wife and our young child. It took a while but we finally found a nice house here and signed a contract for 18 months. We gave up our lease in Bangkok took our kid out of kindergarden and hired a moving company to move all our furniture into the house. Never fun doing a big move but happy when it was all done.
We signed the contract with a big rental management company. The owner of the house is a foreigner and works abroad so they manage the house for him. Before we moved in they rented it out on airbnb.
To my surprise I this morning woke up with a text from the rental management company telling me that the owner of the house needed to come back to Phuket and wanted to break the contract and we needed to be out in 3 weeks and would not have to pay for the last 2 weeks.
We have not even lived in the house for 2 months yet. And nowhere in the contract is there a cancelation clause where its says the owner can give us 90 days notice to move out or anything of that nature.
I have polity but firmly let the rentals management company know that we wont accept this and intend to stay. Tomorrow will will contact the board of consumer protection and have a lawyer look thru our contract just to make sure we are in our full right to stay in the house.
My hope is I can solve this issue directly with the management company. But I did get a little bit annoyed that they thought it was perfectly ok just to send me a text message giving me 3 weeks notice, which is absolutely nothing when we most likely have the right to stay the full period of 18months anyways.
I obviously dont want to be in a position where all of a sudden I have an angry owner knocking on my door. I dont expect it to get that far since there is a rental company in between. On the other hand I dont want to just accept that I have to move my family out of the house in such a small amount of time and I have no interest in spending my time looking for a new place and do the whole process again.
Had it said in the contract the owner at any given time could ask us to leave with 3 weeks notice, we never would have signed the contract. Its a rather expensive and beautiful house that I no doubt got a great deal on.
Any advice on how to handle it from here on?
Thx