UK Landlord Forum / Life

I'm a new boy to all this. The downloadable ASTs you find on the Internet all seem to be meant to be used at the very beginning of a tenancy, and include stuff about the deposit etc which is only relevant at that point. What happens 6 months later?  Do you have to give the tenant a new form to sign? Should one envisage a specific time limit again? Or can you just get him to sign a simple declaration that things will go on as before? (But how do you allow for eventual rent reviews?)
Robin G

Hey Robin,

You can get the tenant to sign a new contract after the contracted period. However, at the end of the term if the tenancy agreement is not renewed, it then becomes what is known as a Statutory Periodic Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreement. The terms of the original tenancy agreement still apply, but the tenancy continues on an month by month basis.

More about it here:
Assured Shorthold Tenancy Agreement