AS A TENANT, LOOK OUT FOR THIS CLAUSE IN YOUR TENANCY AGREEMENT.

Before you sign and agree to it, make sure you read and understand this post.

ONCE YOU SEE:

“For a Fix period/term of one year, beginning from so so date to so so date”

Maybe from Jan 1st, 2026 to December 31st, 2026.

This is the legal interpretation!

Your Landlord is informing you that, your tenancy is a fixed term tenancy and it will last for only one year.

So, you should know basically that you have only a year to use in that apartment/shop/warehouse and if you wish to stay beyond one year, you must inform your Landlord at least one or two months before your rent expires, to know if your Landlord will agree to let you stay for another one year.

Note that you do not inform your Landlord verbally, you inform your Landlord by going with another one year payment.

If the landlord accepts the payment, your renewal of another one year fixed tenancy is active and the landlord can give you a new tenancy agreement to sign again or the landlord will add this clause below, in the former tenancy agreement

>>>> “At the renewal of the tenancy, parties shall draw and execute a new agreement before the commencement of new term”…….However, where a new tenancy agreement is not drawn before the commencement of a further term, this agreement shall regulate the tenancy pending when a new tenancy agreement >>>>>

These are the key points to take note on this Fixed term tenancy agreement you want to sign.

If you sign it and agree to it:

1. You have agreed basically to waive off your right to Notice to Quit.

Nothing like Notice to Quit for you again, once your rent expires and the landlord does not want you again, what the Landlord will serve you is, SEVEN DAYS OWNERS INTENTION TO RECOVER PROPERTY.

2. You must renew your tenancy before it expires, at least two months or one month before it expires

3. Because you agreed to a fixed term tenancy, your eviction through court process will be very fast because, you have nothing to defend or use against your landlord once your rent expires officially.

Court will not delay to evict you once your Landlord file for your eviction in court, if you refuse to leave.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse