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Sharjah, UAE

Penalty for the extension of a tenancy contract

Dear Sir/ Mam,

I am staying in Sharjah. We stayed in the same flat for the last 2 years. Our contract is ended on May 5th. But as we are migrating to another country we requested our landlord to stay here till June end 2 months back. He agreed to the same at that time.

Now he is asking to give 3 months more rent from June as a penalty to settle the things. Our contract already finished now.

Please advice what to do as we are not in a good financial position to give 3-month rent without staying.

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24 May 2017, 12:08

The landlord is not entitled to impose penalties or fines as long as you gave the proper notice and the tenancy period/term ended. You only need to pay him for the extra amount of period you stayed for and that is it.

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