Even if you don`t have a written contract with your tenant, there is a lease. Under section 54(2) of the Law of Property Act 1925, there is a rental agreement as soon as a tenant starts paying the rent. If the lease includes an interruption clause, it gives both parties the option to terminate the contract, usually at the six-month mark. You will find the exact information in the rental agreement. Even if you do not have an oral agreement, but you live in a property made available to you by your landlord and you pay rent that is accepted, the law will recognize that there is a rental agreement between the two of you. A rental agreement cannot be a guaranteed short-term rental agreement if: a rental agreement exists even if there is only an oral agreement between you and your landlord. For example, you and your landlord may have agreed, at the beginning of the lease, on the amount of rent and the date it must be paid, whether it contains fuel, or whether your landlord can decide who else can reside in the unit. . . .