Vacant, next tenancy, end of tenancy

The property is the file; tenancies come and go on it. Ending a tenancy does not delete anything, and a new tenancy is a new record.

Who this is for: letting agencies and landlords.

Properties filtered to vacant.

People: Set up next tenancy, alongside the current tenants.

What you are deciding

Whether the property is ending a tenancy, sitting vacant, or about to be let again.

Your options

• End the current tenancy. Record the end date on People → Edit tenancy. It cannot be before the tenancy started.
• Set up the next tenancy now. Use Set up next tenancy while the current one runs. Its start date must be after the current tenancy ends.
• Start a tenancy on a vacant property. Use Start tenancy on the People tab: tenants, rent and start date.
• Withdraw a tenancy that has not started. Withdraw it instead of recording an end date.

How to do it

1. Open the property and choose People.
2. To end the tenancy, select Edit tenancy, enter the end date and save.
3. To let it again, select Set up next tenancy (or Start tenancy if it is vacant).
4. Add the tenants, the rent and the start date.
5. Work through Tenancy → Moving in for the new tenancy.

Re-letting after a Ground 1 or 1A notice

If a notice was given on Ground 1 or 1A, the property cannot be re-let for twelve months. Abide.Rent shows the date and refuses a new tenancy before it.

A worked example

The tenancy at 8 Parkhills Road ends on Saturday 31 October 2026. On Monday 5 October the agency records the end date and selects Set up next tenancy: two new tenants, £980.00 a month, starting Sunday 1 November 2026. The old tenancy, its notices and its rent history stay on the property.

What Abide.Rent does for you

• Keeps every past tenancy, with its people and documents, on the property.
• Checks the next tenancy starts after the current one ends.
• Shows vacant properties in a filter on Properties.

If something goes wrong

• “The current tenancy ends on … The next tenancy must start after that date.”
  What to do: Choose a start date after the current tenancy's end date, or record the end date first.
• “This tenancy has not started yet. Withdraw it instead of recording an end date.”
  What to do: Withdraw the tenancy.
• “The end date … cannot be before the tenancy started …”
  What to do: Check the end date.
• A new tenancy is refused after a Ground 1 or 1A notice
  What to do: The property cannot be re-let until the date shown. See re-letting after a Ground 1 or 1A notice.

Common mistakes

• Recording an end date on a tenancy that never started; withdraw it instead.
• Editing the current tenancy's tenants to start a new let. Set up the next tenancy instead, so each tenancy keeps its own people.

What to do next

• Open Properties
• Moving in and out
• Re-letting after a Ground 1 or 1A notice