contract-law united-kingdom rental-property
Rental Agent claiming an admin fee from 2 years ago
<p>(Context Details: UK, renting in London. Agent is Foxtons.)</p>

<p>I've just left a rental property after 3 years there.
The landlord has authorised the full return of the deposit, but the rental agency has turned around and said that there's £96 of annual renewal fees outstanding.</p>

<p>I've proved that I paid the fee 1 year ago, and I have several emails from them discussing the "outstanding balance" from the points at which the monthly rent changed, but they're now asserting that the outstanding fee is from 2 years ago, and that those conversations were about the RENTAL balance only (and thus don't pertain to any administration fee balance).</p>

<p>As far as I can tell they are technically right - there's an email from 2 years ago asserting that they WILL invoice me for the renewal, but no actual INVOICE for that (that I received) and it looks like all the payments I made add up to cover the rent and NOT the renewal fee.</p>

<p>So I think their assertions about what happened are correct.</p>

<p>Question: Am I actually obligated to pay this fee?
If they didn't invoice me CAN they turn around 2 years later and say "we should totally have charged you for this." The Ts&amp;Cs do state that there will be such a fee.</p>

<p>If it's in the contract, you must pay it. You can claim money up to the statute of limitations which will almost certainly be more than 2 years.</p>
