Rent Control to write tenancy agreements for landlords and tenants
Tenancy agreements between landlords and tenants will soon be written by the Rent Control Department.
This is to stem any disagreements between the two parties.
The new agreement will also be a win-win situation, unlike previous agreements where the landlords tend to benefit more than the tenants.
On Sunday, 24 May 2020, a landlord at Ofankor in Accra shot a tenant for refusing to quit his premises.
The landlord claimed he pulled the trigger as self-defence.
Chief Rent Officer Twumasi Ampofo believes drafting tenancy agreements for landlords and their tenants will help reduce the tensions that exist between the two.
“The rent control department and the ministry will now write the tenancy agreement for both landlord and tenant and that will benefit both parties. The current regulation is not stringent enough and if nothing is done about it, one day landlords will insist that you kill guinea fowl for them every Sunday”, he told Accra-based Starr FM.
He explained that the status quo where landlords draft the agreements to their benefit is untenable.
“In the existing situation, tenancy agreements benefit landlords a lot than the tenant. Now, the ministry has realised that and a standard agreement has been drafted that benefits both parties”, he mentioned.
Source: classfmonline.com
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