nice idea ! But the real question is , how did Janna deal 18 true damage ? <| sep |> Ah , ok . Thanks for clarifying . <| sep |> Apparently people in here have never heard of sandboarding . It ' s a thing and it ' s actually pretty great . aBpPhNSjUhA Oregon even has a sandboarding park where you can rent sandboards and every thing . <| sep |> Remember To jump , jump ! <| sep |> Very old houses and some old pubs have some low doorways , trains are annoying particularly at the doors , sometimes there ' s low hanging signs particularly on older shopfronts . Then there ' s the obvious trees and cars . <| sep |> You skipped 2012 <| sep |> Well they deserved it . <| sep |> The thing is , you don ' t need to pay those renewal fees . This is just the agency shafting you . Your legal options are sign a new fixedterm tenancy agreement stay and automatically move to a monthtomonth tenancy also known as a periodic or rolling tenancy tell your landlord that you ' re going to move out at the end of your contractSauce to a rolling contract means that you don ' t need to fill out and sign any paperwork , so no agency fees . On the plus side , you now only have to give one months notice . On the downside , your landlord only has to give you a months notice . The last time we renewed , we sidestepped the letting agent and emailed our landlord saying that we ' d like to stay for at least another year and he was quite happy with that . The net result to us was a zero increase in rent and no fees . I believe that our email exchange with our landlord meant that we had a legally binding agreement to rent the place for another year , meaning that neither of us can give notice before that date expired unless it was mutual . I ' m not 100 % certain on that last statement and my wife lawyer isn ' t around to confirm it .