The tenancy agreement did include a clause that would convert the agreement into a "periodic" tenancy at the end of the six months if we did not opt to take out a new fixed term agreement.
"If you have signed a fixed-term tenancy agreement then your landlord cannot increase the rent during that time without your consent," says Hannah Maundrell of Money.co.uk.co.uk
A few years ago, he said, he relinquished future royalties from his later songs to a third party for a $2 million payment in what he thought was a fixed-term licensing agreement but which turned out to be an outright sale; he invested that money in a recording studio project that has since failed.
Last year the government said it planned to make it easier for tenants to sublet a room by legislating against the use of clauses in private fixed-term tenancy agreements that expressly rule out subletting or otherwise sharing space on a short-term basis.
It can be difficult for one person to move out of a fixed-term joint tenancy agreement, so know what contract you have signed.
So they must be patting themselves on the back having opted for a five-year, and not a four-year, fixed-term Parliament in the coalition agreement.
Plans were also announced to exclude fixed-term contracts from collective redundancy agreements when they reach the end of their "natural life".
Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat employment relations minister, also announced plans to exclude fixed-term contracts from collective redundancy agreements when they reach the end of their "natural life".
The University and College Union (UCU) said plans to exclude fixed-term contracts from collective redundancy agreements were "another damaging blow" for post-16 education, a sector with high rates of staff on fixed term contracts that has already been hit with funding cuts and threats of job losses.
They cannot threaten to walk away: if they do, despite the reported agreement on a fixed-term parliament, they risk triggering a general election at which the Lib Dems stand to be crushed.
