DS recently moved to a large city for work. He paid a month's rent, informally, to one of the current tenants on the basis that he'd sign a four month contract very soon after that with the landlord (a very large one - hundreds of tenancies on one estate).
The tenancy would be reassigned to DS as the previous tenant left before the end of his tenancy. The informal arrangement was fine with the landlord pending getting the reassignment docs ready.
DS is now being chased. Problem though. He's finding it very difficult to live in the flat. The walls are paperthin and he hears the TV, alarms, talking late into the night and very early in the morning. He feels on edge and is sleeping badly. He may have to wfh soon. He tried talking to the tenants but without much success.
He wants to leave asap. Very soon or after a month - paying another month's rent of course if this could be done informally again.
He hasn't signed anything. The landlord probably knows that he's there and as good as told him that a month's informal arrangement would be OK - then sign the documents reassigning the tenancy for four months.
DS doesn't want to let anyone down. But he's finding living in the flat intolerable. Any advice welcome.