The landlord can’t just terminate the contract. You have rent control as a tenant. Landlords often tries to kick you out of your room unfairly. For example, because they want to sell the house, but buying doesn’t break the contract. This means that the house can be sold with the tenants in it. There are a few reasons why a landlord can terminate your contract. Besides those reasons, they also deal with a longer period of consideration. This period is three months plus one extra month every year that the tenant has lived in the house, with a maximum of six months. This means that that the period of consideration is six months if you’ve lived in your home for three years. But only if de landlord has a valid reason to terminate the rent. Intervention of the judge is necessary in all cases where the landlord wants to terminate the rent and the tenant doesn’t agree. The six reasons why a landlord can terminate the rent are: 1. You are not a good tenant. You have to mess up real bad as a tenant if you are not a good tenant. You can be one by not paying your rent, destroying the house, causing nuisance , etc. 2. Urgent own use. The landlord can terminate the rent if he urgently needs the house for himself. The landlord has to prove he needs the house more than the tenant before the judge grants this. A reason could be if the house of the landlord has burned down. 3. Refusal of a fair offer. You can decide not to agree with a renewal of your contract (because of a rebuilding, change in rental condition, etc). But take in account that a judge can decide that the changes are reasonable. The judge can dissolve the contract after consideration of interests of the tenant and the landlord. This doesn’t count if the landlord wants to change the rental price (or any other reason resulting in you paying more) and want to give you a new contract for that. Something about your house has to change before your contract can be renewed. 4. Changes in the development plan. As a student you can live above a store, or even in a house that has the destination of a store. The house isn’t used for it’s purpose in that case and that can also be a reason to terminate the rent. 5. Landlady (nine months). The landlady can decide that you don’t fit in the house during the first nine months that you live in your room. She can terminate the rent in the first nine months without a reason. She has to take the period of consideration in account, which is three months. 6. Campus contract. The campus contract is introduced to favor the flow in student rooms. Your rent can be terminated if you are not a student anymore if you live in a room that is considered a student room (pretty much all rooms of DUWO).