Friendly 30 Day Notice To Landlord: Fill & Download for Free

Because you said “things are acrimonious” I think you should proceed carefully. You may be in a weak negotiating position, if you are in a state (like mine - Oregon) that provides for termination by tenant with 30 day notice. I would need to know the exact words you used in your notice to give you any advice on this (and I am not offering to give free legal advice if you fill in the details). Depending on what you said in your notice and the law of your area, you might only owe a pro-rated day’s rent and be good to go. Or it might be to your advantage to give a new 30-days notice that specifies the exact date of move-out/surrender and prorate rent to the new move-out date. If you have a friend who is a lawyer, invite them out for a tasty beverage of the lawyer’s choice at the tasty beverage dispenser of their choice and tell them you need to ask them a simple landlord tenant question. In my experience a lawyer rarely turns down a tasty beverage, be it coffee, herbal tea, slurpee, or potent potable.

I have lived alone for the past 5 years.I lived with my family until college when I shifted with a friend's family. Then I lived with various roommates for a few years until I was fed up. These roommates were a mixture of loud and messy, and didnt tend to pay rent/utilities on time.Living alone has been a breath of fresh air. I don't have to consult anyone about anything, compromise any matter, or worry if I'll have to pay double rent that month. I am free to do what I want, when I want, how I want.And I love my apartment. I've been in the same place all these years in a beautiful neighborhood featuring quiet roads and new footpaths, 4 grocery stores within a half mile (2 American, 1 Indian, 1 Chinese), and at a very good price. It's perfect.But soon this will be over. I've given the 30 day notice to my landlord.My fiance leaves for India in a couple of weeks for our wedding. In the week between his departure and my departure, I'll be shifting my things to his house in a nearby city.I'll miss my apartment, but I'm excited to be living with my husband when we get back from India.That feels so weird to say lol.

The best “loophole” I ever experienced was many years ago, when my landlord tried to raise my rent. I signed a one-year lease that had an auto-renew clause for yearly lease periods, plus a 60-day notice period for changes or notice to vacate. So, if my landlord didn’t notify me the lease was going to change by 60 days from the one-year end period of the lease, the lease renewed completely for another year.My lease origination date was October 1. On August 13 approaching the one-year anniversary of my lease, I received a letter from her saying she was going to raise my rent 15% for the upcoming lease term. I was initially panicked, since I couldn’t opt out of the renewal at that point (remember, I had to give 60 days notice for that), but then looked at the envelope. She didn’t mail it until August 8. I said nothing, and come October 1, sent her the same rent I had been paying for the last year.Of course, her lawyer called me almost instantaneously, said his client wasn’t accepting my “partial payment” (even though she had already cashed the check), and told me that if I didn’t pay the full rent immediately there would be an eviction notice on my door by the next morning. “I simply don’t know what you’re talking about. My lease renewed for 12 months on August 1. Anything you think I received after that would only apply a year from now.” “YOU WERE SENT NOTICE YOUR RENT INCREASED {AMOUNT}, YOU HAVE TO PAY THAT!” “Oh, that? It wasn’t even mailed until August 8, and I didn’t receive it until the 13th. So that applies next year, of course. I don’t think I’ll be staying here for a third year, so no worries.” He demanded that I “prove” that, so I asked for his email and sent him a photo of the envelope with the August 8 postmark. That’ll shut ’em up!It’s not like my landlord was fixing anything before that (my appliances were almost 30 years old, the entire apartment had flooded 3 times because they half-assed basic repairs, and my bedroom didn’t have functional heat), so it was a selective burning of bridges. They weren’t going to make my place completely safe and habitable, so I wasn’t going to pay them more when they couldn’t follow the clauses of the lease they wrote themselves. When I gave her notice to vacate on July 9 of the next year (the date she received it per the certified mail return receipt), she, again, immediately called and was all “why?” “Well, I’m buying a place that, monthly, will cost me exactly as much as this shithole; and also, this place is a shithole.” “Oh, you’re buying, I’m so happy for you! Tell all your friends your great apartment will be available!” “No, seriously, this place is a mold, mice, and roach infested shithole, and you can’t be bothered to spend a single dollar to make it better. I wouldn’t wish living here on my worst enemy. I only stayed for the second year because it was cheap so I could save up to buy.” “Okay, thanks, let me know if you know anyone interested!”