Termination Notice By Tenant: Fill & Download for Free

Your landlord is not obligated to accept your 2-month termination notice if it is late. Even one day late never mind 10 days. Ten days is extremely late by the way. It is not surprising he is refusing to accept a notice that is so late. So I wouldn’t be writing “just because” anything. It isn’t just because. You missed a deadline in your contract. And we are required to uphold our contracts.What can you do? That depends on what your lease states. If your lease goes month-to-month, then you need to set a new termination date that complies and provide appropriate and timely notice. Likely this will mean you are responsible for one more month of rent than you planned. That is, if you planned on moving out at the end of April you will need to plan for the end of May. Even if you move out in April, you will still need to pay May as per your lease.If your lease renews and lasts longer, well that is a more serious problem. I would suggest sitting down with your landlord to see if they will let you out of the renewed lease if you pay an extra month. If not, you will need to speak with a landlord/tenant lawyer and see if you have any options.Edit: Yes the question originally read “just because.” Someone edited it. You can read the log and see the original phrasing.

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.

No. It doesn’t work that way.You must follow the procedure set forth in your lease, usually found under the caption: ”Default.”Typically, assuming the rules your tenants broke are attached to their lease, you must first send written notice of the lease violation(s) and give your tenants “X” days to cure them (i.e., follow the HOA rules).If “X” days have passed and they are still breaking the rules, usually you must then send a notice of termination, notice to quit, or similar notice giving them another 3 days or so to vacate the premises.If they have not vacated after the 3 days THEN you can evict them.