If a tenant rents month to month and rent is due July 1st but they do not pay the landlord can give a 3 day notice to quit. My question is if the tenant actually moves out within the 3 days do they still owe July's rent? If they move out and there is no damage to the apartment do they get their deposit back? Does giving the 3 day notice cancel out the tenant's obligation to give 30 or 60 days notice? How about if they are in a lease and still have 3 more months on the lease, once the 3 day notice is given do they still owe rent for the 3 months left on the lease even if they move out?
2007-07-03 06:21:41 · 4 answers · asked by ebosgramma 5 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
Most leases require at least 30-60 days notice to break your lease. This gives the landlord time to try and find a new tenant. Yes, the tenant would still owe July's rent. No the tenant would not be able to have the 30 or 60 day notice waived by moving out within th e1st 3 days of the month after they received a notice. No you would not get your deposit back since you still would owe at least July's rent, even if there is no damage. You may even end up still owing money for August's rent or other maintenance that may be needed to be done to the apartment such as clean the carpets, repaint the walls, apartment cleaning fee, etc... The tenant here needs to read his/her lease very carefully and consider the costs of leaving the lease early.
2007-07-03 06:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by dzwreck 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is probably something in the agreement about the length of notice you have to give. How in the world would you expect giving three days notice to cancel out your obligation to give 30 or 60 days? Kiss your deposit goodbye, You'd owe rent for July, and possibly for August also if you had a requirement for 60 days notice.
If you have a lease, it depends on what the lease says, and how nice the landlord wants to be to you. Unless your lease specifies that you can get out of it with a certain amount of notice, you'd owe the rent for the entire remaining term of the lease. In most areas, if the landlord rerents the apartment after you move but before your lease is up, you are relieved from paying rent after someone else starts paying rent on it.
2007-07-03 06:32:05 · answer #2 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the tenant is breaking the lease by forcing the landlord to give a 3 day...then... yes... tenant can be held liable for the remainder of the lease. If it was that easy...everyone trying to get out of a lease would be doing it.
2007-07-03 08:16:39 · answer #3 · answered by LILL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it all depends on what is spelled out in the lease. All leases are different. Just about all leases will have exactly what tennants liabilities are if they break a lease early.
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2007-07-03 06:32:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋