THE NOTICE OF LEASE NON-RENEWAL

Often we become "stuck" with tenants who may have started out alright, but start to go down hill after a while. We usually feel trapped into keeping them because it is just easier to put up with their annoyances than to replace them with a better tenant.

The time (30 -60 days) prior to lease expiration is the perfect opportunity to ask them to leave in a way that they feel they are not being ousted. The tenants know your obligation to them was for the term of the lease. You should not feel obligated to extend a lease and hold on to tenants who are not living up to their responsibilities or who are making your life more difficult than it has to be.

Key elements of The Notice of Lease Non-Renewal include:

• Identification of the tenants and the premises (Include Tenants Social Security # if possible)
• Confirms agreed notice period (60 or 30 days).
• Reminds the tenants of their responsibility to cooperate with owner/manager in showing of the premises.
• Reminds tenants of the agreed vacating procedure as in lease.
• daily holdover penalty the tenant must pay if they do not leave by the deadline.
• An area is provided for an explanation for why the notice is being given (in many cases the tenants already know why they're being asked to leave)