Re: Tenant Refuses to sign lease - Landlord Forum thread 337747

Re: Tenant Refuses to sign lease by Andrea (GA) on July 30, 2015 @13:25

A lot of this will depend on the way you worded your 60-day notice. Did you indicate you were ending the tenancy if they did not sign the new lease by a certain date? If so, it seems you have met your legal obligation and don't owe them extra time--something that should have been made clear in the wording of the notice. It should have been something to the effect of: accept new lease with different rent terms or vacate by x date. It should have stipulated that if they did not sign the new lease by x date, then you would assume they had chosen to move and that you would be following up with move-out instructions.

As for the communication, these are legal notices you're talking about. You should be mailing them certified/return receipt. If they end up being holdover tenants (which it looks like they will) and you have to move to evict, then you will want to have proof of all communication (as in the return receipts). I can only hope that your original 60-day notice was not by email?

Not sure where you are in GA, but property taxes have indeed skyrocketed. What your tenants may not realize is so have rents, at least in my area. I used to be in the upper range for my area and size property. I am now slightly below the market average. I chose to raise my rent only slightly to avoid a vacancy. However, at the end of this rental term, I will probably end the tenancy, do some minor cosmetic work, and raise the rent more significantly.

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