If you receive a Lease Termination notice in your mail, you’d better start thinking back and determine why you warranted this kind of action. A lease termination is just like a 30-day notice and a 3 (or 5) day notice: a document the landlord issues to inform a tenant that, his residential lease agreement on a specific property will soon be discontinued.

Lease Terminations, also called vacate notice, should indicate the complete details (name and addresses) of the contracting parties (you and the landlord) full term of your contract, and the date you are expected to vacate the premises. Unless you live in a government-subsidized housing project, your landlord is not obliged by law to disclose the reason/s why your lease being pre-terminated on the lease termination document.

Before you leave the premises on the specified date, you must first, settle all outstanding debts (rentals). Once this is out of the way, you can begin turning over the unit back to the landlord and discuss the issue of refunding your security deposit.

Incidentally, being issued a Lease Termination does not necessarily mean that you were at fault. Sometimes, no matter how good your tenant-landlord relationship is, it must come to an end because the property you’re renting has been sold or the unit has been unexpectedly foreclosed. If these are not the reasons why you are being asked to move out and you know that you have not done anything wrong, you may, by all means, request an audience with your landlord and ask for an explanation.

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