Lease Termination Agreement

A hiring terminable at the pleasure of one party is terminated by notice of that party's death or incapacity to contract; in other cases it is not terminated by death.

A hiring of real property for an unspecified term renews under section 1945 unless a party gives written notice of intent to terminate at least as long before expiration as the term itself, not exceeding 30 days, and…

An owner ending a California residential periodic tenancy must give at least 60 DAYS' written notice, and 30 days where occupancy is under one year or on a qualifying sale to a natural-person buyer who will reside…

A tenant, household member or immediate family member who was the victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, elder or dependent adult abuse or a listed crime may terminate the tenancy by…

CALIFORNIA'S SECURITY DEPOSIT RULES, and they changed recently: since July 2024 the cap is generally ONE MONTH'S RENT whether or not the unit is furnished, with a narrow small-landlord exception.

The remedy of continuing the lease and recovering rent as it comes due after the lessee's breach and abandonment is available only if the lease provides for it, with a statutory form of clause, and only if the lease…

A residential lease provision by which the tenant waives rights under sections 1950.5 or 1954, the right to sue the landlord, the right to notice or hearing, procedural rights in litigation, or the landlord's duty of…

The landlord must put and keep a residential dwelling in a condition fit for occupation, with section 1941.1 listing the characteristics that make it untenantable. These cannot be drafted away;

The tenant's repair-and-deduct remedy, limited to one month's rent and available a limited number of times per year after reasonable notice. Advise a landlord on the condition of the property before advising on rent.

Connecticut procedure when the sole occupant of a dwelling unit dies: if the lease permits termination on death and the landlord has complied with it, the landlord may send the prescribed notice to the emergency contact…

Connecticut early-termination right: a tenant who is a victim of family violence (agreements entered or renewed on or after January 1, 2011) or of the listed sexual assault offenses (on or after January 1, 2014), and…

THE NOTICE TO QUIT is the first step in a Connecticut eviction and the section prescribes its grounds, FORM and delivery, including the statutory period before a summary process complaint may be served.

Connecticut rule that when a landlord terminates a residential or commercial tenancy for the tenant's breach and sues for damages, the damages include agreed but unpaid rent and the landlord is obligated to mitigate,…

How a residential eviction is actually executed, including removal and the handling of unclaimed possessions. The step landlords most often get wrong after winning.

Connecticut mitigation rule: if a tenant abandons the dwelling unit the landlord must make reasonable efforts to rent it at a fair rental, and if the landlord does not, the rental agreement is deemed terminated by the…

Connecticut text barring a landlord from bringing a possession action, demanding a rent increase or decreasing services within six months after the tenant's good-faith complaint to officials or a fair rent commission, a…

CONNECTICUT REGULATES SECURITY DEPOSITS CLOSELY. The section caps the deposit, requires it to be held in escrow at a financial institution, requires ANNUAL INTEREST at the rate it prescribes, and sets deadlines for…

Escrow requirements for advance rental payments and security deposits for residential units. A landlord who commingles the deposit is exposed; say in the lease where the deposit is held.

Illegal use of the premises voids the lease as the section provides. A distinct ground from non-payment.

Delaware early-termination statute: when either party rightfully terminates, duties cease and remaining obligations are discharged as soon as practicable, and on thirty days' written notice beginning on the first day of…

How a rental agreement's term runs and how it is terminated, including the notice periods. A defective notice defeats a Delaware eviction; follow the section rather than a generic template.

A rental agreement extends automatically where neither party gives the required notice, generally on a month-to-month basis. Tell a landlord that silence renews the tenancy.

The landlord must give the tenant the official SUMMARY of the Code, and failure to do so has consequences the section states. This is a delivery obligation at the start of the tenancy;

The landlord's core obligations under the rental agreement. The baseline a Delaware residential lease is written against.

The tenant's right to terminate at the beginning of the term in the circumstances the section describes. Relevant where a unit is not as promised.

The landlord must deliver possession at the start of the term. Read with section 5304 for the tenant's remedies if they cannot.

A condition depriving the tenant of a substantial part of the bargain: WRITTEN NOTICE PLUS 15 DAYS FOR THE LANDLORD TO REMEDY, then the tenant may terminate.

The remedies available to each side for breach of the agreement or the Code. The menu when drafting a demand or a defence.

A tenant victim, or a minor victim's parent or guardian, of an intrafamily offense under § 16-1001(8) IS RELEASED FROM THE LEASE on giving the housing provider written notice plus either a § 16-1005 order or…

Limits how much notice a housing provider may require from a tenant vacating after the lease term ends. A landlord-side lease that demands 60 days may exceed what this section allows.

A District housing provider may charge a late fee of no more than 5% of the full amount of rent due, only if the written lease states the maximum fee and only after the rent is 5 days late or any longer grace period in…

Prescribes how a notice to quit is served, including personal delivery, delivery to a person of suitable age at the premises, and posting with mailing.

The statutory frame for District security deposits: deposits are collected under the Security Deposit Act and 14 DCMR 308 et seq., a housing provider may not withhold for ordinary wear and tear, and within 45 days after…

Establishes the summary possession action in the Superior Court and the summons that starts it. It is the procedural end point of every District lease default clause.

Covered transactions require a bona fide tenant opportunity to purchase; current section .02 also addresses appraisal and certification procedures and when tenant rights vest.

Security deposits and advance rent: check permitted custody, interest, disclosures and exceptions.

The landlord's remedies when a tenant breaches or leaves early, including the liquidated damages or early termination fee option the section permits IF the lease contains the required provision in the statutory form.

Termination grounds, cure periods and notice forms differ for nonpayment, curable violations and qualifying noncurable violations. Email notice requires 83.505 compliance and statutory notice may not be waived.

The notice periods for ending a tenancy with no fixed term, by rental period. Get the period right; it is the most common Florida eviction defect.

A SERVICEMEMBER may terminate the lease on written notice with a copy of the orders where they receive permanent change of station orders, deployment orders of 90 days or more, or are released from active duty, and the…

Section 3 makes the fraudulent-entry amendment to section 83.56 effective October 1, 2026. The 2026 consolidated page already includes it; do not apply the new ground to a pre-effective-date matter.

A lease provision purporting to WAIVE OR PRECLUDE A TENANT'S RIGHTS under this part, or to limit the landlord's liability arising by law, is VOID AND UNENFORCEABLE, and a landlord who uses one knowing it is void is…

Florida text allowing the party in whose favor judgment is rendered in a civil action to enforce a rental agreement or part II of chapter 83 to recover reasonable attorney fees and costs from the nonprevailing party,…

Electronic statutory notices require the voluntary signed addendum with each valid email address and the prescribed elections, revocation and update terms. Delivery is when sent unless returned undeliverable;

Maryland text on a residential tenant's statutory early termination for the medical and death-related reasons the section states, which does not apply where the lease already contains an early-termination clause…

Maryland text: a tenant who, or whose legal occupant, is a victim of abuse may terminate future liability under a residential lease by giving the § 8-5A-03 notice and vacating within 30 days, with the rent and deposit…

Limits and conditions an award of attorney's fees in a Maryland landlord-tenant action. A one-sided fee-shifting clause in a Maryland lease should be checked against it.

Maryland text allowing an active service member to terminate a lease on a change of assignment (permanent change of station, temporary duty over 90 days, orders to move on-post, or release from active duty), with the…

Maryland definitions for the subtitle on tenants who are victims of abuse: abuse, legal occupant, offender, peace order, protective order and qualified third party.

The receipt for a security deposit must notify the tenant of the right to be present at a move-in and move-out inspection, the right to receive by first-class mail a written list of damages and the cost actually…

Requires the landlord of residential rental property to include specified provisions in a written lease, including the statement of the tenant's rights and the landlord's obligations, and provides for a penalty where…

A landlord may not take a security deposit above one month's rent per dwelling unit, regardless of the number of tenants, with a narrow exception allowing two months where the tenant qualifies for utility assistance,…

Maryland's prohibited-provisions section. A landlord may not use a lease containing a confessed-judgment clause, a waiver of any right or remedy provided by law, a late-payment penalty in excess of 5% of the unpaid rent…

Gives the tenant a rent escrow remedy for serious defects, including lack of heat, light, water or adequate sewage, structural hazards, rodent infestation and lead-paint hazards, after written notice to the landlord and…

Recovering possession after a tenancy at will has been terminated. The step after the section 12 notice.

A residential lease provision purporting to relieve the landlord from liability for negligence is VOID. Do not draft one.

Massachusetts rule that an owner may not refuse a rental agreement, and a housing subsidy provider may not deny assistance, because an applicant terminated a rental agreement under section 24 or requested a lock change…

A lease provision waiving the tenant's right to statutory notices is void. Massachusetts residential leases cannot contract around the notice regime.

Massachusetts early-termination right: a tenant or co-tenant may terminate a rental agreement or tenancy by written notice to the owner that a household member is a victim of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault or…

How a lease is terminated for non-payment of rent, including the tenant's statutory right to cure by paying within the period the section allows. The cure right is what a landlord most often overlooks.

The notice required to terminate a tenancy at will: generally the rental period or thirty days, whichever is longer. A defective notice defeats the eviction; follow the section rather than a generic template.

Interfering with a tenant's quiet enjoyment, or shutting off utilities, carries CRIMINAL penalties and civil damages of at least three months' rent plus costs and attorney's fees.

THE STRICTEST SECURITY DEPOSIT STATUTE IN THIS COLLECTION, and the one that generates Massachusetts landlord liability.

Lease provisions restricting a tenant's right to litigate or limiting landlord liability are void as the section provides. Another clause family to keep out of a Massachusetts lease.

Within 30 days after the tenancy or license ends the landlord must return the deposit plus the tenant's portion of interest or earnings, less charges permitted by the lease, by personal delivery or registered or…

A domestic-violence termination under 46:8-9.6 takes effect on the thirtieth day after the landlord receives a complying notice unless the parties agree on an earlier date, with rent paid pro rata to termination;

Before any judgment of possession under the Anti-Eviction Act, except nonpayment of rent under subsection a.

In cases under 2A:18-53(a), NO JUDGMENT FOR POSSESSION ISSUES UNLESS THE TENANCY WAS TERMINATED BY NOTICE TO QUIT: three months for at-will or year-to-year, one month for month-to-month, one term's notice for any other…

For tenants covered by section 2 of the Anti-Eviction Act, a lease provision permitting termination or nonrenewal without statutory good cause, or waiving other rights under the Act, is against public policy and…

For tenants within section 2A:42-6.3, rent due on the first has five business days of statutory grace; weekends and State or federal holidays do not count, and a delinquency or late charge cannot cover that period.

Money or other security deposited under a lease or license of real property remains the property of the person who deposited it, is held in trust, and may not be mingled with the recipient's own property or become an…

A landlord may not require more than one and one-half times one month's rent as security for residential property.

New York service-member lease termination: a lease of dwelling, professional, business or agricultural premises executed by a person who later enters military service may be terminated by written notice to the lessor at…

Lists the grounds for a summary proceeding and requires a written 14-day demand for rent before a nonpayment proceeding. A New York lease's default clause cannot substitute a shorter demand.

Requires a written rent receipt for any payment not made by personal check, an annual statement of payments on request, and written notice by certified mail when rent has not been received within five days of the due…

Text barring a landlord from serving a notice to quit or commencing a proceeding to recover possession in retaliation for a tenant's good faith complaint to the landlord or a governmental authority, good faith action to…

Before raising the rent by more than 5% or refusing to renew a residential lease, the landlord must give written notice of 30, 60 or 90 days depending on how long the tenant has occupied the unit or the length of the…

Statutory early-termination right: a residential tenant aged sixty-two or older, or with a disability, who is certified as no longer able to live independently and will move to a family member's residence, or who is…

Statutory early-termination right for domestic violence victims: a tenant or household member who is a victim of domestic violence and reasonably fears remaining may terminate by written notice to the landlord and…

Where a leased building is destroyed or so injured by the elements or any other cause as to be untenantable and unfit for occupancy, and no express agreement to the contrary has been made in writing, the tenant may, if…

The Department of State's mandatory agency disclosure for rentals under Real Property Law § 443, setting out landlord's agent, tenant's agent, broker's agent and dual agency, with the signature acknowledgment.

A security deposit remains the tenant's money, is held in trust by the landlord and may not be mingled with the landlord's own funds;

What a rental agreement may include, subject to the chapter. Read with section 5321.13 before drafting anything unusual.

THE THREE-DAY NOTICE TO LEAVE THE PREMISES is the prerequisite to an Ohio eviction and must be served at least three days before the action, by certified mail or by the other means the section allows, AND must contain…

Where a tenant has deposited rent with the court over a condition complaint, the landlord applies under this section for its release. The landlord's answer to a rent-deposit case.

SELF-HELP IS PROHIBITED. An Ohio landlord may not exclude the tenant by changing locks, may not seize the tenant's property for rent, and may not shut off utilities, with damages available to the tenant.

The Ohio landlord's mandatory obligations: comply with building, housing, health and safety codes materially affecting health and safety, keep the premises fit and habitable, maintain common areas, supply running water…

The tenant's statutory obligations. The counterpart to section 5321.04 and the basis for a landlord's breach claim.

VOID CLAUSES in an Ohio residential rental agreement, including agreements to pay the landlord's attorney's fees, to confess judgment, or to limit liability for the landlord's own negligence.

Ohio text allowing a court that finds a rental agreement or clause unconscionable when made to refuse to enforce it, enforce the remainder, or limit the clause, after giving the parties an opportunity to present…

A member of the Pennsylvania National Guard or another reserve component called to active duty (other than training) for 30 consecutive days or more, or the member's agent or attorney-in-fact, may terminate without…

Pennsylvania's unconsolidated Landlord and Tenant Act, published as a complete act.

A contract or LEASE entered into by the declarant before the unit owners elect their own executive board may be terminated without penalty on the notice the section requires.

The cooperative Act's defined terms, including proprietary lease, cooperative interest and proprietary lessee. These are the words a cooperative occupancy agreement has to use;

Except where the subpart expressly allows it, its provisions may NOT be varied by agreement and rights it confers may not be waived. Check before drafting a proprietary lease clause that departs from the statute;

A cooperative interest is a separate LEASEHOLD interest in real estate for the purposes the section states.

Which cooperatives the Uniform Cooperative Act governs. A Pennsylvania cooperative interest is held under a PROPRIETARY LEASE rather than a fee deed, so a transaction that looks like a sale is governed by this subpart…

The cooperative association's powers, including adopting rules governing use and occupancy, levying assessments, and the remedies it holds against a proprietary lessee.

Who maintains, repairs and replaces what as between the association and the proprietary lessee, subject to the declaration. The allocation to settle expressly in an occupancy agreement.

Limits on the liability of the association and proprietary lessees for a declarant's acts, and how claims against the association are handled. Relevant when a lessee is named in a suit about common areas.

Texas text allowing a tenant who is a servicemember or a dependent to vacate and avoid liability for future rent where the tenant enters military service after signing or receives orders for a permanent change of…

The tenant's remedies where a landlord fails to repair after proper notice, including termination, repair and deduct, and damages. Advise a landlord on the condition of the property before advising on rent.

Texas text stating that a landlord who receives a security deposit or rent prepayment from a tenant who fails to occupy the dwelling may not retain it if the tenant secures a satisfactory replacement tenant who occupies…

A landlord who retains a deposit in BAD FAITH is liable for THREE TIMES the wrongfully withheld portion plus $100 and attorney's fees, and failing to give the written description and itemised list on time raises a…

SELF-HELP IS TIGHTLY LIMITED. A Texas landlord generally may not interrupt utilities, remove doors or windows or the tenant's property, or lock the tenant out except on the narrow statutory conditions, and the tenant…

What counts as a security deposit in a Texas residential lease. Read with sections 92.103 and 92.109 for the deadlines and the penalty.

The landlord must refund the deposit within THIRTY DAYS after the tenant surrenders the premises, and the tenant's forwarding address is a condition of the obligation.

All publisher versions are preserved with their effective-date headings. Determine the operative version and transition conditions for the matter; do not treat future amendments as present law.

Lets a servicemember or National Guard member on full-time or technician duty terminate on written notice to the landlord: PCS orders, temporary duty over three months, discharge or release, government quarters, or a…

A notice by either party changing any term of a tenancy at will is itself a notice to vacate, given in accordance with the rental agreement or as otherwise required by law.

Virginia entry rule: the TENANT SHALL NOT UNREASONABLY WITHHOLD CONSENT to entry to inspect, repair, service or show the unit.

Lets the landlord accept rent with a written reservation without waiving a pending termination, and gives the tenant a statutory right of redemption by paying all rent, late charges, costs and fees before the return…

The statement the Department of Housing and Community Development is required to develop and publish, which § 55.1-1204(B) obliges a landlord to provide with every written rental agreement, together with the DHCD…

In multifamily buildings the landlord must install locks and peepholes on request and may charge the reasonable cost. A landlord-side lease should state the policy rather than leave it to the statute.

A tenant who is a victim of family abuse, sexual abuse or other criminal sexual assault, stalking, or trafficking may end that tenant's obligations by serving the landlord written notice EFFECTIVE 28 DAYS AFTER SERVICE,…

Virginia text: after a rental agreement is terminated the landlord may claim possession, rent and actual damages for breach, including rent that would have accrued until the term ends or a new tenancy begins, whichever…

The defined terms fix the economics of the lease: "rent" is all money other than a security deposit owed or paid to the landlord under the agreement, including prepaid rent more than one month ahead;