Location: Ontario
I'm on month-to-month at my current apartment. I just got a new job and just found a new place to move into that is in a much better location. I can move into the new place December 1. However, I need to give notice to my current landlord still. I know I'm required to give 60 days notice and that today -> December 1 is less than 60 days. This all just kind of fell into place suddenly so I didn't even really think I might be moving until like last week, otherwise I would have given notice already.
What are my options? I've been a good tenant and have a good relationship with my current landlord, so I don't want to be a dick or break any agreements. But I also don't want to pay an extra month of rent for a place I won't be using.
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Personally, I'm thinking that there's a very strong chance they'll be fine with this, and you won't have to pay for December. If you have a good relationship with them and you've been a good tenant, a ~45 day notice is IMO still extremely reasonable.
If I can find somebody to rent it does that have any standing legally or is that basically just a nice gesture that he could shoot down?
Not that I think he'll be a dick about things but I want to have as many bases covered as I can.
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Depends on locality laws and leases.
landlords are also generally required to attempt to re-rent an empty dwelling in lieu of pursuing a vacating tenant for rent; if you give notice now and he lines up another tenant to move in Dec. 10 (say), you may be in the clear anyway.
it's also not the worst thing to have an extra week or so to actually move; I dunno how they normally handle your billing but if they're willing to charge you for fractional months renting the current dwelling through dec. 13 might wind up saving you some stress.
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You are required by law to give 60 days notice in Ontario, so the earlier advice in the thread is sound.
OMG this. If it's not a financial hardship, definitely take the extra two weeks of overlap to move. Shuttling things around over a few weeks is infinitely less stressful than a crash one-day or weekend move.
I told my landlord yesterday and he said he'd talk to the other landlords (it's a family owned building) but I haven't heard anything more yet.
So I'm still waiting to see what he says, but the overlap time is definitely an appealing option.
Right now I'm just trying to clean and pack as much as I can each day and keep the apartment in showable condition.
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Technically for most people for notice, more than 60 days required, it’s at least 60 days and varies depending on your last day of the rental period. So if notice is partway through the month it’s more than 60 days.
There’s no lease so no sublet. You can do an assignment instead. Actually even with a lease you would want to do that as with a sublet unless you were considering moving back in a few months later. This is because with a sublet you still have legal responsibilities to the landlord. Granted most people aren’t familiar with the term assignment for renting so they just call it sublet.You need the landlord’s permission. They however can’t unreasonably deny you doing this.
The landlord is required to give you 24 hours notice of any showing unless you’ve moved somewhere else already. So no need to keep things 100 percent all the time if it ends up being too stressful.
Thanks everyone.
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