EDIT to add: This is in QLD, by the way.
Basically my lease is coming up for renewal - it ends mid-February.
The Real Estate sent a preliminary, somewhat informal email asking of my intentions for when my current six month lease about two weeks ago. I did not respond to that email, and then got my official lease renewal request a week later via email (on the 25th Nov). They informed me I had a due date of the 30th of November to sign the lease renewal or give notice to intend to vacate. I didn't realise they had a due date attached to the email, so I hadn't responded to that one yet either.
I do not intend to renew my lease, for a few reasons (I'll list below, not exactly important).
They've now sent me an automated text message requesting I complete the lease renewal form by COB 6th December. I can absolutely let them know now that I am not going to renew the lease, but the thing is - I dread the thought of constant inspections of prospective tenants. Coming into summer with the heat, I just hate the thought of my Saturdays and Sundays being taken up for this sort of thing.
In the official Lease Renewal email it stated that, if not renewing:
• All Tenants are to complete, sign and return the enclosed RTA FORM 13 ‘Notice of Intention to Leave’ giving at least two (2) weeks notice in writing to vacate the premises on the expiry date of the existing General Tenancy Agreement.
So, morally, should I notify them in a reasonable amount of time, or straight away, seeing as I know I am not going to renew?
Reasons I am not renewing:
- Rent increased $5 a week last time I renewed, this lease they want an additional $10 a week.
- Want to find a place with my partner, with nicer amenities.
- It's a block of units, six in total. Each unit has been advertised on RealEstate.com.au or Domain as having 1 carpark, but there are only four car parks, not six, so it's first in, first served for parking. I live in a traffic controlled area so it's a pain to park on the street - It's never really been an issue before because we've always had one or two units vacant the whole time I've lived there, so parking wasn't too scarce. But now the unit is fully tenanted.
TL;DR The lease states I need to give at least two weeks notice to vacate the property at the end of lease. The Real Estate is starting to hassle me now to notify them of my intentions. I dread the thought of constant inspections of my place coming into summer.
as a landlord, earlier the better..