Are you required by law to give a notice when vacating an apartment after a lease is out?
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Are you required by law to give a notice when vacating an apartment after a lease is out?
Type of notice? Length?
Asked on May 14, 2012 under Real Estate Law, South Carolina
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S.L,. Member, California Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
When your lease expires, the landlord can either evict you or if the landlord accepts continuing rent payments from you, you are then a holdover tenant. As a holdover tenant, you now have a month to month tenancy on the same terms as your previous lease. With a month to month tenancy, you would have to give thirty days written notice to terminate the tenancy.
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