Unless your lease contains a specific rescission clause that grants the right to cancel the lease within a certain amount of time, neither party can back out of a contract once they have agreed and signed it.
Loss of Employment, Change of Employment, Job Transfer, Death in the immediate family, Long Term Illness, Partner or Roommate Breakup, or maybe even Lack of Maintenance by the owner, No Heat or Air Conditioning, Horrible Neighbors, or any other reason imaginable. The actual reason is secondary to the situation.
If you want to terminate early, you should try to work something out with your landlord. If you make a deal, get the agreement (referred to legally as a release) in writing to prove you are no longer responsible under the lease. You should at least give the landlord notice that you will be moving out.
Dear (landlord's name), I, (Tenant's Name), am writing to inform you that I intend to terminate my lease agreement. I am delivering this notice (number of days before your lease ends) days before my lease for (rental unit address) comes to an end. The last day of my tenancy will be on (day, month, year).
Generally speaking, leases don't come with a cooling-off period. This means that once you sign a lease, you're legally bound to its terms from the get-go.
I am the tenant at the above address and I am writing to give you insert number of days'/weeks' notice required by your tenancy agreement notice that I wish to end my tenancy. The last day of my tenancy will therefore be Insert last day of tenancy. Please contact me if you would like to discuss this.
An agreement for lease should, therefore, have a 'longstop date' in it. This is a date when both parties agree that the agreement for the lease can terminate if any conditions that the parties need to fulfil are not. They may agree that only one party has the choice to terminate at this date or that either party can.
How to Write an Early Lease Termination Letter Date and Address. Begin your letter with the rental property address and the date. Salutation. Statement of Intent. Reason for Early Termination. Reference to Lease Agreement. Security Deposit Details. Proposed Termination Date. Offer to Assist With the Transition.
Here's a list of standard fields that you should include in your lease agreement: Tenant information. Include each tenant's full name and contact information. Rental property description. Security deposit. Monthly rent amount. Utilities. Lease term. Policies. Late fees.