Housing

Rent Termination Procedures

1. Notify your apartment manager in writing before the renewal/termination date on your lease.
2. Arrange the payment of utility and phone bills with your apartment mates. Exchange forwarding addresses. The last person out may receive all the bills.
3. Request the check out procedure in writing from the landlord/apartment manager.
   
4. Clean the apartment thoroughly. It must be at least as clean as the check out instructions from the landlord/apartment manager in order to eliminate charges to your security deposit.
   
5. Compare your original damage check list with the condition of the apartment now.
   
6. Ask the landlord/apartment manager to inspect the apartment with you.
   
7. You should receive an itemized bill for final charges with the balance of your security deposit within a month of your departure.

• Your copies of the original damage check list and photographs, repair requests, and mail receipts of your rental payments support you in any challenge of charges made to yoursecurity deposit.
• Enclose copies of all the above in a letter to the landlord/apartment manager with an explanation of your difference of opinion about charges made to your security deposit.