Stressed out on 30-day notice (lease, rental, house, period)

[JD2775]

I'll try to keep it short...

been living in my 1bdr place for 10 years....GF and I are moving in together in a 2-bdr townhouse. Tomorrow is the 1st of the month. We don't sign the lease until Tuesday (the 3rd). We are 99% sure we are signing, unless....someone beats us to it (doubtful) or something really weird creeps up in the lease that turns us away

Do i give my notice tomorrow? For a clean 30-day notice/break from this place? Or?

If I wait until the 3rd, I am not sure how that works with my current rent. I paid first/last when I moved in. My rent in 10 years has increased $200, so I was just going to pay that... if I add a cpl days though not sure what complications that brings...

Not sure what to do....I'd prefer to do it tomorrow but that seems risky to me.


Any advice?

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by JD2775

been living in my 1bdr place for 10 years...

GF and I are moving in together in a 2-bdr townhouse.
Tomorrow is the 1st of the month. We don't sign the lease until Tuesday (the 3rd).
We are 99% sure we are signing, unless...

Do i give my notice tomorrow?

Verbally. Give them a heads up now.

But until you've signed and been accepted and KNOW you're going...
don't paint yourself into a corner.

If I wait until the 3rd, I am not sure how that works with my current rent.

You still owe the rent for October.

For a clean 30-day notice/break from this place? Or?

Any LL or PM who would make an issue of a couple days after ten years deserves to be raked over the coals.

[Andieluvscats]

I would give notice now...you pay for Oct for current place plus your new place once you get it on the 3rd. You say you have a good feeling that you'll get and accept it so there you go!

[JD2775]

Thanks for the replies. This isn't spam. I will talk to my landlord today, she is coming by my place (for a mice issue, another reason I am really wanting to get out of here)

[oregonwoodsmoke]

We are past the first already but for other readers, it depends upon what state you live in.

California and Oregon are literal 30 day states, so if you give your notice on Oct 3, you are done on November 2 and owe rent until then.

Many of the east coast states and some of the middle states, a 30 day notice has to include a full rental period. So if rent is from the first to the first and you give notice on the third, you owe for all of that month and all of the next month, too. Notice given on Oct 3 does not start the countdown until the 1st of November and you owe for all of November.