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My apartment complex only required a 30-day notice but have changed it to a 60-day notice and I'm not sure why. Even the ones before that only required a 30-day notice. It's difficult to look for apartments 90 days out so that I'm prepared 60 days out so that I have almost no chance of getting any one I was looking at even by the time it's 30 days out. 30 days is at least reasonable; it gives everybody enough notice to prepare, but 60 days seems excessive.
Can someone explain why 60-day notices are now more common? Do they do this because 30-day notices caused them problems or are they just trying to make it more difficult to find something better?
My apartment complex only required a 30-day notice
but have changed it to a 60-day notice and I'm not sure why.
Can someone explain why 60-day notices are now more common?
They're lazy and inefficient and have learned their incompetent staff needs more time to
coordinate the clean/fix and then marketing required to find replacement tenants.
With a large(r) complex there is some validity to needing more time vs the small holding Mom&Pop
landlords who (if they think about it all) will attempt to shift turnover to SPRING time.
I bet lots of folks move sooner than the 60 days but have to pay rent through the 60th day. Because they had to grab a new rental when it was available and the new rental couldn't be held for 60 days.
Probably because the law has changed. The state of Oregon has recently decided to pass a law that a landlord has to give a 60 day notice to vacate. Maybe your state lawmakers are mistakenly thinking they are doing the tenants a favor.
Just because you had to give a 60 day notice that you won't sign a new lease does not mean you have to apartment hunt that far out. Give your 60 day notice and start looking 30 days out.
Just because you had to give a 60 day notice that you won't sign a new lease does not mean you have to apartment hunt that far out. Give your 60 day notice and start looking 30 days out.
Exactly. I don't see it as a major obstacle. Most people have at least some financial overlap when switching over to a new rental but there's no reason to immediately jump into looking at the 60 day mark.
My apartment complex only required a 30-day notice but have changed it to a 60-day notice and I'm not sure why. Even the ones before that only required a 30-day notice. It's difficult to look for apartments 90 days out so that I'm prepared 60 days out so that I have almost no chance of getting any one I was looking at even by the time it's 30 days out. 30 days is at least reasonable; it gives everybody enough notice to prepare, but 60 days seems excessive.
Can someone explain why 60-day notices are now more common? Do they do this because 30-day notices caused them problems or are they just trying to make it more difficult to find something better?
If you had a lease the it is illegal to change it without mutual agreement, unless it is State law and I doubt it.
Probably because the law has changed. The state of Oregon has recently decided to pass a law that a landlord has to give a 60 day notice to vacate. Maybe your state lawmakers are mistakenly thinking they are doing the tenants a favor.
Just because you had to give a 60 day notice that you won't sign a new lease does not mean you have to apartment hunt that far out. Give your 60 day notice and start looking 30 days out.
If a LL has to give 60 days notice then it doesn't mean the tenant has to do the same since I don't see in your post that you mention that it counts the other way around as well...
I don't know your States law but are solely commenting on your post.
Exactly. I don't see it as a major obstacle. Most people have at least some financial overlap when switching over to a new rental but there's no reason to immediately jump into looking at the 60 day mark.
If you're on a month-to-month lease 30 days notice is so much easier to deal with. You look for an apartment and once you find one you sign the lease starting 21-30 days in the future and give notice on your current place. Not really so simple if you have to give 60 days notice.
My last apartment (large complex) changed to 60 days notice. I basically ended up giving notice 60 days out and extended it a week or two. In that case the month-to-month rent was 15-20% higher so the 60 day notice thing wasn't as big of an issue as the extra $200 a month in rent I had to pay to live there without a lease.
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