No Renewal letter given by my complex...Help (apartment complexes, lease)

[Brimble1]

I was not given 65 days notice that my lease is up and now they want to raise my rent or get out. According to a friend, the SA Apartment Association states that if you do not receive 65 days notice, they can't make any changes to your lease. They are telling me to sign or leave. What rights do I have. If I don't sign they will place me on month to month for $100 plus market rent. Help!!!

[Hedgehog_Mom]

When did that change? It's been 5 years since I last rented an apartment, but the way it worked then was that you had to give 30 days notice (or longer if specified in your lease) if you were moving out when the lease ended. If not, it was assumed you would be staying. They usually gave about a month's notice of how much the rent was going up for the new lease, and it did go up every year.

You should have a lease with an end date on it, and it will list how much notice you're required to give if you're moving out and how much notice they're required to give.

The SA Apartment Association is there to help the apartment complexes, not to help you, so don't assume that anything they've done or written into the standard lease will be helpful to you. At least that was the experience I had with them.

[kidd_91]

If I remember this correctly, they have to inform you of the new rate 5 days prior to when you need to give notice that you won't be renewing.

So if your lease agreement stated you had to give 60 days notice of leaving, then they should have informed you 65 days prior to the lease ending of the new rates. It basically gives you 5 days to decide if you want to stay and agree to the new terms or give notice your leaving at the end of your lease.

You probably can argue that they allow you to stay for an additional 60 days(or however long you are required to give notice) at the current rate, but after that you need to be prepared to move out.

Or you just sign the contract and start paying the new rate.

[WVREDLEG]

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov.../tenants.shtml