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Includes placeholders for dates, parties, and the rented premises address, and covers key requirements for key return instructions. Explains lease breaking cost positions, request for invoices and evidence of loss, and arguments related to mitigating loss, rent timing after key return, and potential settlement terms.","Example of letter to landlord about intention to break the lease\nThis is an example of a letter to your landlord – who is officially called the rental provider – about your notice of intention to break the lease.\nIf you have a real estate agent acting on behalf of your landlord, you should send this letter to the agent.\nSend the letter to the landlord if they do not use a real estate agent.\nPlease insert information where indicated.\nDelete sections that do not apply to your circumstances and any instructions in italics.\nPlease delete this cover page before sending.\n\u000f\n[Date]\n[Name of agent or name of rental provider]\n[Address]\nDear [agent]/[rental provider] [insert relevant name]\nRenter: [insert name of renter and other renters where applicable]\nRented Premises: [insert address of rental]\nRe: Ending our lease before the fixed term\nWe write in relation to the above premises, and wish to formally give our notice of intention to vacate prior to the end of the fixed term.\nWe confirm we are leaving on                               [insert date].\nPlease provide us with instructions about the place where keys can be returned, not less than 7 days prior to our vacating. Alternatively, we will return the keys to you/the agent’s office/post them to you [delete as appropriate].\nLease breaking costs\nWe note that your lease agreement may require us to pay reletting and advertising fees for ending our lease early. We note that a lease agreement is required to be in the standard form according to section 26 of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997.\nIn relation to advertising, we note that sites such as Gumtree and Facebook are free, and regarding the choice of how to advertise the premises, sites that require payment such as Domain and realestate.com are choices made by you/the rental provider [delete as appropriate]. In the current market rental properties are relet very quickly so are not left vacant for long.\nIn relation to the reletting fee, this fee is intended to reimburse you/the rental provider [delete as appropriate] for expenses paid in renting the property to us, the current renters. Therefore, those expenses that we can be asked to reimburse only relate to the rental agreement that we entered into. We are not required to reimburse any costs the rental provider pays/you pay [delete as appropriate] to find a new renter, or costs related to the new renter’s agreement.\nAll fees that we can be asked to reimburse are pro rata, based on the benefit the rental provider has already had since we moved into the premises (section 211A, Residential Tenancies Act).\n[Keep the next 2 paragraphs if you have a lease that has been renewed at least once – otherwise delete.]\nYou will note in the decision of \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/vic/VCAT/2015/597.html\" \\t \"_blank\" \u0014Craig v Mitchell (Residential Tenancies) [2015] VCAT 597 (27 April 2015)\u0015 at [24] that the rental provider was not entitled to lease breaking costs for tenancies that continue beyond the original tenancy agreement.\nOn this basis, it is very clear there is not an entitlement for advertising or reletting fees in relation to a lease break of a renewed lease.\nRequest for documents\nIf the rental provider intends to seek costs we request copies of the relevant invoices. We further wish to ask whether or not these invoices were tax deducted in the previous financial year, as this goes to the issue of whether the property has actually suffered a loss.\nIf you do not provide this evidence to us in a timely manner we will contest that you have not proved evidence of loss, and will dispute any entitlement to this claim.\nFailure to mitigate loss\nAs we are leaving the premises prior to the end of the fixed term, we are not required to give you a specified time for notice. We have however, in the circumstances given you the most amount of time possible that we could give.\nWe expect the property to be listed for re-letting as soon as possible and made available for re","cbCaier9MEL0lgS7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaier9MEL0lgS7","docx",34480,4,"English","en",105,"# Lease Notice Details\n## Parties and Rental Premises\n## Notice of Intention to Vacate\n# Lease Breaking Costs and Legal Basis\n## Reletting and Advertising Fees\n## Pro Rata Reimbursement and Evidence Requests\n## Failure to Mitigate Loss\n# Financial Position After Key Return\n## Rent Not Due After Keys Returned\n## Negotiation and Settlement Offer\n# Documents and Closing","[{\"question\":\"What does the letter require the renter to state to end a lease early?\",\"answer\":\"The renter must formally give notice of intention to vacate prior to the end of the fixed term, including the planned departure date and the rental premises address.\"},{\"question\":\"How should the renter handle lease breaking costs mentioned in the lease agreement?\",\"answer\":\"The renter addresses that the lease agreement may require reletting and advertising fees and sets out how reimbursements should relate to relevant expenses and benefit already received, while requesting invoices if costs are sought.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the renter’s position on rent after the keys are returned?\",\"answer\":\"The renter states that once keys are returned they are no longer renters, so rent is not due beyond the vacation date unless required by VCAT order or an agreement is reached.\"}]","Letter about Intention to Break Lease - 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