Renewing Tenant Lease. NJ

[Mina G.]

My tenant lease is coming up for renewal. How long before the expiration date should this be done? I'm planning on increasing the rent. Do I need to give notice as well or the lease renewal will be enough? By the way I'm in New Jersey.

Can I use the same NJ lease form for renewal or is there a different form?

Also what should I do about the deposit? Do I need to give it back to tenant and take it again? or what should I write in the lease about using deposit from the previous lease?

Thanks

[JERMAINE LUCAS]

Jermaine here, we always gave one month notice, our notice say congratulations it's your anniversary, then tell them how nice it was having them as a tenant, then get in to the the rent increase, we usually say something like, everything in this economy is going up and onfortunately so is the rent, something to that effect,