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Updated almost 8 years ago,
Requring rentable condition at time notice of moving given?
Our lease requires 60 day notice of move-out.
Our lease requires the condition of the house be restored to move-in condition, minus normal wear and tear, before move out, to get full security deposit returned.
We are updating our lease and was wondering if there is something legally defensible we could add...
We are also able to start showing the property 60 days out. Let's say there are tenant-damaged items, the home is messy, the weeds or 4' tall or whatever condition caused by the tenant that interferes with its showability in getting the property rented.
To help avoid this, can we require, as in legally defensible in court require, that the tenant needs to have the house in rentable condition at the time they give their 60-day notice, and if they don't we can make the repairs asap and charge them instead of giving them until their move-out day to repair the items themselves?
We do periodic inspections and I'm not talking about major problems, but things like those above, or their kids put stickers all over their bedroom doors and broke the glass in a small corner of a mirrored closet door which doesn't bother them but certainly would a new tenant. Had a tenant who bought a house a little before their lease was up and was motivated to get it rented to someone else so they wouldn't still have to pay rent through lease expiration, but didn't understand how their mess and damage would be a detractor to a new tenant and took their time making repairs. Since we are updating the lease I thought I could see if there was anything I could add to address this kind of issue...??