Need advice - tenant gave me 15 day notice

[Acie Martinez]

I have tenant for 6 years with an annual lease renewal. The lease states that owner and leasee must provide a sixty day notice.

About 60 days before the lease expires, I spoke to tenant and the tenant wanted to renew but didn’t know if her son’s girlfriend will move in or not.  

So on Jan 15, I spoke to the tenant about who to include in the lease when the tenant said that she was leaving at end of January in 15/16 days.

So my question is what are my rights?  Can I ask for 1/2 months rent? Or more?

Any guidance would be appreciated.

thanks

[Eric Mayer]

I usually just keep the security deposit which they seem to expect. Better than an eviction and you get to use the security deposit to get the unit rent ready. Any more than that and you may get some pushback. They did pay you for 6 years.