END OF LEASE TERM

If the landlord wants to terminate your lease because you are at the end of your lease term, the landlord might or might not have to give you a notice. 

First, check your lease.  If your lease says when it will end and does not say something like “this lease will automatically renew,” then your lease ends when it says it ends.  If you stay in the dwelling unit after your lease ends, then you become what state law calls a “holdover tenant.”  This just means that you are holding over past the end of your lease.  The landlord must sue to evict a hold over tenant like any other tenant.  But if you holdover in bad faith, the landlord can ask the Court to order you to pay up to three months rent plus attorney fees as a penalty.  So, if your lease is coming up, do not assume that it will automatically renew.  It is best to talk to the landlord and agree to a new term before the current lease term ends.  Also, some landlords require you to let them know one or two months ahead of time if you are going to renew or not renew.  This requirement should be written into your lease if it exists.    

If you are a month-to-month tenant, your lease continues to renew until you or your landlord terminates it for good with a thirty-day written notice that the lease will not be renewed.   If you rent a room week to week, then your lease continues to renew weekly until you or your landlord terminates it with a seven-day written notice.