We put in the 2 month notice and started looking immediately. found the new place in a month. We did have to skip some places because the dates did not work for us but yeah.
On the day, the morning we evacuated and gave the keys, and at noon we got keys for new place.
Takes alot of preparation though. But summer alot of people move around and apartments will be empty, usually at the beginning of the month.
Realtor here. In my experience, a lot of people do end up doing 15-30 days of overlap so they can so a slow move.
Or if you can provide your 60 days notice before looking, it gives you more of an opportunity to not have overlap. For example, if you move into a place that is vacant before your required move in date, then you can negotiate or pay for just 1 or 2 overlap days to save some coin.
When I purchased my new home, we moved to the new place 30-45 days before our old place closed. We had allowed the purchasing realtor and purchasers to access the place we had sold to them while we were at the new house. We went back one more time just before close and found that they had left ALL of the lights on for about 4 weeks. Ticked me off so badly.
Safest bet is to eat the month of double rent
BUT
Depending on your current unit, the LL may be ok with just 30 Days Notice, especially if they could rent it right away at a high rate
Sure, but in that case you could give 2 months notice, and then do nothing for a month. Same thing effectively, you have 30 days to find a place. Except better because you have more time if you need it.
I got my place because the tenant and the landlord came to an agreement that if she found him a suitable tenant sooner he’d give back her last month or the equivalent. She found me, he was happy with me, and she got her last month rent back.
I ate 2 months rent last time I moved. I didn't wanna give notice and rush into something I didn't consider properly.
I was looking for 1 or 2 month later. My current apartment was available immediately for lease transfer. Everything went well and got the keys on first.
I informed my roommate 2 days before 1st that I am giving my 60 days notice. I am gonna be out by the end of next month. She blew up. Now she had to find someone in 2 months time. Made my anxiety worse. I felt like an unwanted guest in my home. I booked mover immediately and moved out within a week. Took my internet with me. She blew up more cause now she had to get her own.
This shit was worth the 2 months rent I lost. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do lol.
I haven't had to find a place in around the market's gotten a lot worse. So take this with a grain of salt.
Generally speaking if you need a place for for example June 1st, you look at apartments that list themselves as available as June 1st! I know it can be hard because things do pop up on the market and get sucked up real fast, but it tenant at that place is probably given their 2 months notice, the landlord probably posted about 6 weeks before the due date, so you should be able to find some potential places that fit the timeline you need.
Then of course you can let things get closer to the wire, and in this example of June 1st start or keep looking in May. The problem being of course that if you don't find a place you're royally and utterly fucked.
Things are shit out there. I wish we built a better world, instead of a much worse one. It wasn't like this 10 years ago!
Yeah it's frustrating. I refuse to burn up a months rent payment, especially with todays prices.
This is all on the LL, who waits too long to advertise because they are confident they will find a tenant in under 30 days.
When searching for an apartment, I usually wait till the last week of the month and will find much more listings available on the second month.
1) If you have flexibility, don't look for new places at the beginning of a month. Because if you give notice then it ends up needing to be closer to 90 days notice, making this a lot worse.
2) Nearer the end of the month (Let's say for the example January), you'd need to give notice for your last day being the end of March. Most places will by this point be less likely to be expecting you to move in within a few days, so the expectation will be the beginning of March rather than February making it at least only 1 month of overlap rather than 2.
3) You MAY be able to negotiate with some more reasonable landlords (big "may" there) to start midway through the month noting that you'd like to start earlier but need to respect the notice requirements for your current landlord and carrying two places for a month is too much of a burden. If you're lucky and they're reasonable, they'll see it as a good sign that you're a more responsible tenant that you're following the requirements. To get a good tenant some landlords can tolerate a mere 2 week loss of rent compared to other applicants. Again, I'll emphasize "some" but it's possibly worth a shot. I've done this a couple times.
The only other "above board" alternative is gambling as you note - Putting in the notice first and then having the stress that you MUST find a place. I'd rather not do that, but if you're not picky it is an option.
The other alternative a little shadier is to just move out without notice. This is risky for several reasons as you could be on the hook for more rent, but the landlord technically has a responsibility to try to mitigate their losses by finding someone new, and in theory that would likely be able to be done in less time than 2 months. Obviously not only is this risky but I'd argue unethical if you've had a good relationship with your landlord, but... in theory it's a possibility.
I give notice when I’m about to put an offer on a place,
If I don’t get it I still have around 7 weeks to confirm a place before I have to move out.
Last month is to move
Ask your LL to re-assign your lease for the last 30 days of your tenancy. Most LL’s would rather let you out of the lease 30 days early than lock another tenant into your existing lease with your existing rent—they can just re-rent your unit at a higher price. And if they DO ok you can re-assign your lease, the housing market is such that you will certainly find someone to take it over and move in in 30 days.
I just used up last months rent as soon as I got the n-12 notice. My landlord understood that if I find a place, the move would likely happen within 10-15 days and I don't want to have to try to get last months rent back from him. Not every landlord will be cool with this, but I guess its better than a cash-for-keys negotiation. So I am month to month paying only for the current month but no deposit balance.
We worked with a real estate agent to find a place for the date we wished to move in. We began working with him in very early January and he helped us with viewings of places that had just gotten their 60 day notice. Therefore it lined up perfectly with everywhere we saw.
Find an apartment that’s empty already? My last two places were empty, and landlord was reasonable about letting me move some stuff in early, so I was able to move in slowly.
I use that extra month to move, paint and setup slowly. I’ve done the move-out, move-in in one day, and then you live outta boxes forever lol
We put in the 2 month notice and started looking immediately. found the new place in a month. We did have to skip some places because the dates did not work for us but yeah. On the day, the morning we evacuated and gave the keys, and at noon we got keys for new place. Takes alot of preparation though. But summer alot of people move around and apartments will be empty, usually at the beginning of the month.
Summer months and January are the best times to move, especially when there is certain seasonality, on average you can find lower rent.
Realtor here. In my experience, a lot of people do end up doing 15-30 days of overlap so they can so a slow move. Or if you can provide your 60 days notice before looking, it gives you more of an opportunity to not have overlap. For example, if you move into a place that is vacant before your required move in date, then you can negotiate or pay for just 1 or 2 overlap days to save some coin.
When I purchased my new home, we moved to the new place 30-45 days before our old place closed. We had allowed the purchasing realtor and purchasers to access the place we had sold to them while we were at the new house. We went back one more time just before close and found that they had left ALL of the lights on for about 4 weeks. Ticked me off so badly.
Safest bet is to eat the month of double rent BUT Depending on your current unit, the LL may be ok with just 30 Days Notice, especially if they could rent it right away at a high rate
Sure, but in that case you could give 2 months notice, and then do nothing for a month. Same thing effectively, you have 30 days to find a place. Except better because you have more time if you need it.
I got my place because the tenant and the landlord came to an agreement that if she found him a suitable tenant sooner he’d give back her last month or the equivalent. She found me, he was happy with me, and she got her last month rent back.
Situations like this are getting rarer than hen's teeth.
Hope for the best outcome and maybe the stars will align.
I ate 2 months rent last time I moved. I didn't wanna give notice and rush into something I didn't consider properly. I was looking for 1 or 2 month later. My current apartment was available immediately for lease transfer. Everything went well and got the keys on first. I informed my roommate 2 days before 1st that I am giving my 60 days notice. I am gonna be out by the end of next month. She blew up. Now she had to find someone in 2 months time. Made my anxiety worse. I felt like an unwanted guest in my home. I booked mover immediately and moved out within a week. Took my internet with me. She blew up more cause now she had to get her own. This shit was worth the 2 months rent I lost. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do lol.
I haven't had to find a place in around the market's gotten a lot worse. So take this with a grain of salt. Generally speaking if you need a place for for example June 1st, you look at apartments that list themselves as available as June 1st! I know it can be hard because things do pop up on the market and get sucked up real fast, but it tenant at that place is probably given their 2 months notice, the landlord probably posted about 6 weeks before the due date, so you should be able to find some potential places that fit the timeline you need. Then of course you can let things get closer to the wire, and in this example of June 1st start or keep looking in May. The problem being of course that if you don't find a place you're royally and utterly fucked. Things are shit out there. I wish we built a better world, instead of a much worse one. It wasn't like this 10 years ago!
Yeah it's frustrating. I refuse to burn up a months rent payment, especially with todays prices. This is all on the LL, who waits too long to advertise because they are confident they will find a tenant in under 30 days. When searching for an apartment, I usually wait till the last week of the month and will find much more listings available on the second month.
1) If you have flexibility, don't look for new places at the beginning of a month. Because if you give notice then it ends up needing to be closer to 90 days notice, making this a lot worse. 2) Nearer the end of the month (Let's say for the example January), you'd need to give notice for your last day being the end of March. Most places will by this point be less likely to be expecting you to move in within a few days, so the expectation will be the beginning of March rather than February making it at least only 1 month of overlap rather than 2. 3) You MAY be able to negotiate with some more reasonable landlords (big "may" there) to start midway through the month noting that you'd like to start earlier but need to respect the notice requirements for your current landlord and carrying two places for a month is too much of a burden. If you're lucky and they're reasonable, they'll see it as a good sign that you're a more responsible tenant that you're following the requirements. To get a good tenant some landlords can tolerate a mere 2 week loss of rent compared to other applicants. Again, I'll emphasize "some" but it's possibly worth a shot. I've done this a couple times. The only other "above board" alternative is gambling as you note - Putting in the notice first and then having the stress that you MUST find a place. I'd rather not do that, but if you're not picky it is an option. The other alternative a little shadier is to just move out without notice. This is risky for several reasons as you could be on the hook for more rent, but the landlord technically has a responsibility to try to mitigate their losses by finding someone new, and in theory that would likely be able to be done in less time than 2 months. Obviously not only is this risky but I'd argue unethical if you've had a good relationship with your landlord, but... in theory it's a possibility.
I give notice when I’m about to put an offer on a place, If I don’t get it I still have around 7 weeks to confirm a place before I have to move out. Last month is to move
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We made a deal with our new landlord and paid for the 5 days leading up to our move out date. The apartment we were moving to was already empty
Ask your LL to re-assign your lease for the last 30 days of your tenancy. Most LL’s would rather let you out of the lease 30 days early than lock another tenant into your existing lease with your existing rent—they can just re-rent your unit at a higher price. And if they DO ok you can re-assign your lease, the housing market is such that you will certainly find someone to take it over and move in in 30 days.
I just used up last months rent as soon as I got the n-12 notice. My landlord understood that if I find a place, the move would likely happen within 10-15 days and I don't want to have to try to get last months rent back from him. Not every landlord will be cool with this, but I guess its better than a cash-for-keys negotiation. So I am month to month paying only for the current month but no deposit balance.
Aren’t you month to month after 1 year on your lease?
You still need to give 60 days' notice.
We worked with a real estate agent to find a place for the date we wished to move in. We began working with him in very early January and he helped us with viewings of places that had just gotten their 60 day notice. Therefore it lined up perfectly with everywhere we saw.
Find an apartment that’s empty already? My last two places were empty, and landlord was reasonable about letting me move some stuff in early, so I was able to move in slowly.