Giving Notice to Vacate

If you are no longer under a fixed lease agreement or your lease is due to expire you are required to furnish the landlord/agent with a minimum 28 days notice of your intention to vacate the premises, always giving at least 28 days notice unless you are returning notice when asked to vacate by the landlord.  Your notice must be in writing and email is acceptable however it would be prudent to follow up any correspondence with a phone call to your property manager to ensure nothing gets missed.

If you wish to leave before the end of a fixed term tenancy, then you will need to discuss this with a property manager or refer to your lease agreement to find out how this can be done and what it would typically cost to do so.  Read more on breaking your lease here.

It is essential that you pay rent in advance right up to the vacate date and not expect any rent arrears to be deducted from the bond. This is a breach of your tenancy agreement and would be treated as such.

>> Download Giving Notice to Vacate form (PDF)

Services and Utilities

When vacating, you will need to:

• Notify your electricity provider to cancel your electricity account. Most providers require 6 working days notice when you are vacating in order for them to take a final meter reading.
• Notify your gas provider to take a final reading along with the local water authority.
• Make arrangements with your local Australia Post Shop/Office to redirect mail to a new address remembering that they normally take THREE working days to activate such a request.

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Preparing the Property for Vacating

You should refer to the tenancy agreement, agreement annexure, condition report and inventory that you signed at the beginning of your tenancy so as to ensure you understand all your obligations at the end of the tenancy.

We remind you that when your tenancy commenced, you agreed to leave the property in a clean and undamaged state. Should this not be done, then we will ask you to come back and fix the problem(s) within 24 hours. If this then fails, we will ask professional contractors to deal with it.

>> Download Vacating Checklist form (PDF)