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Walk It Through: The Renewal Letter

A higher rent at renewal, 60 days' notice, 45 days to say no, and what silence means.

Well ahead of the end of a lease, a tenant in Bear gets a letter renewing it at a higher rent.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

A renewal of a lease of a year with a higher rent. Federally subsidized rents, manufactured home lot rents and an increase in the middle of a lease are not worked through here.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.

Words this turns on

Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.