Walk It Through: The Lease That Ran Out
A one year lease ends, the tenant stays a week, and the lease reconducts itself.
A one year lease ends on the last day of May. Nobody says anything, and the tenant stays.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A residential lease with a fixed term longer than a week. An agricultural lease, a weekly rental, and a lease with its own renewal clause 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.
- Notice to vacateThe written notice a lessor delivers before filing for eviction, allowing not less than 5 days to leave.
- ReconductionThe renewal of a fixed term lease when the tenant stays on past the term, for a week in most leases, with no notice or objection from either side.
- Rule to show causeThe summary court proceeding in which the tenant is ordered to show why possession should not be delivered to the lessor, heard no earlier than the third day after service.