{"id":821,"date":"2020-02-03T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matthewsenslin.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2021-07-28T13:15:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:15:32","slug":"does-an-expired-lease-automatically-continue-month-to-month-at-what-rental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewsenslin.com\/does-an-expired-lease-automatically-continue-month-to-month-at-what-rental\/","title":{"rendered":"Does an Expired Lease Automatically Continue Month-to-Month? At What Rental?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cClose your eyes \u2013 <\/em>
\nLandlord knocking<\/em>
\nOn the back door*<\/em>
\n(Jack Kerouac; Northport Haiku)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Your residential fixed-term lease expires but for whatever reason you don\u2019t sign a new one. Nor does the lease say anything about what will happen on expiry. Is there still any form of valid lease in place and if so what terms and conditions apply? What rent is payable?<\/p>\n

To avoid confusion over the answers to those questions, the Rental Housing Act (\u201dthe RHA\u201d \u2013 which, as its name suggests, applies only to residential leases) says that you are deemed \u201cto have entered into a periodic lease, on the same terms and conditions as the expired lease, except that at least one month\u2019s written notice must be given of the intention by either party to terminate the lease.\u201d<\/p>\n

Your fixed-term lease is now a \u201cmonth-to-month\u201d lease. Nothing changes except that the lease is no longer for a specific period but rather continues indefinitely unless and until a month\u2019s written notice is given by either party.<\/p>\n

Critically, the rent remains unchanged, unless\u2026<\/p>\n

The case of the verbal rental increase<\/h2>\n