Terminating Leases

You can only terminate a lease for unsubsidized tenants in Tenant Accounts Receivable. Completing the Terminate Lease Wizard ends the lease and moves out the unsubsidized tenant.

Note: You can use the Receive Keys Wizard to move out an unsubsidized tenant without ending their lease. See "Receiving Keys from Tenants"

From the Main Menu screen, click TENANTS. The Browse Tenant Leases screen appears with all current leases displayed in a table.

Select how you want to order the tenant lease table from the ordered by drop-down list, enter the search criteria in the search for field and click GO. The first tenant lease to match the criteria is highlighted in the table.

Highlight the tenant lease record you want to work with and double-click, or click

. The Tenant Management screen opens with the Tenant Information tab selected.

Click

and select "Terminate the Current Lease" from the menu that appears. The Terminate Lease Wizard is initiated.

Note: You may receive a message stating that you are prevented from terminating leases. Depending on your agency's policy, you may not be able to terminate leases in Tenant Accounts Receivables. See "Allow Lease Terminate When Tenant is in ORC"

Specify the date the keys were received from the tenant and the lease termination date (both default to the current date).

Select the appropriate reason for termination. This field offers "None," and your agency-defined list of termination reasons, which you maintain in the Setup area of the program. See "Termination Reasons"

By default, terminating a lease will stop charging the rent. If necessary, uncheck the stop charging rent checkbox if you want to continue charging the tenant their rent amount.

If you are stopping rent, specify the last day of rent to be charged.

Click START to continue.

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Review and confirm the information you have set up and click FINISH to terminate the unsubsidized tenant's current lease. The Tenant Information tab appears again. The lease termination date you specified in the wizard now displays in the Lease End Date field, and the specified termination reason also displays (this field is editable).

To view the account information, select the Account Summary or Account Details tab.

If chose to stop rent, the tenant's amount due now for rent is $0.00.