Ending a lease

Notice

Notice periods and the compensation owed for leaving early are jurisdiction rules, not opinions, and Dardaris applies the pack on the lease. Record the notice on the lease and the end date, the final invoice and the exit inventory all move with it.

A notice you send is a Review action by default. It is a formal document with a legal effect, so Dardaris prepares it, shows you the notice period it applied and the date it lands on, and waits.

That default is yours, not ours. Raise it and it waits for a second pair of eyes; lower it and it goes out on its own. If you set it to run unattended it will run unattended, on your instruction, and the audit record will say exactly that. Decide it deliberately: see autonomy tiers and spend caps.

The exit inventory

In most tenancies this is not yours to write. An independent expert does it, either the one the lease names or one you and the tenant appoint together, and their report is the document that counts if the deposit is ever argued about.

So Dardaris schedules it against the end date, chases the appointment, and then waits for the report. When it arrives it encodes it: the expert's findings become items against the entry inventory, room by room, so nobody retypes a document that has already been written once.

What comes out is a list of differences with the photographs attached and a proposed deduction with the wear-and-tear depreciation already applied, so a seven year old paint job is not charged as new. It is a proposal, not a verdict. Wear and tear against damage is a judgement, and it is yours.

Where no expert is involved and you walk the property yourself, record it the same way. The comparison works from whatever is on file, whoever put it there.

The deposit

Once you have decided what is deductible, Dardaris prepares the release: the amount back to the tenant, the amount retained, and the reasoning for each line.

A deduction is a Review action by default, and so is releasing a blocked account. Like every other tier, those are yours to change, and worth thinking about twice here: this is the money an argument is most likely to be about. See autonomy tiers and spend caps.

If the tenant left owing rent, the arrears case is settled against the deposit rather than closed quietly. See arrears.

What happens to the unit

The unit goes vacant on the end date, and from that morning the front desk starts telling you what it is costing you to stand empty. Relet it with a new lease and the cycle starts again: your first lease.