Rental property owners should know that Military clause is valid on service members and their immediate family (married couples and kids under 18). This does NOT apply to boyfriends, girlfriends, parents of service members, or children over 18 who are lease holders.
Military clause gives service members under lease agreements the ability to depart a property prior to the end of the lease, which copy of orders sent to Manager office. A 30 day notice is still required.
When a Military Clause is used, owners have a legal requirement to allow the service member out of the lease early, and they can only be billed for rent if they did not satisfy the required 30 day notice. For example, if a tenant submits notice of move out (with copy of orders) to depart on July 15, but notice was received on July 1st, then the tenant/service member can be billed for a total of 14 days rent. If a tenant gives notice on July 1 to move out on July 31st, then the tenant cannot be billed.
Tenants are still required to clean the property to our standards and return keys to our office as stated in the move out instructions/procedures.
Call our office for more info – 850-934-2588