Free, emailed to you
The Nova Scotia Early Lease Exit Pack.
For a landlord whose tenant wants out of a fixed-term or year-to-year lease: which route it is, a written response to a request to assign or sublet, an agreement to end the tenancy early, a re-letting record, and every deadline that follows.
Where should we send it?
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What's inside
- Which route it is: every ground the Act allows for ending a lease early, and what the tenant must give you
- A written response to a request to assign or sublet: consent, consent subject to screening, or refusal with reasons
- An agreement to end the tenancy early, for every tenant on the lease to sign
- A re-letting record, the evidence that you mitigated if you ever claim lost rent
- Every deadline that follows, from the guarantor notice to Form R and Form J, with the section behind each
Why this exists
When a tenant wants out of a fixed-term or year-to-year lease, most of what happens next is paperwork the province does not supply. There is no prescribed reply to a request to assign or sublet, and the only agreement form for ending a tenancy, Form DR5, is for demolition, repairs or renovations.
And if a tenant leaves without a ground the Act recognises, Statutory Condition 6 requires you to mitigate. What you can recover is the rent lost until the unit could reasonably have been re-let, so a dated record of the re-let is worth keeping from the first day.
Prefer to read first? The full guide to a tenant leaving a lease early is free to read, no email required.
This is not a government form. General information for Halifax-area rental owners, not legal advice. Questions? Call 902-580-6170.
What it looks like
5 pages, fillable on screen or printed for signing. These are the actual pages we send.
Which route is this, and the first week 
Response to a request to assign or sublet 
Agreement to end the tenancy early 
The re-letting record