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Write a vacating notice or repair request letter to your landlord, with notice-period, deposit refund and shortfall rent worked out.
This builder writes the two letters tenants need most: a written notice to vacate that ends the tenancy on a stated date, and a repair request that puts a landlord's maintenance duty on record. The vacating notice compares the notice you are actually giving against the period in your agreement, prices any shortfall at a 30-day pro-rata daily rent, and sets out the deposit refund after agreed deductions. Where an agreement is silent, section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 treats an ordinary lease as month to month, terminable by fifteen days' written notice counted from the date the other side receives it.
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Counts the days you are actually giving, and values any shortfall at rent divided by 30 per day.
Deposit minus agreed deductions minus rent in lieu, with the answer flipped when you end up owing money.
Section 106 for notice, section 108(f) for repairs, and the Model Tenancy Act only with the caveat that it binds enacted states.
Whatever your rent agreement says — most residential agreements in India specify one or two months. If the agreement is silent, section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 treats the lease as month to month and requires fifteen days' written notice, and the period runs from the date the landlord receives the notice, not the date you wrote it.
A landlord can adjust against the deposit what you actually owe — unpaid rent, unpaid utility bills, agreed damage beyond fair wear and tear, and rent in lieu for the notice period you did not serve. They cannot keep the balance beyond that, and asking for a joint inspection on the handover day is the simplest way to agree the deductions before the keys change hands.
The Model Tenancy Act, 2021 caps it at two months' rent for premises let for residential purpose and six months' rent for non-residential purpose. That cap only binds you where your state or union territory has enacted a tenancy law based on the model, so check the law in force where the property is.
Section 108(f) of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 says that once you give notice of a defect the lessor is bound to repair, and they fail to do it within a reasonable time, you may make the repair yourself and deduct the cost with interest from the rent. Give written notice with a clear deadline first, keep photographs and invoices, and check the deduction limits in any tenancy law your state has enacted before adjusting rent.