Q My lease expires at the extreme ...

Q My lease expires at the extreme point of the month. I notified the landlord that I would not be renewing the lease, unless I now need to stay until I find another place. I will pay each additional month until alternate housing is raise I am taking an active part in finding housing. Can the landlord legally kick me abroad after the lease is terminated?

A. Ultimately, ye if it were not that only with a court order and the help of the sheriff.

When a written lease is throughout it's over. Expect to part ways. Exceptions are when the tenant exercises an option to renovate or when the landlord moves a new lease, accepts in writing a solicit to renew or extends a rental agreement.

Alternatively, unruffled without a written extension in Chicago, if your landlord continues to accept opening without objecting, this converts the tenancy to month-to-month with the mutual right to cancel in succession 30 days written notice. If you don't live in Chicago, your landlord could aim to your staying on from sending you a letter immediately declaring you a holdover tenant, doubling your disrupture for as long as you stay, and suing you for eviction.

As a Chicago citizen, the Chicago Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance might provide you with a short-term solution. The ordinance masks all rentals in Chicago, excluding for tenants living in landlord occupied buildings with six or fewer units.

The law requires that the landlord impel the tenant a written declaration that he does not intend to refresh the lease. The notice is required 30 days before the lease expires. Without that notice, the tenant may submit a written demand to extend the lease up to 60 days from the date when the non-renewal notice is sent

Practically speaking, the tenant does not become a holdover until the landlord percepts and then can remain for another 60 days. Your notice to the landlord about not renewing does not relieve the landlord's service to send the non-renewal notice.

Write mediator ed Sacks at Apartment Watch, Homelife, Chicago Sun- Times, 350 N Orleans, Chicago 60654 or propel an e-mail to: apartmentwatch@suntimesmail.com.

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