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My lease had a 30 day notice clause and I found a 3 week gap that saved me $1,100
So my landlord hit me with a lease renewal last month in Austin that raised the rent $1,100 a year, and buried in section 14 it said I had to give 30 days written notice if I planned to move out. Here is the weird part: the lease itself ended on a Sunday, and Texas law counts notice in calendar days, so if I mailed my notice on the 2nd and it got postmarked two days later, I was technically short by one day and they could auto renew me at the higher rate. I caught it because my sister works at a mail room and griped about postmarks all the time. I ended up hand delivering the letter and getting a signed receipt with the date on it, plus I took a photo of the counter clerk stamping it. Saved myself the full bump and got the lease to end clean on the Sunday instead of rolling into another year. The property manager acted like I was being dramatic until I pointed at her own paragraph. Has anyone else run into a notice window getting counted one way by the landlord and another way by the state, and what did you do to lock in your side of the story?
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