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Instructions for moving out

Electronic lease termination form

You can terminate your lease easily online.

  1. Sign in to the service by using your mobile ID or online banking credentials.
  2. Choose the lease that you wish to terminate and provide all the required information on the electronic form.
  3. You will receive an email confirmation of receipt of your notice, and the termination/end of the lease will be confirmed to you within a few working days.
  4. If the lease involves more contractual parties, all contractual parties must submit separate notices of termination.

If necessary, contact the Vuokra-asunnot office. Click on the link below to access the electronic notice of termination.

Electronic notice of termination

If you do not have a mobile ID or online banking credentials, you can terminate the lease in writing by contacting us by email at toimisto@kvas.fi or submitting a paper form.

The notice period is one full calendar month. For example, if you terminate the lease on the 3rd of January, your right of occupancy will end on the last day of February.

When you have terminated the lease and are moving out

  1. Contact the property management company in advance and schedule a moving-out inspection for a date when the apartment will be empty and clean. If you cannot be present during the inspection, inform the property management company of this and agree on the handover of the keys.
    Call +358 (0)400 563 164 (Mon–Fri from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.) to arrange the moving-out inspection.
  2. If any abnormal wear is detected in the apartment, the repair fee will be taken out of the security deposit, and you will be invoiced separately for any amount exceeding the security deposit. If you want to repair the damage caused to the apartment yourself, negotiate the repairs with the property manager.
  3. Leave the apartment in a tidy condition and wash all surfaces and windows.
  4. If you have, for example, placed Venetian blinds on the windows and want to take them with you, remember that you must cover the marks left by the blinds.
  5. If the apartment has a peephole or safety lock, they must be left in place.
  6. If the apartment was already equipped with apartment-specific equipment, leave it in the apartment (such as a TV antenna cable, shower curtain, smoke detector, medicine cabinet, curtain hangers and window handle). Also leave behind any documents belonging to the apartment (such as user instructions for the household appliances).
  7. The tenant will be charged for the removal of the dishwasher and washing machine.
  8. The non-return valve at the end of the pipe connected to the washing machine must be left in place.
  9. Please also return all keys related to the apartment, including the key to the car heating pole, to the maintenance company/property manager. Do not leave the keys in the apartment or hand them over to the new tenant, unless otherwise agreed. If the keys are not returned as agreed upon, or keys have been lost, the outgoing tenant will be invoiced for the rekeying of the lock and the manufacturing of new keys.
  10. If your apartment is not freed up as agreed upon, you may be charged for the resulting costs, such as the new tenant’s hotel costs.
  11. Also make sure that any ‘junk’ related to your move is taken away. You are not allowed to leave it in the building’s waste collection point. The costs arising from taking ‘junk’ left at the waste collection point away will be deducted from your security deposit.
  12. Notify your electricity supplier of your move in order for your electricity meter to be read. If you receive housing benefits/supplements, also notify Kela about your move.
  13. Submit your notification of change of address to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency and the post office online at Notification of change of address – Post office.
  14. Your security deposit will be returned to your bank account roughly a month after the end of your lease liability. Any rental debt, cleaning costs, rekeying of locks/new keys, renovation costs and equipment missing from the apartment will be deducted from the security deposit.

Moving out before the end of the lease liability

You are liable to pay rent and utility costs until the end of the period of notice. Your liability to pay rent can only end earlier if a new tenant moves into your apartment before the end of your lease liability and you have agreed on this with the property manager in advance.

If you want to keep the keys until the end of your lease liability and this contradicts what you have agreed upon in the notice of termination, you must without exception agree upon this with the property manager and check when a new tenant will be moving into your apartment.

Death of tenant

If the main tenant of the apartment dies, the relatives of the deceased must terminate the lease. According to the Act on Residential Leases, the estate of the deceased is responsible for fulfilling the terms of the lease.

If the deceased has rental debt and/or outstanding repair costs, they must be taken into account in the estate inventory. For more information, contact the property manager on +358 (0)44 4691 325 or toimisto@kvas.fi