• Everyone agrees

  It is an agreement signed by all the parties, not a notice from one side.

• The lease and the parties

  The lease being ended, when it was signed, and you and up to three other parties.

• When the lease ends

  A specific date, when the agreement is signed, today, or a blank to fill in.

• Compensation

  Whether any party will provide compensation for ending early, with blank lines to write it in.

• Witnesses

  Space for a witness's signature if you choose to sign in front of one.

• Plain closing terms

  Short terms on what is owed, a release, confidentiality, the governing state and the whole agreement, each marked for review.

• A lawyer reviews it before it is used

  Your answers are prepared into a draft and reviewed by a qualified lawyer, rather than handed back to you as a finished form.

An early termination of lease agreement records that the people bound by a lease agree to end it before its scheduled end. It names the lease, the parties, the date the lease ends and whether any party will provide compensation for ending early.

This builder asks whether everyone consents, describes the lease and the date it was signed if you want to, names you and up to three other parties, asks when the lease will end (a date, when the agreement is signed, today or unsure) and who will provide compensation, and whether you will sign in front of witnesses. The compensation is left as blank lines for you to write in, and nothing is suggested for you.

This document is for an agreed ending. If you cannot agree, a different document, such as a lease termination notice or an eviction notice, may fit better. What a landlord or tenant may do without agreement depends on the lease and on your state, and a lawyer can tell you.

Not sure? Talk to an attorney about your situation first.

These are separate documents, for different jobs.

• Lease termination noticesGive notice to end a lease.View document
• Lease Assignment AgreementTransfer a tenant's lease rights and duties to someone else.View document
• Sublease agreementsRent out all or part of a place you're renting.View document
• Security-deposit agreementsSet how a security deposit is held and returned.View document

• A tenant has a new job elsewhere and the landlord agrees to end the lease
• A landlord is selling and the tenant agrees to leave early
• A business closes and the parties settle on an end date and a payment

• Lease termination noticesGive notice to end a lease.View document
• Late-rent noticesNotify a tenant that rent is overdue.View document
• Eviction noticesThe formal notice that starts the eviction process.View document
• Notice-to-enter documentsGive a tenant notice before entering the property.View document