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    Default Conversion to Month-To-Month Lease

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

    I am a tenant who has been living in my studio apartment for about two years now. I moved in on a 1 year lease and then renewed on another 1 year lease. My lease is set to expire at the end of this month (July 2012). For a few different reasons, I want to switch to a month-to-month lease because I may be moving sometime in the next few months and I do not want to get locked in on a long-term lease that would preclude my flexibility to do so.

    At the end of last month (June 2012) I emailed my landlord to inform him that I wanted to go on a month-to-month basis. He said that because of my proximity to a nearby University, he is only ok with extending my lease until December 31, 2012 so that it will be easier to find a new tenant if I decide to vacate (most tenants in the area are students so he wants to time it with the school semester schedule). I do not want to get locked in for another 5 months when I may be needing to move anytime in between now and December.

    Is his reluctance to let me go month-to-month legal? It was my understanding that in DC, a tenant has the right to go month-to-month when the lease expires. Perhaps I am misinterpreting or misunderstanding the law, but the sense I've gotten from most people is that I'm entitled to go month-to-month after my lease expires. Can somebody with definitive knowledge or experience of the law in DC help me out with this? Thank you.

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    Default Re: Conversion to Month-To-Month Lease

    Reluctance to go month-to-month is not illegal. If your lease ends you automatically go month-to-month, as D.C. requires the termination of the tenancy to be for cause even at the end of the lease term, but he can change the terms of the tenancy and raise the rent (consistent with rent control laws).

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