I Want to End My Lease

Ending your lease requires a minimum of 60 days’ notice. This notice must be written, and a set of very specific rules must be followed for it to be valid. Using the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board’s Notice to End the Tenancy Form (also called an N9 Form) is the best way to do this.

To make things even easier, you can use the form below to enter some basic information, and we will send you a pre-filled notice of termination for you to review and sign electronically.

You will need the following:

Your first and last name as they appear on the lease
The email address you listed on the lease

The full address of your rented home, including the postal code
The month you want your lease to end (must be the last day of the month and at least 61 days after the form is e-signed and returned)

Request N9 Form

Name

First Name

Last Name

Email Address

Use the email address you listed on your lease for the fastest response.

Address of Lease to Terminate

I Want My Lease to End On

Select the month you want your lease to end.

By submitting this form I have read, understood, and agree to the following:

Submitting this request for a pre-filled N9 is not a valid notice of termination. I must still read, sign and return the N9 Form with enough time before my desired termination date or it will not be valid, and I may be required to pay for additional months until valid notice is given. I remain responsible to ensure that I give proper notice to Black Property Management by the required date. I will not receive any notification if the information submitted does not match Black Property Management’s records. This is to protect the privacy of all tenants. I remain solely responsible to ensure the information submitted is correct. No N9 Form will be sent if the name, email, and rented address I submit do not match Black Property Management’s records. I remain responsible to allow enough time for the form to be generated and to verify and request any needed corrections to the information on the form that is sent for my signature. This is not a service that landlords or property managers are required to provide. It is only being offered to me as a convenience. I will not hold my landlord, their property manager, or any of their associates, employees, partners, or service providers liable for any errors, omissions, delays, or costs that may result from using this free service.

Yes, I have read, understood, and agree to the above terms.

No, I do not agree.

Once we have verified your information, we will prefill an N9 Form with the information from your lease and send you an electronic signature request so you can review, sign, and return the form.

Common Reasons for a Notice of Termination to be Invalid

This list only includes the most common reasons termination notices we receive are invalid. It is not complete or comprehensive. There are many rules that must be followed for a notice to be valid. They are not always clear to non-lawyers, and even they sometimes find out a notice is invalid because a small detail was missed.

Wrong Termination Date/Notice Received Too Late

The termination date must fall on the last day of the rental period. For a monthly lease, this is the last day of the month. It cannot be before the end of the fixed term of the lease, and it must be a minimum of 61 days after the date it is signed and returned to us. This is because the day it is given to us is not counted as one of the 60 days, but the termination date is.

If you print and mail the form, add five days (for a total of 66 days) to allow Canada Post to deliver the notice. This means that for a lease to end on April 30, the Notice of Termination must be in the mailbox no later than February 24.

Not All Named Tenants are Listed

The names of all tenants named on the lease must be included on the termination notice. For a lease with more than one named tenant, a notice that does not include the names of all tenants is invalid, even if some of the tenants don’t want to give a termination notice.

Incorrect Notice Form of Notice

Sometimes we receive a notice that has been typed in a document editor and sent by mail or email. There is a chance that a custom-written notice might be considered valid, but that is not guaranteed.

The LTB already has a pre-made termination form that meets all their requirements and includes instructions along with boxes for all of the required information to make sure nothing is missed.

This form can be downloaded from the LTB website as a fillable PDF that can be printed, signed and mailed or electronically signed and sent by email.

Notice Not Signed

We have received many notices by mail and email that are not signed. A notice that the tenant didn’t sign is not valid.

Notice Incomplete/Missing Pages

We have received N9 notice forms where only part of the information was filled out, or only some of the pages were mailed. A notice must contain all of the required information to be valid.

If there are blanks that should have been filled, or we don’t get all the pages, the notice doesn’t contain all the required information. This will make the notice invalid.

Of course, you can always click the easy button to have a pre-filled form sent to you for electronic signature.

Send me an N9 Form