Section 2.
<br />City of Everett
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<br />3.1 NOTICE TO VACATE
<br />Before moving out, you must give our representative advance
<br />written move-out notice as provided below. Your move-out notice
<br />will not release you from liability for the full term of the Lease
<br />Contract or renewal term. You will still be liable for the entire lease
<br />term if you move out early. YOUR MOVE-OUT NOTICE MUST
<br />COMPLY WITH EACH OF THE FOLLOWING:
<br />•We must receive advance written notice of your move-out
<br />date,at least 20 days.Oral move-out notice will not be
<br />accepted and will not terminate your Lease Contract.
<br />•Your move-out notice must not terminate the Lease Contract
<br />sooner than the end of the lease term or renewal period.
<br />•If you are on a Month-to-Month term contract, your 20-day
<br />notice to vacate must be received by the 1st of the month you
<br />plan to move out. If your notice is given after the 1st of the
<br />month, you are responsible for paying rent until the end of the
<br />following month even if you move out prior to that date.
<br />YOUR NOTICE IS NOT ACCEPTABLE IF IT DOES NOT COMPLY
<br />WITH ALL OF THE ABOVE. Please use our written move-out form.
<br />You must obtain from our representative written acknowledgment
<br />that we received your move-out notice. If we terminate the Lease
<br />Contract, we must give you the same advance notice.
<br />3.2 EARLY MOVE OUT
<br />In addition to the buy out fee, you will be liable to us for a reletting
<br />charge of $1000.00 to cover expenses to re-market the
<br />apartment.You will be charge the reletting fee if you do one or all
<br />of the following:
<br />(1) Fail to give written move-out notice as required in section 3.1; or
<br />(2) Move out without paying rent in full for the entire lease term or
<br />renewal period; or
<br />(3) Move out at our demand because of your default; or
<br />(4) are judicially evicted.
<br />The reletting charge is not a cancellation fee and does not release
<br />you from your obligations under this Lease Contract.
<br />Not a Release.The reletting charge is not a lease cancellation fee
<br />or buyout fee. It is an agreed-to liquidated amount covering only
<br />part of our damages, that is, our time, effort, and expense in finding
<br />and processing a replacement. These damages are uncertain and
<br />difficult to ascertain--particularly those relating to inconvenience,
<br />paperwork, advertising, showing apartments, utilities for showing,
<br />checking prospects, office overhead, marketing costs, and locator-
<br />service fees. You agree that the reletting charge is a reasonable
<br />estimate of such damages and that the charge is due whether or
<br />not our reletting attempts succeed.If no amount is stipulated,
<br />you must pay our actual reletting costs so far as they can be
<br />determined. The reletting charge does not release you from
<br />continued liability for: future or past-due rent; charges for cleaning,
<br />repairing, repainting, or unreturned keys; or other sums due.
<br />3.3 REIMBURSEMENT
<br />You must promptly reimburse us for loss, damage, government
<br />fines, or cost of repairs or service in the apartment community
<br />due to a violation of the Lease Contract or rules, improper use, or
<br />negligence by you or your guests or occupants. Unless the damage
<br />or wastewater stoppage is due to our negligence, we're not liable
<br />for--and you must pay for--repairs, replacement costs, and damage
<br />to the following if occurring during the lease term or renewal
<br />period: (1) damage to doors, windows, or screens; (2) damage from
<br />windows or doors left open; and (3) damage from wastewater
<br />stoppages caused by improper objects in lines exclusively serving
<br />your apartment. We may require payment at any time, including
<br />advance payment of repairs for which you're liable. Delay in
<br />demanding sums you owe is not a waiver.
<br />3.4 PROPERTY LEFT IN APARTMENT
<br />Removal After, Surrender, Abandonment, or Eviction.We or law
<br />officers may remove and/or store all property remaining in the
<br />apartment or in common areas (including any vehicles you or any
<br />occupant or guest owns or uses) if you are judicially evicted or
<br />if you surrender or abandon the apartment (see definitions in
<br />paragraph 42)
<br />Storage.We may store, but other than as may be required by law
<br />have no duty to store, property removed after judicial eviction
<br />surrender, or abandonment of the apartment. We’re not liable for
<br />casualty loss, damage, or theft unless otherwise provided by law.
<br />You must pay reasonable charges for our packaging, removing, and
<br />selling any property.
<br />Redemption.If we’ve seized and stored property as authorized by
<br />the state statute, you may redeem the property by paying all storage
<br />fees if you make written request for the return of the property
<br />before we have sold or disposed of it. we may return redeemed
<br />property at the place of storage, the management office, or the
<br />apartment (at our option). We may require payment by cash, money
<br />order or certified check.Disposition or Sale.We may throw away
<br />or give to a charitable organization all items of personal property
<br />that are: (1) left in the apartment after surrender or abandonment;
<br />or (2) left outside more than 1 hour after a writ of restitution is
<br />executed, following a judicial eviction. Animals removed after
<br />surrender, abandonment, or eviction may be kenneled or turned
<br />over to local authorities or humane societies. Property described
<br />in (1) and (2) above not thrown away or given to charity may be
<br />disposed of only by sale, which must be held no sooner than 45
<br />days after written notice to you. Our notice may be sent to you first
<br />class mail to your last known address or to any other addresses
<br />you provided us in writing or any other address known to us for
<br />you. Our notice will include (1) our name and the address where
<br />we may be contacted, (2) the place where your property is stored,
<br />(3) a statement informing you that a sale or disposition of your
<br />property will take place in accordance with state law, (4) the date
<br />of the sale or disposal (which may be no sooner than 45 days from
<br />the date of notice), and (5) a statement informing you of your right
<br />(upon payment of storage charges) to have the property returned
<br />prior to its sale or disposition. Sale may be public or private, is
<br />subject to any third-party ownership or lien claims, must be to the
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