[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":92},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-\u002Fblog\u002Fsix-weeks-before-your-tenant-leaves-europe":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":79,"description":80,"extension":81,"meta":82,"navigation":83,"path":84,"seo":85,"stem":86,"tags":87,"__hash__":91},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fsix-weeks-before-your-tenant-leaves-europe.md","Six Weeks Before Your Tenant Leaves: The Move-Out Checklist Most European Landlords Start Too Late",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":70},"minimark",[9,13,16,21,24,27,31,34,37,40,44,47,50,54,57,60,64,67],[10,11,12],"p",{},"A move-out feels like an event that happens on a single day. It isn't. It's a process that starts weeks earlier, and the landlords who find move-outs stressful are almost always the ones who started on handover day.",[10,14,15],{},"Notice periods, deposit return deadlines and inspection requirements vary considerably across European countries — and sometimes between regions within them — so the specific dates are yours to confirm. The sequence, though, is remarkably consistent.",[17,18,20],"h2",{"id":19},"six-weeks-out-confirm-in-writing","Six weeks out: confirm, in writing",[10,22,23],{},"Whatever was said in passing, get the departure date confirmed in writing. Verbal move-out dates have a way of shifting by a fortnight, and every downstream date you're about to plan depends on this one.",[10,25,26],{},"This is also when you decide whether you're offering renewal. A tenant who would have stayed but assumed you weren't asking is the most expensive kind of vacancy.",[17,28,30],{"id":29},"four-weeks-out-the-pre-move-out-inspection","Four weeks out: the pre-move-out inspection",[10,32,33],{},"This is the step that changes everything, and the one most often skipped.",[10,35,36],{},"Walk the property with the tenant while they still live there. Note anything that will be an issue at handover. Tell them plainly what you'd expect to see resolved before they leave.",[10,38,39],{},"Done at four weeks, this is a conversation about what to fix. Done at handover, it's a dispute about deductions. Same facts, entirely different tone, and one of them costs you a deposit argument.",[17,41,43],{"id":42},"two-weeks-out-line-up-the-work","Two weeks out: line up the work",[10,45,46],{},"Book the cleaner. Schedule the repairs you already know about from the inspection. Arrange the listing photos and put the unit back on the market if your notice situation allows it.",[10,48,49],{},"Waiting until the property is empty to start booking trades is how a one-week turnaround becomes a one-month vacancy.",[17,51,53],{"id":52},"handover-day-compare-dont-assess","Handover day: compare, don't assess",[10,55,56],{},"At handover, your job is not to judge the condition of the property. It's to compare it against the record you made at move-in. Photographs against photographs, room by room, with the condition report in hand.",[10,58,59],{},"Then produce the deposit accounting within whatever deadline applies where you are, itemised, with each deduction tied to a documented difference.",[17,61,63],{"id":62},"how-landlordviva-helps","How LandlordViva helps",[10,65,66],{},"LandlordViva keeps lease terms and dates per unit with reminders attached, so a departure date arrives with enough warning to run this sequence rather than react to it. Tenant history and records stay tied to the tenancy, and PDF statements come from the same records — so the comparison at handover is against something you can actually produce.",[10,68,69],{},"Nothing here is difficult. It's just early. That's the entire difference between a move-out that takes an afternoon and one that takes two months and a disagreement.",{"title":71,"searchDepth":72,"depth":72,"links":73},"",2,[74,75,76,77,78],{"id":19,"depth":72,"text":20},{"id":29,"depth":72,"text":30},{"id":42,"depth":72,"text":43},{"id":52,"depth":72,"text":53},{"id":62,"depth":72,"text":63},"2026-06-24","By the time the keys come back, the decisions that determine how smooth a move-out goes have already been made — or missed.","md",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fsix-weeks-before-your-tenant-leaves-europe",{"title":5,"description":80},"blog\u002Fsix-weeks-before-your-tenant-leaves-europe",[88,89,90],"move-out","lease management","european landlords","P5dDk5y_FhgSvXqSE-z1gdaPoO8o75wBINer3iP4_hs",1789452931976]