Early lease termination letter in Geneva: template to generate
Fill in the fields. The template produces a complete letter, written in French as a letter to a Geneva régie is, which states the move-out date, invokes article 264 para. 1 of the Swiss Code of Obligations and offers a solvent replacement tenant.
Your early termination letter
Print the letter, have every co-leaseholder sign it and send it by registered mail. Keep the receipt and the postal tracking: proving that you proposed the replacement tenant falls on you.
Generate your early lease termination letter, ready to sign and send by registered mail to your régie.
How do you use this letter?
The letter is used in three steps: generate, sign, send by registered mail to the régie or the landlord.
- Generate: fill in your details, the address of the home, the intended move-out date and the replacement candidates, then copy or download the letter.
- Sign: a handwritten signature on the printed letter; keep a signed copy.
- Send: registered mail dates the delivery of the letter, the starting point of the landlord's review of the candidates.
Enclose the candidates' complete files with the letter: identity document, certificate from the debt collection office and proof of income, the same documents as a rental application.
What happens after the letter is sent?
After it is sent, the landlord reviews the candidates: if they accept one of them or delay without serious grounds, you are released from the lease on the proposed date.
The deadlines, the number of candidates to propose and the admissible grounds for refusal are detailed in the guide to early lease termination in Geneva.