Terminating a first time lease

[Nick Ferrari]

How many days in advance should a tenant give before attempting to terminate a lease?

I'm constructing my first lease and wanted to get your opinion on how much time should be given.

[Ryan Schroeder]

For the non-legal input... we use 60 days; we have found that when we are advertising short of 30 days we tend to get responses from a greater share of persons who "want to move in right away" in other words the quality of our contacts goes down.  Alternatively when we are advertising 45 days out we generally get good candidates who are planning ahead, run their life that same way and are good tenants