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Thank you (again) Jimmy.
Just to be absolutely clear (at the risk of being irritating):
– Ending the lease DURING the fixed term is clearly breaking the lease and should require justification.
– Ending a month-to-month lease is also breaking the lease, because by definition it has no end date.
– But at the end of the fixed term, it seems reasonable to ask the tenant to either start another fixed term or vacate – both parties have received exactly what they agreed to up front.
The reason I prefer annual fixed terms (renewed annually, at the tenant’s sole discretion) is simply that the property is in a seasonal area and it’s much easier to find a tenant in summer than in winter.