We just found out that the landlord is not renewing our lease. He asked us to clean up some boxes and papers that we had around including in the garage and apparently left us a notice about what to do in general terms with no expiration date but apparently it was blown off the door and we never got it. I was waiting for warmer weather to crush boxes and remove them from the garage but got this letter right before I could. The terms he has used to describe what needs to be done are vague enough that we have not understood what threshold would meet his approval. We also have learned that he might have plans to expand our townhouse which may be contributing to the situation.
We have to the end of May to move. The manager apparently talked him into waiting to ask us to leave to give us a chance to clean up but as I said, we did do what we thought he wanted but it apparently was not enough. We have great credit and the manager feels we are good tenants and will give us a good review. How do we handle the question "why are you moving" in a manner that doesn't make issues for us. This is a high demand (for housing by tenants) area so the reason would need to make sense.