Termination of lease: Your rights and advice

Questioner

My landlord terminated the lease by email on February 1st in the afternoon, also sent by registered mail. The termination letter was attached to the email. However, the date of the termination letter was January 17th. However, everything was only sent on February 1. I don't open my mail every day and read the mail on February 2. The registered letter was also delivered on February 2. The landlord now assumes that the lease can be terminated as of May 1. I think that is not legally correct. After all, there is a notice period of at least 3 months, the payday, the 1st of the month is a handle. So if you cancel in January, you may be able to deliver on May 1st Cancellation, no matter how short into the new month, in this case early February, still means that delivery does not have to take place before 1 June Is this correct? Furthermore, the reason for cancellation was: urgent personal use. Now that this apparently cannot be substantiated, the reason I now received by email is apparently: not good tenancy I think it is not allowed to change the reason. If this reason is not mentioned in the January termination letter, the landlord should still make a new termination. In this case, for example: New cancellation letter with new reason sent in April means no delivery before August 1. Is this statement also correct?

Lawyer

At first glance, the termination is too late. The termination letter must, under penalty of nullity, contain the reason for termination. A reason for termination added later is not permitted, so it must be terminated again. I assume that you are subject to a non-liberalised rental regime and that you therefore enjoy rental protection.