Apt. XXX has been reserved for somebody else. Mr. XXX ( former tenent) had
not renewed the lease for another year. The lease ends May 31st, 2004 and
you must vacate the premises by then.
Therefore, you are not permitted to remain in apartment XXX after May
31st, 2004.
Should you wish to lease another apartment in the building, please inquire
to the undersigned.
Did you sign the Assignment Form(which should be picked from Rental Board) with the former lessee and did he or she send this Assignment Form and noticc about thi transform to the landload by registered letter? If he or she have done this, and the landload did not give any reply within 15 days, you have the right to live in this appartment continuously.But if you did not do anything I said above, unfortunately you should move.
If the apartment has been transferred officially to you, then the former tenant has given all his obligations and rights to you. In other words, the former tenant has no right to renew or not-renew the lease.
Second, if you receive no letter from the landlord before, then the lease is already renewed, automatically !
If you have given all information here about your case, I am sure you can live in this apartment for the next term.
An exception:
If the former tenant told the landlord, before the assignment of the lease, that he/she will not renew the lease, it becomes another story, becuse at that time, the former tenant still had the right to terminate the lease upon the term. Therefore, what he/she informed the landlord is VALID.