Moving in

The moving day is usually the first weekday of a month, so weekends and holidays are excluded. The new tenant will receive the keys on the moving day. According to the law, the previous tenant must reserve at least half of the apartment to the new tenant’s use.

Moving days in 2026:

2nd of January, 2nd of February, 2nd of March, 1st of April, 4th of May, 1st of June, 1st of July, 3rd of August, 1st of September, 1st of October, 2nd of November and 1st of December.

The tenants receive their rent invoices for the entire year by email at the beginning of their agreement. You can also go to your online bank service and choose to receive it an as e-invoice.

The invoices will always be available also on your Tenant Pages. The due date of rent invoices is the 6th day of each month; the reference number will remain the same for the whole year.

A new tenant will receive the key from the TYS Office on the first weekday of a month, starting from 12:00.

The tenant is informed separately whether the key should be picked-up from the TYS office or from the key pick-up locker (see instructions below).

Depending on the pick up method announced, the key can also be picked up later than the moving in date from either the key pick-up locker or TYS office within its office opening hours. If you come to pick up the key from TYS office, bring your ID with you.

It is also possible that the tenant moving in and the tenant moving out will agree on key transfer between themselves. In this case, a key handover agreement must be made. We recommend that the tenant moving out confirms in advance who is moving into the apartment by contacting TYS Office.

The tenant moving in must fill in a key handover agreement on TYS´website. You can find a link to the form below.  Always fill out the form at the apartment to check that the tenant moving out has completed the final cleaning. Please note that by sending the form the tenant moving in takes possession and responsibility of the apartment and keys and accepts the cleanliness level of the apartment.

Note that the tenat moving out can only hand over the apartment keys to the tenant moving in. Possible parking and/or storage space keys must always be returned to the TYS office. 

The TYS office has introduced a key pick-up locker, through which tenants can pick up keys outside the office’s opening hours. The machine is located in the vestibule of the Tyyssija A-staircase (Inspehtorinkatu 12A, 20540 Turku). If a tenant wishes to pick-up their key outside the office hours from the key pick-up locker, they must notify the office by e-mail to office@tys.fi no later than 12 noon on the previous working day.

The key pick-up locker works like a parcel locker with a code. The tenant will be notified via SMS when the keys can be retrieved from the locker, provided they have a working phone number in their contact information on the Tenant Pages. The key pick-up locker is open 24 hours a day also during the weekends. Outside office hours, the locked front door can be accessed via the lockers´s PIN code. Once the PIN code has been entered into the external door code device, the tenant collecting keys must wait for the door to open. There is a small delay in the door opening.

Due to a move or short-term transport of goods, it is permitted to drive a car into the yard area. The car may only remain in the yard area for the duration of loading or unloading. After this, the vehicle must be moved immediately to a designated parking space. During unloading, someone must stay near the vehicle to inform parking enforcement if necessary that the vehicle is there due to a move.

Many new tenants have not been able to see the apartment before moving in, and that is why you should inspect the apartment’s condition and cleanliness immediately after opening the door for the first time. At TYS, the old and new tenant often move at the same time, and mutual understanding is needed. Potential faults in the apartment should be reported to TYS immediately, primarily by calling the office.

You can make notes about the apartment’s condition by filling in a moving-in inspection on the Tenant Pages. The moving-in inspection has to be filled in within 30 days of the starting date of the rental agreement. If you have not filled in the moving-in inspection within this period of time, it is not possible to re-open it. The apartment inspection and filling in the moving-in inspection should be taken care of to ensure your own legal protection, as it helps to ensure that, when you move out, you will not be liable for potential faults and defects that may have been in the apartment when you moved in.

Please note! The moving-in inspection does not replace a fault report. A fault report must be separately made for all faults requiring repairs.

The tenant moving in should inspect the apartments cleanliness during the office’s opening hours on the move in day. If the apartment’s level of cleanliness is inadequate, this should be reported primarily by calling the customer services +358(0) 2275 0200, so that the inspection of cleaning needs and a cleaning service can be ordered for the apartment. Cleaning and inspections will be performed on weekdays, during the office’s opening hours. Unnecessary cleaning will be invoiced from the customer. Please note that TYS cannot compensate for a cleaning that you have performed yourself.