Five months ago, you started renting an apartment on a six-month agreement. You now wish to stay in the apartment for longer than the six months you originally agreed with the owner. Write a letter to the owner of your apartment. In your letter: •Say how long you want to rent the apartment for, •Explain why your plans have changed, •Tell the owner about a problem in the apartment.

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Dear Smith, I hope you are doing well. I am Shweta Bhat,
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of your tenants at the Waterloo
apartment
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. I am writing
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letter to inform you that I would like to extend my stay in the
apartment
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for longer than the six-month agreement.
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of six months, I want to stay for
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year in the
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. As you know I was looking for a job, and I received an offer letter from a big IT company on 25th Dec. I will be working there on a year contract as a Salesforce Developer. The company is 10 minutes walk from the
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so it will be easy for me to commute.
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, all the stores are
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near it
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it is easy for me to buy different things.
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, there is
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problem in the
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the microwave in the kitchen is not working. I would appreciate it if you could either fix the microwave or replace it with a new
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. I am looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you, Yours faithfully, Shweta Bhat.

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task achievement
Consider providing a more detailed explanation about the problem with the microwave for clarity.
coherence cohesion
Ensure all paragraphs are well connected and related ideas are grouped together.
coherence cohesion
You have a clear and appropriate greeting and closing for the letter.
task achievement
The writing tone is polite and suitable for a letter to a landlord.

The Closing

The style of the letter determine how you have to close it.

Check out the suggested closing sentences for each type of letter in the General IELTS Test. The closing sentence should be the last sentence of your letter.

Formal style (To someone you have not met, whose name you don’t know)

  • Yours faithfully,

Semi-formal (To someone you may or may not have met, whose last name you know)

  • Yours sincerely,

Informal (To someone you know well, whose first name you know and use)

  • Best regards,
  • Warm wishes,

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