What brings a letter down in litigation is almost never the tone: it is a missing mandatory statement, a wrongly stated ground or a wrong amount. Pilot takes care of all three, and leaves you the one thing software cannot do — deciding to send.
The three notices to quit a landlord can give — sale, taking back the property, legitimate and serious reason — have neither the same mandatory statements, nor the same effects, nor the same consequences if there is a mistake. A notice for sale must reproduce the first five paragraphs of a specific article and give the tenant a right of first refusal; a notice to take back the property must name the beneficiary and your relationship to them. A single template would produce three fragile notices instead of one solid one. And the cost of a void notice is not a letter to rewrite: it is a tenancy that carries on, a buyer who pulls out, a year lost.
Reminder, formal notice, repayment plan, service charge reconciliation, deposit refund, rent review notification, notices to quit — sale, taking back the property, legitimate and serious reason — but also works, boiler servicing, insurance, guarantor, managing agent, viewings, lease transfer.
Landlord, tenant, description of the property, tenancy references and dates. On financial documents, the amounts are rebuilt instalment by instalment: accumulated arrears are not a sum you calculate, they are the total of what the database has recorded.
The applicable notice period, the ground and the evidence supporting it, the articles to reproduce where the law requires it. That is the work nobody willingly redoes by hand, and the one where an omission is most expensive.
A preview shows the completed document. We generate nothing before you have been able to read it: a legal letter produced without review is a letter whose content nobody stands behind.
Dated, with the template it came from. The timeline builds up at the moment of the action, not on the day you have to rebuild it in front of a third party.
Because they are three different legal acts. Adapting a notice-to-quit-for-sale template into a notice to quit for taking back the property by changing two sentences produces an act missing the statements specific to the second.
A wrong total in a formal demand gives the tenant grounds for dispute, and loses you the benefit of the letter. Rebuilding from the payment schedule removes re-entry, and therefore the error.
With unpaid rent, what matters in the end is not the last letter but what follows: what, when, to whom. Every generation is archived, so what follows exists.
art. 15 II of Law No. 89-462 of 6 July 1989
Failing to reproduce the text, or the price, makes the notice void. The tenant has a right of first refusal: selling to a third party at a price below the one notified without having offered that new price to the tenant puts the sale itself at risk.
art. 15 I para. 3 of Law No. 89-462
A notice to quit for taking back the property that does not name the beneficiary is void, and a repossession that does not then take place may be regarded as fraudulent. The ground is not kept vague out of caution: vagueness is precisely the defect here.
art. 15 I and art. 25-8 of Law No. 89-462disputed point
From RECEIPT, not from sending. A notice to quit posted on day 30 but presented on day 3 of the following month pushes the end date back by a whole month — and the date that counts is that of the first delivery attempt notice, not that of the actual collection of the letter.
art. 24 of Law No. 89-462
No formal demand, even by registered post, replaces this commandement de payer (formal order to pay served by a bailiff) or starts this period running. Letters build the amicable phase; they do not start the procedure.
Pilot drafts them, fills them in, generates them and archives them. Delivery — registered post with acknowledgement of receipt, service by a commissaire de justice (bailiff), hand delivery against signature — remains your responsibility, and it is delivery that produces the legal effects.
The mandatory statements differ, and their absence is penalised. Three separate documents are better than one template you adapt hoping you have not forgotten anything.
art. 15 I and II of the Law of 6 July 1989
There are thirty pre-filled ones, and a safeguard recounts the files at every build: a page announcing more would make publication fail. Additional templates are presented for what they are — files to download and fill in yourself.
Included from the Essentiel tier.
Thirty, pre-filled from the tenancy data: reminders (rent, charges, insurance), formal notice, repayment plan, service charge reconciliation, deposit refund, rent review, separate notices to quit, works, breach of quiet enjoyment, guarantor, insurer, managing agent, lease transfer, end of joint liability. They are part of Pilot’s 55 pre-filled templates. An automatic check recounts the files at every publication, so this number cannot drift.
Because the mandatory statements differ and their absence makes the notice void. A notice to quit for sale must reproduce a legal text and offer a right of first refusal; a notice to quit for taking back the property must name the beneficiary and their relationship to you.
No. It generates them and archives them in the tenancy file; you post them. For a notice to quit or a formal demand, it is the notification that produces the legal effects — and we have no contract with a postal operator.
Yes, rebuilt instalment by instalment from the actual payment schedule. A total retyped by hand in a formal demand is a dispute handed to the tenant.
Additional templates are available to download — list of tenant repairs, list of recoverable charges, request for direct payment of housing benefit, among others. They are files you fill in yourself, and we present them as such. The commercial lease, the professional lease, the guarantee deed and the flat-share amendment are, for their part, generated and pre-filled.
Three strictly sequential levels, at the interval you set. Switched off by default: it is up to you to arm them. The tenant’s home insurance and the landlord insurance have their reminders too.
Pilot generates the letter and files it. Posting it remains your responsibility for now.
Calculated on actual spend, with the itemisation by category and the allocation method required by law.
Index fetched from INSEE — IRL, or ILC, ILAT and ICC for a commercial lease — with the reference quarter taken from the LEASE. Pilot refuses to index when the law forbids it.
Unfurnished, furnished, student, mobility, seasonal, flat-share, mixed-use, garage, commercial 3/6/9 and professional, pre-filled from the property’s data — one lease per unit in a building. You never start from a blank page.
Content reviewed on 2026-10-07.
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