Stop mailed apartment offers after signing a lease

Ask each property you toured or contacted to stop sending leasing promotions by post. Include the date of the tour or inquiry and the name you used, so the property can find your prospect record.

By Junk Mail Magic. Updated October 2, 2026.

Connect each mailer to your search

For each mailer, write down the property name, phone number and the name printed on it. A logo or design alone does not show where your address came from.
List the properties you visited or contacted and how you did it: in person, by form or by phone. Match a mailer to a property only when the names agree. Mark the rest unknown.
Contact each matched property through its official website. Say you leased elsewhere and ask it to stop printed leasing promotions to your name and address.
For mailers you cannot match, contact the printed sender and ask whether it can stop the mail.

Mail that is not part of this request

Notices from your new landlord about the lease, fees or move-in are not prospect marketing, so leave them out of these requests. If a roommate toured with you, mail in their name is theirs to address.

Sample request

Example for your own use. Replace the bracketed details and review what you share.

I toured or contacted [property] on or around [date] using the name [name as printed]. I have since signed a lease elsewhere. Please stop sending printed leasing promotions to [address]. If your prospect records and marketing preferences are kept separately, please tell me what else I need to do.

Start with the properties you can identify

Send requests first to the properties you can match with certainty. Keep the request dates in your list, so you can quote the date if that property mails you again.

Official source

FTC: How To Stop Junk Mail

Check who publishes apartment welcome offers Reduce marketing mail at your first apartment Write a follow-up that includes the earlier request Renting and relocation All practical mail guides

Have an unwanted advertisement ready?

Photograph one piece you are authorized to handle, with the sender and full mailing label visible. Review the details before submitting. The first request is free; the sender controls the response.

Try one request free