Short Answer Accruing a financial deficit equivalent to two full months of rent empowers your landlord to execute an immediate termination without notice. This swift regulatory mechanism, known as a Fristlose Kündigung, moves fast — but it carries one famous escape hatch: paying the full arrears within two months of the eviction lawsuit being served voids the immediate termination by law. What Most Expats Don't Realize You encountered a brief employment gap and stopped paying your rent for two consecutive months without notifying the property manager, assuming you had a long grace period to settle the balance. The landlord did not send reminders but instead deployed an immediate summary termination notice through a legal representative, forcing you toward emergency storage. Because nobody told you about the statutory cure payment — and because the landlord had attached a precautionary ordinary termination that payment alone does not cure — you moved out, absorbed court processing fees, and lost €1,800 along with your clean credit record. What To Do * Call your landlord the exact day your income stream encounters an unexpected disruption or processing delay, and propose an installment plan in writing. * If an eviction lawsuit arrives, do not pack — paying the full arrears within two months of its service voids the immediate termination (usable once every two years), and the Sozialamt or Jobcenter can take over the debt to make that payment happen. * "Ich beantrage eine Ratenzahlung für die ausstehende Miete." (I request an installment plan for the outstanding rent.) — use this exact phrase early; once the lawsuit lands, go straight to the Mieterverein or a tenancy lawyer, because a parallel ordinary termination survives the cure payment and must be fought separately. The Truth Germany's celebrated tenant protections do not evaporate when the rent stops — they switch into a precise legal countdown that most expats have never heard of. The system gives every defaulting tenant one statutory chance to buy the apartment back with full payment, and landlords' lawyers count on foreign tenants leaving before discovering it.