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title: "How to pause, resume, or cancel a hunt"
type: "help-article"
category: "Hunts & Tours"
article_type: "guide"
published: "2026-11-11"
url: "https://fless.io/help/hunts-tours/pause-resume-or-cancel-a-hunt"
---

# How to pause, resume, or cancel a hunt

Moves get complicated: start dates slip, budgets change, life happens. Hunts are built to survive that. This guide explains what happens when you step away from a hunt, how resuming works, and what cancellation does and does not delete.
## Your hunt does not run out of time
A hunt stays active until you find your apartment, exhaust all available buildings within your search criteria, or cancel it. There is no timer to beat and no deadline that silently closes your search. If you disappear for two weeks, the hunt is exactly where you left it when you come back.
## Stepping away without losing progress
Pausing a hunt is simply leaving it: nothing deletes itself. Buildings already matched stay matched, responses we already collected stay in your dashboard, and your credits never expire, so the value you have banked waits for you. Any replies that arrived while you were away are sitting there when you return, not bouncing into the void.
## What stepping away does not do
It does not delete anything, expire your credits, or hand your buildings to someone else. It also does not strand mid-tour conversations: anything a building already answered stays answered in your dashboard. The only thing a break changes is pace.
## Resuming where you left off
When you are ready to pick the search back up, your hunt is intact: same criteria, same buildings, same conversation history. Confirm the tours you still want and keep going. Nothing needs to be rebuilt, re-requested, or paid for twice, which is the part of moving that usually burns people out.
For most renters this looks like: start the hunt, tour half the buildings, then life moves the start date. Instead of canceling and losing the building history, you wait, and when the date firms up, the same hunt finishes the job it started.
## Running out of credits mid-break
Your existing hunts stay active even when your credit balance runs dry. You just cannot create new hunts or use premium features until you add more credits. Your data is never lost, so a quiet month never costs you the search you already built.
## Canceling a hunt
If a search is truly dead, for example your plans changed cities entirely, send us a note through the contact form and we will cancel it for you. Canceling stops the outreach. Your account, your data, and your remaining credits all stay, so your next hunt starts clean instead of from zero.
Need a hunt paused, resumed, or canceled? [Contact support](/contact).

Human page: https://fless.io/help/hunts-tours/pause-resume-or-cancel-a-hunt