Has anyone requested to terminated their lease? And were you successful?

Question

I am trying to terminate my lease. It's either terminated my lease or pay rent late for 4 months. If anyone has successfully terminated their lease can you please answer these questions.

1. Did they landlord report to your credit or file a judgment against you?
2. Were you responsible for the rest of the months left on the lease?
3. It's my understanding that the landlord has to exercise a reasonable amount of time to find someone to replace me. How long is reasonable time? I have 6 months left on my lease. I want to leave by Nov.1

Also the landlord isn't responding to my letters or messages regarding this. I know she got the letter b/c I put it in my Augusts' rent envelope. The last letter I left last Thursday

this is my first time renting

I guess I could just pay late and stay the remaining months...I don't want to move. However I don't want to be evicted

Answer 1

my sister and her husband broke their lease, they are still paying the landlords for doing so. They had to pay fees as well as 3 months rent while the landlord was trying to rent the apartment. Now they live with my parents because they can not afford to pay rent on two apartments.

Answer 2

What does your lease say about early termination? It should spell out the penalties. That's what you will have to go by.

Typically, you forfeit your deposit and have to pay a couple months rent.

Correspond with your landlord via certified mail, return receipt. You may need a paper trail. Send your 30 day move out notice this way also -- make sure it's 30 days from the 1st ( or 60 days if that's what the lease requires). Take pictures of the move out condition too.

Answer 3

send your landlord a certified letter with a "received confirmation request by the postal service",address specifically to the person u r trying to notify. Yes, I terminated a year lease and was successful, the landlord breached his contract by raising the rent after I had been residing there only a month and a half, but, he refused to give me my deposit back, when I took him to small claims court the judge ruled in his favor, where I live "justice" is a joke, it means "just-us", but, other than that everything else was successfull. Good luck to u, go under landlord/tenant law and see what your state law requirements are.No, I did not get reported to collection agency because landlord knew he was in the wrong. I am not sure what the reasonable time is in your state, refer that to "landlord/tenant laws as well.

Answer 4

Usually, there are large fees associated with breaking a lease. Sometimes it's cheaper to just pay the rent.

You may want to post on Craigslist and find a qualified candidate yourself, then ask the manager to let that person take over your lease.

Send the landlord a registered letter requiring specific action: "Please call me by September 1 so we can discuss this," or "Please send me an e-mail in the next three days," etc.

Answer 5

Yes, you can terminate the lease but you have to pay at least 2 months that you don't live there.

Landlords are evil. They just lure you in when they want you to lease their apartment. But when you're in, you're trapped. Kinda you can check in but you can't check out.

I hate apartment, condo association and lawyers. They're all evil & blood suckers. All they want is your money and don't care how they get it from you.

Answer 6

I broke up with my jerk ex bf, and acted crazy when they came about me giving notice. Wasn't worth their time to figure it out. Another place begged us to leave when we got a puppy, very good dog, but "wreaked their image". Can' leaglly kick us out for getting a dog!

Also, if you find some one to take over the lease, they can't really complain.