Apartment neglected to clarify terms of lease agreement; am I exempt?

Question

I requested from the manager clarification of the terms of lease renewal and cancellation. However, she only provided me with a copy of the terms of cancellation when I requested clarification. She verbally explained the terms of renewal but did show me or direct me to the portion of the agreement dealing with renewal. Now, a month later, I'm finding that I was supposed to give 60 days notice if I am not to renew my lease. Had the manager referred me to these terms when I requested clarification earlier, I would have been aware and sent in my letter of nonrenewal. I feel that her selective information sharing mislead me (it's a 15-page contract with 6-pt font stating the renewal agreement).

Answer 1

You should have been given a copy of the signed contract when you signed your lease. Management should have gone over the lease with you and if you had any questions you should have asked. Did you even read your lease or did you just throw it in the drawer or trash? As for the notice to move, most places require 30 days notice, but they can require as much time as they see see fit.

Answer 2

relies upon on what the lease states yet many of the time the lease will be that you lose your deposit and could be responsible for the lease for the apt till that is rented once you pass for as a lot because the lease expires once the apt is rented to some different person then you are off the hook yet when it sits there for the finished time period of the lease then they can make you pay the lease for those months. i might want to attempt talking to the lease holder and be conscious if there is any opposite direction of having out of the lease i imagine by technique of regulation there is also some words on that although that is iffy i imagine even if that is an emergency health subject matters or the apt isn't as a lot as health codes or no longer maintained wisely then many times that is a legal reason behind no longer upholding the lease yet provided that the land lord neglects correcting the challenge. in case you have not moved into the apt and there is no cleansing or restoration expenses then now might want to be the time to confer with the lease holder they'd in basic terms save the deposit and enable you to out of the lease some are prepared to take heed to reason at the same time as others are confusing middle strong luck I lease a house and that i do not even do a lease or deposit that is in basic terms to me something that makes it worse to get a tenant and that i comprehend I take a loss from time to time yet i attempt to be straightforward about all of it it by no skill hurts to attempt you do not have any more something to lose.

Answer 3

Unless she told you something different than what was in writing, you are out of luck. When you signed the lease you were agreeing that you had read, understood and accepted the terms written in the lease agreement.
Unless you signed it under durress, (i.e. a gun held to your head, immediate harm if you didn't sign it) or were not capable of legally entering into an agreement (under 18 years old, mental retardation) you are stuck with what you signed.
ALWAYS read the entire lease. Even if you have to take it with you and bring it back the next day. If you can't understand it, ask a knowledgable friend or a lawyer to look at it and explain it to you.
Some leases have strange things in them. I rented a place once that required me to wax the floor when I moved out or forfeit a portion of my security deposit so the landlord could hire someone to wax the floor. It even indicated the type of wax I was supposed to use.

Answer 4

You should have received a full copy of your lease when you signed it. Typically any questions that you have at that moment should be clarified, or if it remains unclear, change the language and both tenant and landlord sign. These terms cannot be changed by either party once executed. If the 60 days notice of non-renewal was stated in your lease, that is the terms. If not, the landlord cannot implement new terms after the fact. Good luck!

Answer 5

No you aren't exempt, however, most lease agreements only require a 30 day notice of your right to cancel or terminate.

As at tennant it is your obligation to read the lease agreement in its entirety not just pick and choose what to read.

You didn't mention if this is a business lease or an apartment lease.

Granted 6pt type is too hard for normal people to read. But if you really want to have it looked over, take it to your lawyer.

Answer 6

This is why a contract should be understood when signing. You can ask the writer of the contract to go through it line by line or get someone else to read it over. Once you signed it, you agreed to all that it contains. It is a binding agreement.

Answer 7

It is not the managers responsibility to understand the contract, it is yours. If you signed it, it is valid.

There is no exemptions for signing a contract you do not understand.

In the future, take a copy to a competent authority, or an attorney, before you sign it.

Answer 8

I am not sure, I was under the understanding that with things like that you would have to initial beside the statement because it is pretty darn important.