Apartment lease question..

LikeAnOcean

Is it possible to break an apartment lease, and generally, what are the penalties?

I ask because I may be buying my grandmas condo depending on what happens with her health in coming months.. I also plan on moving out from my roommate soon to get my own place either way. If I sign a twelve month lease would it cost my security deposit to break it?

I suppose its a case by case basis, but is there a general rule of thumb?

Whizbang

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Is it possible to break an apartment lease, and generally, what are the penalties?


I ask because I may be buying my grandmas condo depending on what happens with her health in coming months.. I also plan on moving out from my roommate soon to get my own place either way. If I sign a twelve month lease would it cost my security deposit to break it?

I would think you'd lose your security deposit. You'll need to read the actual lease agreement before you sign it. Some of it may be negotiable. May be ask to sign a 6month lease instead?

LikeAnOcean

Whizbang wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

May be ask to sign a 6month lease instead?

With my grandmas situation, it could be any day. I suppose I'd just have to explain to the renter the situation before I sign a lease..

mfc2006

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Whizbang wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

May be ask to sign a 6month lease instead?

With my grandmas situation, it could be any day. I suppose I'd just have to explain to the renter the situation before I sign a lease..

yup. explaining the situation is the best way to go. their response may be different depending on if they own the building (private landlord) or if they are a large rental agency. most agencies won't cut you any slack whatsoever, but the private landlords might. the break lease clause should be in your lease/contract. i believe it's required by law to have it in there. explain your situation & ask how they would like to proceed. you'll probably lose your deposit & may even have to pay a penalty to break your lease. worst case scenario----you'd have to pay rent on the apartment until they lease it out. this happened to a friend of mine---and he tried to challenge it. then they sais (large rental agency) to simply look at his lease...and there it was. he was s.o.l...

good luck!

norm

are you moving into a new place? why signing a lease? ever apartment i've ever rented i signed a rental agreement when i moved in but after a year it went month to month...are you required to sign a new lease?

81

i broke mine when i moved out here....they wanted two months rent.

LikeAnOcean

norm wrote:

are you moving into a new place? why signing a lease? ever apartment i've ever rented i signed a rental agreement when i moved in but after a year it went month to month...are you required to sign a new lease?

I'm living with a friend who owns. I'm basically month to month.

His girlfriend is driving me crazy. She never shuts the fuck up. She's only 21 and acts 13. (we're in our early 30s) She is off school for the summer, has no job, no car and just sits around all day watching movies and playing Sims. She doesn't clean or do the dishes after herself. Its really annoying and feels like I'm babysitting. Rent is cheap, and I'm saving a lot, but am losing my patience.

CAVSTARR313

I broke a lease and they came after me for every remaining month until they re-rented it, which they never did. It totally sucked.. Call the people you rent from and ask what they will do. If it is what they did to me, call a lawyer.. There are ways to get out of leases penalty free..

also, If you live in a kind of classy/quiet place, start throwing wild parties and have the cops called a bunch. My friend did this and the apartment complex let him leave early..