Breaking an apartments rental lease

[chilicat]

Has anyone ever done this? I still have a few months left on my lease, but I want to move out before then. Are there any forms I need to get, or is two months written notice good enough?

thanks.

[kingsley]

Check your contract or something?

[Shaner]

You can't break your lease, it's a legally binding contract.
Move out before the lease is over and you risk being sued as well as having your credit dinged.

Suck it up and wait a few more months before moving. You'll be happy you did.

But when it's getting close to being within 60 days of the end of your lease, give your landlord a written notice stating your moving out. Include the date, the address and unit # of the place you are moving out of, the date you will be out by and your signature. Hand deliver it.

You must give a minimum of 60 days. If you don't, you can be sued.

[royal]

I dont know about your building, but in my contract it said i had to pay one months rent and $800 for cancllation or something. Check your contract, in some you cant leave and in some u can, also you could move into your house, and put the apartment up for rent, say u pay $50 - $100 every moneth till end of contract, people will take it.

[squall458]

if possible find someone to sublet it, even at a reduced monthly rate that is offset by you. it could save you money and still keep the contract, thats assuming your allowed to sublet it and i dont see why not in this case.

[TotallyKiller]

I asked my landlord the same thing and all he said was that if he coulnd't get a new tenant then I'd have to foot the bill for the rest of the lease. Fortunately he found one and it was all good. I thought that seemed reasonable.

[itchy]

There are a few ways that you can get around this.. first one is ask to see if you can get out of your lease, sometimes you can lucky and sometimes you can't, but it never hurts to ask. Second is ask your landlord if you can have your lease assumed by someone else. He can not deny you of this request, all he can do is deny renting the unit to a certain person, but with reason. If he denies this assumption of lease request you can terminate your lease after I believe it is 20 days of the request, but i would suggest that you ask the Rental Housing Tribunal to verify the timing, as i am not 100% sure if the timing. Third is subletting your unit, but that would depend on your contract to see if you are allowed to sublet your unit.

Don't listen to Shaner, he doesn't konw what he's talking about. There are always ways to get out of a lease. you just have to know how the system works.

or if your lease is up soon just wait it out and give the proper 60days notice.

[Shaner]

Don't listen to Shaner, he doesn't konw what he's talking about. There are always ways to get out of a lease. you just have to know how the system works.

or if your lease is up soon just wait it out and give the proper 60days notice.

Learn to pay closer attention to what you read. I said he can't break the lease. Subletting or asking to get out of it doesn't constitute breaking the lease. Did I provide a solution for him to get out of it? Nope I didn't, nor do I see the point since he said he only has a few more months left anyway. Considering that a minimum of 60 days is required before he can move out, it doesn't make much sense to go through the trouble of getting out of the lease for an extra month or so.

I know exactly what I'm talking about and am very familiar with the Tenant Protection Act

[TotallyKiller]

There's also the fact that these are not federal laws. In Alberta it's called the Residential Tenanciaes Act and it may be different where you are from. Since noone asked where you are, I'd double check anything you read here.

[itchy]

You can't break your lease, it's a legally binding contract.
Move out before the lease is over and you risk being sued as well as having your credit dinged.

ok what does the second sentence that you wrote mean to you??? My interpretation is you CAN NOT move out before your lease is up.. when in essense you are wrong.. You CAN move out before your lease is up if you can get your lease assumed. Hence breaking your contract.

Either way, it's all semantics and yes I can read..

I don't want to argue with you cause I've had my run ins with you at Howardforums..

[Shaner]

ok what does the second sentence that you wrote mean to you??? My interpretation is you CAN NOT move out before your lease is up.. when in essense you are wrong.. You CAN move out before your lease is up if you can get your lease assumed. Hence breaking your contract.

Either way, it's all semantics and yes I can read..

I don't want to argue with you cause I've had my run ins with you at Howardforums..

Run ins with me at Howard Forums? I have all of 3 posts at that forum, all of which are questions regarding my cell phone. I have never even responded to any post on HOFO before. Hell, I only joined the site a week ago.

[TTony]

yes you can

[monomono]

Great post TTony!
Keep up the good work.