Please help! theyre still making us pay rent after a month and a half!!!

Question

its been a month and a half since me and my bf moved out and broke the lease and theyre still making us pay rent because they cant find new tenants!! but they dont really have any incentive to find new tenants if we're still paying the rent! i understand we broke the lease and we should pay the rent for some time but come on, its been a month and a half! can we just stop paying rent and cut our losses and not get the bond back???? has this happened to anyone else????

Answer 1

This has happened to millions of people.  You are at the mercy of the landlord and he has no incentive to help you.  A judge would make the landlord prove that he is making efforts to "mitigate" damages.  The landlords know how to win at that game.  Your costs are mounting daily.  If you knew this would happen would you have stayed? /

Answer 2

Legally, you owe rent until the end of the lease.  If you stop paying, the former landlord can sue you for it, get a judgment, garnish your wages and seize your assets.

Answer 3

Read your lease paperwork because there are always loop holes ~ look at the bottom of the pages to make sure the numbers are different if they aren't the lease is null n void = meaning they will have to pay you back for the amount they smuggled from  you

Also, take it to an attorney to look over because they should have leased that apartment by now

Have a friend go to the apartment requesting an apartment that should sound like yours and see if they state your number is available.

Apartment management has become extremely cut throat lately

Answer 4

Here are two words that I want you to put together, and learn now what they mean:

LEGAL CONTRACT

The contract worked TWO ways sweetie.  For the duration of the lease, your landlord agreed to provide a place and not raise the rent in exchange for you and your bf staying there for a specified period of time.

YOU broke that agreement, not the landlord, you did.

That is called a 'breech of contract"

What made you think that you had the legal right to move out whenever you wanted to?????

Yup, they can charge you for it...b/c you SIGNED a lease stating that you would pay it.

Answer 5

You signed a lease so you are still obligated to pay rent until the lease expires, the property is rented to someone else or the landlord releases you.

If you don't pay the rent, you can be sued for the balance of the lease.

Sorry for the bad news.