How to Get out of Your Apartment Lease?


My husband and I just got jobs over an hour away respectively (on opposite shifts). We share one car. Our lease ends in July but we cannot afford to only just pay a whole other months rent and the cost of moving, but we can also not afford to commute everyday which would require one or both of us to sleep in our coup¨¦. The apartment managers are not typically in their office and the organization girl is not helpful. Does anyone know of a way that we can legally break our lease minus having to pay the full months rent or incurring other fees? (My husband is in the Navy but because he is not on information and we are voluntarily moving, we aren't able to break the lease for military reasons)
Best Answer:
often leases will have tongue about just this circumstance - a job explicitly greater than x miles away will allow you to break the lease. You have to pull out your copy of the lease and read the section that allows for you to be released from the lease language. No one here can help you because we can't read your lease.
You can try to find some way in which the landlord violate something in the lease agreement, or you can just quit paying rent and be evicted. That will violate the lease agreement. He can't force you to keep paying rent if he have to evict you. Or, you can find another tenant for your landlord so that he wont have another empty component. I'm sure he would appreciate that. BW
generally to break a lease, you have to money 1 additional months rent. So if it is june, and you decide to leave contained by 10 days (say you give a 10 days notice), you would have to pay july's rent to break the lease, but be out by the time you specified on your written thought. I say if you have to pay july's rent, you might as in good health stay there anyways...or take your time moving. I know, moving expenses are outragious. good luck. and check near your apt lease...it may have information on breaking the lease. some places may not give back deposit money.it only depends on your agreement.