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Let's say you just want to leave or you lose your job. What's the process for that? Do you have to find someone to sublet it or does the person who you pay the lease to do that? I'm relatively new to it so idk.
Depends upon the terms of your lease. Unless stipulated otherwise you are on the hook for the entire year's rent regardless. If you cannot or do not pay the LL can haul you into housing court for non-payment and to obtain a judgment for amounts owed.
IIRC RS tenants and perhaps others by law can find another person willing to take over the balance of the lease. If LL refuses under certain conditions that let's the tenant off the hook.
It really depends again upon the terms of your lease and the LL. If the apartment is market rate and can be easily rented again the owner may decide to just let you move out.
First ask your landlord if he will allow you to leave, perhaps forfeiting only your security deposit. Many landlords will do it since it is a seller's market, and very few tenants are de facto stuck with paying the full lease.
Failing that you will need a sub-lessor. You must ask your landlord to approve the tenant but he cannot deny your request without a VERY good reason.
If he does deny unreasonably you can walk away.
Do EVERYTHING in writing and with certified mail, and keep copies.
If this is your first one-year lease at the place, it might be more difficult or costly to break the lease than it would be if you have been there a few years - I find that the longer you've been at a place the more easygoing landlords are about you leaving mid-lease.
I've done it before. I drafted a letter (had it notarized) to my LL stating that I was leaving, cleaned up the apartment and took pics, wrote a check for 2 months rent, and told him to keep my 2 security deposits (bad credit at the time). Mailed the letter, the check, the photos and the keys and left.
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Let's say you just want to leave or you lose your job. What's the process for that? Do you have to find someone to sublet it or does the person who you pay the lease to do that? I'm relatively new to it so idk.
I've done it before. I drafted a letter (had it notarized) to my LL stating that I was leaving, cleaned up the apartment and took pics, wrote a check for 2 months rent, and told him to keep my 2 security deposits (bad credit at the time). Mailed the letter, the check, the photos and the keys and left.
Let me know if you need another apartment, Seventh.
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