apartment lease termination in case of death

[EllenArlingtonPark]

Under the Texas Apartment Association Lease the answer would be no. Someone has to pay the rent until his stuff is completly moved out, so they can re-lease it. I do not know about the deposit, that would depend on the circumstances (damages,etc.).

[bigtrees]

The original poster said that the apartment complex is trying to hold the son (who was listed as the emergency contact) liable for paying the remainder of the lease.

I don't see anything in the OP's question about who pays rent until the apartment is vacated. That's real straight forward. I also don't see anything about the son living in the apartment or whose name is on the lease. I'm guessing he lives with his other parent.

It looks to me that the apartment complex wants to get paid for the apartment for the full length of the lease and will demand payment from anyone they can. That's wrong if they are demanding payment from people who aren't on the lease. Being listed as an emergency contact doesn't make you liable for someone elses debts.

[Bhaalspawn]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

It's a sad thing that our society has come to the point that a landlord would consider haranguing a son for payment of rent not yet used. He should be spending his time trying to get a tenant to replace the deceased one.

You should see what my grandma's apartment management wanted to do when she needed to break her lease in order to move into a nursing home. For an old woman suffering and dying from three kinds of cancer, they wanted her to pay off the remainder of the lease. I don't remember all of the details, but somehow, eventually it was reduced to her having to pay for just an additional month or two (as per state law perhaps).

[bentlebee]

Originally Posted by Bhaalspawn

You should see what my grandma's apartment management wanted to do when she needed to break her lease in order to move into a nursing home. For an old woman suffering and dying from three kinds of cancer, they wanted her to pay off the remainder of the lease. I don't remember all of the details, but somehow, eventually it was reduced to her having to pay for just an additional month or two (as per state law perhaps).

I understand that situations are different, but what if an apartment complex has 1 death, 2 moving to a nursing home, 2 others lost their job, 1 has a divorce.....

So why should the other party feel compassion in all cases, although they probable feel compassion but the reality is that the people working at the apartment complex also need to be paid and not every sad story is a true story...if you hear how much crap people make up to get out of contracts. I understand if a apartment complex just sticks to the contracts to keep away from discrimination lawsuits, if they let some one get out of a lease and another not......isn't this the Country of lawsuits?