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Thank you for all the kind and helpful replies. We will ride it out. We are not the kind of people to not take care of the property. We have already made many improvements to this place,including the piles of old wood they LL left from renovations, (and claimed the would be "right over" with a truck to pick up because they forgot about it) cleaned up a huge "dumping" area by the back yard shed and grew a garden, painted interior rooms with neutral colors. We have no intentions of being blacklisted.
As others have said, first look through your lease and make sure you understand everything. Second, call the land lord and negotiate with them, but try to make it as fair and easy for them as possible so that they would want to let you leave. best way to do this would be to ask them if it is ok if you post an ad for the place and try to find a new tenant that they will approve of. Offer to do the showings yourself.
Most private land lords would be perfectly okay with this. I would be-- I don't have to do any work and my compensation doesn't change so it doesn't really matter who's living in it as long as their background and credit check outs and I approve of the new tenant. Most private land lords would rather have someone who WANTS to be there rather than force a tenant who DOESN'T want to be there to keep paying.
If this is a corporate landlord you may be in for a bit more of a challenge, as they are less willing to negotiate with tenants, especially at the lower staff levels...
I only have one month left and am purchasing a home. Gave them my notice and now they said they never got my purchase agreement. So now have to to pay again another month which I can't afford. What do I do
I only have one month left and am purchasing a home.
Gave them my notice and now they said they never got my purchase agreement.
You gave who notice, your LL? What does your purchase agreement (for the house?) have to do with your LL?
So now have to to pay again another month which I can't afford. What do I do
If you gave your LL the required amount of notice, why do you now have to pay another month's rent?
This is way too confusing with too much left out - sorry!
Like another poster mentioned it depends on private vs. corporate landlord. One of the best tenants I've ever had was a young man who called me in the middle of the third month (March) into a year's lease that he was moving into relative's house who had recently died. He paid for April and May, as he left a few items in the house, but everything was gone by the second week of April, plus I was able to show the house from late March on. He left the house spotless and professionally cleaned. To this day, I use the cleaning lady he used. I was able to find an excellent new tenant who moved in Memorial Day weekend. Although he did not ask me about the deposit, I returned it minus the May utilities I paid. I didn't have to, but it just felt like the right thing to do as this gentleman was so forthright with me and paid for two months he did not live in the house. Yes, I know that was the least he was supposed to do, as technically the entire lease was due, but let's get back to the real world, not too many would have even done that.
The above may not be feasible for you as my tenant moved to a free house, but you should be able to negotiate something, if the landlord is fairly reasonable.
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