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I have recently renewed a rental lease for 9 months.
However, I really don't like living in the town I'm currently living in, and want to relocate to work at a different company and live in a different part of my city. There has also been some issues at the workplace at the company I work at that has been getting on my nerves. The manager is not receptive to my needs, and some of assistants who work with me have not been helping me. (But this is another story to talk about).
I have talked to the property manager at the manager's office here at my apartment complex and she told me that I'm responsible for all the month rent up until the end of my lease.
However, at other apartments that I have rented at in the past, you would pay an extra month of rent for penalty for breaking the lease.
What also concerns me about what the manager told me is,...isn't it illegal for the apartment to collect rent from me (after I move out of my unit), but also collect rent from a tenant or tenants who move into my unit before my lease terminates?
For example, if my lease expires on June 30, 2018, but I break the lease and move out at the end of February 2018, and new set of tenants move into my unit in April 2018,.....and the manager collects rent from the new tenants, and continues to collect rent from me (although I've moved out long in February)....isn't that considered double rent?
I have recently renewed a rental lease for 9 months.
However, I really don't like living in the town I'm currently living in, and want to relocate to work at a different company and live in a different part of my city. There has also been some issues at the workplace at the company I work at that has been getting on my nerves. The manager is not receptive to my needs, and some of assistants who work with me have not been helping me. (But this is another story to talk about).
I have talked to the property manager at the manager's office here at my apartment complex and she told me that I'm responsible for all the month rent up until the end of my lease.
However, at other apartments that I have rented at in the past, you would pay an extra month of rent for penalty for breaking the lease.
What also concerns me about what the manager told me is,...isn't it illegal for the apartment to collect rent from me (after I move out of my unit), but also collect rent from a tenant or tenants who move into my unit before my lease terminates?
For example, if my lease expires on June 30, 2018, but I break the lease and move out at the end of February 2018, and new set of tenants move into my unit in April 2018,.....and the manager collects rent from the new tenants, and continues to collect rent from me (although I've moved out long in February)....isn't that considered double rent?
Any idea(s) on how I can break my current lease?
a) pull out your copy of the lease you signed
b) read it, especially the part about leaving before the lease is up
What also concerns me about what the manager told me is,...isn't it illegal for the apartment to collect rent from me (after I move out of my unit), but also collect rent from a tenant or tenants who move into my unit before my lease terminates?
Some landlord / tenant laws apply in every state, what's described above falls into that category.
Either the convo was misunderstood by one or both of you...or PM thinks you're uninformed about landlord tenant laws.
Wash. Rev. Code § 59.18.310 (2001) Default in rent -- Abandonment -- Liability of tenant -- Landlord's remedies -- Sale of tenant's property by landlord
If the tenant defaults in the payment of rent and reasonably indicates by words or actions the intention not to resume tenancy, the tenant shall be liable for the following for such abandonment: PROVIDED, That upon learning of such abandonment of the premises the landlord shall make a reasonable effort to mitigate the damages resulting from such abandonment:
(1) When the tenancy is month-to-month, the tenant shall be liable for the rent for the thirty days following either the date the landlord learns of the abandonment, or the date the next regular rental payment would have become due, whichever first occurs.
(2) When the tenancy is for a term greater than month-to-month, the tenant shall be liable for the lesser of the following:
(a) The entire rent due for the remainder of the term; or
(b) All rent accrued during the period reasonably necessary to rerent the premises at a fair rental, plus the difference between such fair rental and the rent agreed to in the prior agreement, plus actual costs incurred by the landlord in rerenting the premises together with statutory court costs and reasonable attorney's fees.
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