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How can I get out of a 2 year house lease contract?
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How can I get out of a 2 year house lease contract? My marriage didn’t work out, I’m divorcing my husband and I want out of a 2 year lease contract that me and my soon to be ex-husband signed a couple of months ago. Need your sound advice. Thank you.
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7 Comments
June 2nd, 2010 at 3:57 pm
You’ll have to talk to your landlord. Unfortunately, if there’s nothing wrong with the place, there’s not really much you can do. But maybe the landlord will let you out of the contract with your husband’s permission, and leave him on it.
June 2nd, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Ask the housing authority and see if they are willing to work with you. If they are not, stop paying the rent or find some other way to become evicted.
June 3rd, 2010 at 12:05 pm
sorry but this is a legal issue and you are probably on the hook until the 2 years is up. Read the contract you signed and see if there is an out.
Since you both signed it, you are both responsible. TALK TO THE LANDLORD! The landlord can sue for breach of contract.
June 5th, 2010 at 2:33 am
usually what happens is – if the landlord is able to lease it – you are then out of it –
but you are liable for the rent until he does lease it – good luck!!!!
June 8th, 2010 at 7:56 am
yea good luck with that, the only way to break it is to let your landlord know what happened and move out. You will be responsible for rent until its leased again, and what you don’t pay usually goes against your credit
June 10th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
I’d talk to the landlord and see if you can work up a compromise. Like giving the landlord some time to find a suitable replacement instead of up and leaving them dry. Or perhaps agree to let them keep the security deposit if they let you out of the contract early?
I wouldn’t deliberately get evicted as then they can put a negative on your credit report (if it’s on the table) or you won’t be able to use them as a future reference — which any GOOD landlord would require.
Remember your soon to be ex signed the contract too. Divorced or not he is still responsible for half the payments.
June 13th, 2010 at 2:03 am
Talk to your landlord. If you can find a qualified renter, they will often forgive any remaining lease.
In future, make sure that you add to your lease that you can end it penalty free with 2 months notice in the event of a divorce, domestic violence or change of job more than 50 files from dwelling. It has saved my butt 3 times from having to continue a lease.
If he asks about the domestic violence issue, just say that you don’t actually expect this at all, but you would have to get a restraining order and can’t afford the place on your own.