Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

I have lease with my current address and need to break it. In my lease it states that I have to give 60 days notice, but I went to the leasing office and asked what I need to do in order to break my lease and they stated that I need to give them 30 days notice and so I did. Now I get an email from the leasing office stating that I have to give 60 days notice and I am responsible for the additional rent to break it. Had I known that I had to give 60 days notice I would have saved myself one months lease by giving the notice earlier and not later (due to invalid data provided when visited leasing office).

-Max


Asked on 8/04/09, 1:48 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
John Gibson

Read your lease agreement carefully. I'm sure there's a clause in there that says something like "any amendment/modification to this agreement must be in writing and signed by both parties" and "this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties". In a nutshell this means that it doesn't matter what they said to you. Both parties signed an agreement with specific terms regardless of what was said later.

In the future, make sure you don't rely on anybody's oral representations. Always get it in writing.

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Answered on 8/04/09, 5:38 pm


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