Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Florida

In May of 2014, I signed a one year lease with a pair of people who live in Orlando. I was working for Universal at the time and needed an apartment to live in to go to work, so I signed the lease alongside them. About a month into the lease, I made a decision to leave Orlando and move back home to Jacksonville so that I could be with my girlfriend. I left a note, packed up, and left the complex. Every month since, I have payed portions of the rent if not half the rent to tide them over until they could find a replacement roommate. It's now January 2015, they haven't found a roommate, and are currently threatening a lawsuit if I can't pay them 2000, as they claim its the difference in rent I haven't paid in the past. What should I do and what legal responsibility do I have fir this amount they claimed to have calculatedf?


Asked on 1/07/15, 3:38 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Barry Stein De Cardenas, Freixas, Stein & Zachary

Your lease agreement controls your responsibilities. Impossible to answer any of your inquiries without seeing the lease. Hire an attorney to review and advise.

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Answered on 1/08/15, 3:37 pm


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