Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Florida
How To Break A Lease
I signed a 7 month lease after selling my house. I told the real-estate agent that I needed a short term lease because I was building another home, she stated 7 months was the shortest she could go. Suprisingly, we find out our house construction will be completed sooner than expected, leaving two months before the expiration of the lease. Unfortunately, paying a mortgage and a rental payment is too costly, and will be a financial hardship on me because I also have two children to support.
How can I break the lease without paying all the costs? How do I approach the real-estate agent without her getting upset and threaten to use legal action?
Do I have any options, if any? Help!
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: How To Break A Lease
If you could simply break the lease at will, then what good would a lease be? If you had needed to stay in the apartment for the entire 7 month period, but the landlord decided to break the lease and kick you out because the landlord found another person to pay a few hundred dollars a month more than you, could the landlord walk away from the lease without the risk of legal consequences? Of course not.
It appears you don't have much of a legal leg to stand on. Try to talk with the landlord or landlord's agent regarding your situation and humbly request that you be let out of the lease early, and maybe you'll be surprised by the result. Otherwise, seek the advice of a lawyer that will read the lease and provide you with options that I may not be aware of since I do not have the benefit of a copy of the lease to read. Good luck.
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