Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Pennsylvania

My husband and I signed a lease for our townhouse that ended in July of 2016. In April of 2016 we obtained a verbal agreement from our landlord to end our lease early without penalty due to the purchase of our house. We helped him rent the place to new tenants so that there was no gap in rent. Our last rent payment was May 1st and the new tenants signed a lease and paid their first rent payment on June 1st. Now our landlord is saying that he is going to sue us for the 2 months rent that we didn't pay since we didn't have a written agreement. Can he do this?


Asked on 7/19/16, 6:31 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
John Davidson Law Office of John A. Davidson

Sure he can. The question is can he prevail? While it's true you breached the lease you mitigated damages. As a landlord he'll be in front of the DJ again and he doesn't want that DJ to think he's a jerk. Then again maybe he is a jerk. If he got rent equal or greater than what you were paying then what are his damages? none in fact if he got more rent his damages are negative.

{John}

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Answered on 7/19/16, 7:21 am


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