Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Tennessee

My roommate committed suicide. My lease is not up for another 2 months on the house we lived in.

I do not wish to live in the house anymore. My landlord wants to hold me to the lease and pay the last two months if I move out. I was told that if I talk to a counselor that they could issue me out of the lease so that I could move. Is this true?


Asked on 7/03/10, 11:38 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Howard R. Peppel Peppel, Gomes & MacIntosh, P.C.

I am sorry about your roommate's death and I can well understand your not wanting to remain in the home; however, your landlord has the legal right to hold you to the remainder of the lease. Quite possibly, as a gesture of goodwill and human sympathy the landlord would agree to cancel the lease. but there is no legal requirement for him or her to do so.

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Answered on 7/05/10, 10:08 am


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