Feeling Really uncomfortable with this!

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I posted about this issue in the Member's only forum, but now I am feeling pretty upset. I asked my landlord if I could move out early, because my fiance and I are closing on a house and are also getting married. I was perfectly willing to negotiate finding another tenant, so that he would still be able to get his full year's rent payments.

He replied with a rather rude email, saying that he didn't allow people to break the lease, and that I would have to find a sub-leaser. I don't have a problem with that. He did say he would "work with me." Which is ironic, because when the broker who is handling the sale of the house emailed him a form to sign which pertained to my current rental, he ignored it, along with her calls and follow up emails, even though this might have screwed up our closing on the house. It's as if he is saying "f**k you since, you want to leave." I feel like someone in the middle of a messy divorce.

I sent emails to my neighbors, asking if they knew of anyone who would like to sublet. Aside from two congratulations on the house purchase, no responses. My fiance is pissed off and wants us to just leave. But even though I don't like my landlord as a person, he has been overall a very fair landlord. I just feel awful right now.

He's behaving like an as*hole now regardless of how nice he was when you were continuously handing him money. If you have no legal contract that could backfire on you, I say just leave.

I have broken a lease before and just moved out. Here is what happens.

You are served with a summons and given a court date and taken to civil court. You go to court and tell the judge what happened. If it's like my case, the judge rules for the landlord - we moved because there was a crack dealer next door to us who rented from the same person and neither the realty company nor the landlord would do anything about it - and I had to pay my rent for the months I missed, but I was given a long time to pay it.

It's not that big a deal to skip out on a lease. I'd just do that if I were you, or move anyway and pay him what you can when you can but have receipts for it. Cancelled checks or money order receipts work.

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Hartz, I was in a similar situation ten years ago. I couldn't close on the property I'm living on now until the twenty-eighth of the month--two days before my lease expired. Not only would they not prorate my rent, but insisted that if I wasn't completely out in less than 48 hours that I would have to sign another six-month lease. I had to take two days off from work and do nothing but move my stuff, day and night.

It certainly left a bad taste in my mouth, but it was assuaged knowing I'd never have to deal with that kind of situation again. I not only said good bye, but good riddance.

I finally decided to talk to an attorney. He said that because I am in a subsidized rent program, where I pay a small portion of the rent and the program covers the rest, that I can just move. Because I am disabled, if the landlord decides to take me to court, he will have to pay all the court costs and fees, because my sole income is SSD. And the lease that I signed was not his lease, but one generated by the subsidized rent program, which does not allow him to penalize me for back rent.

I've lived here for 5 years, been a good tenant, never late with my rent, and he suddenly decides to treat me like s**t. It really sucks.