Apartment Lease Contract: Fill & Download for Free

A lease contract is still a contract and is still in effect even if you have been laid off or lost your income for whatever reason. Problem is the enforcement. Once you leave the country (i.e.the US) there is no strong arm of the law that can reach your home country in a financially feasible way to collect the rest of your lease balance. You are kinda off the hook.Problem with that is, your account will be turned into collections and if you are planing to come back to the US, you will be blacklisted by this leasing company and their affiliated companies for renting from them again. Also, your collections notice will put a huge black mark on your credit report, which will be there for the next 7 years and then some.

Right this second, there are a few problems.How exactly will I tell my current hospital that I’ve accepted another position? Do I tell them that I have bad news? Do I come in happy? Do I come in a somber mood? Do I keep it strictly business? The thing is, my demeanor is usually really happy. Anything else seems contrived. But coming in super gleeful as I tell them I’m leaving is going to come across as crowing. I feel like I’m breaking up with someone, and they’re going to be unhappy no matter how I bring it up.How the hell do I get out of my current apartment lease? The rent is $2.1K a month. There was a pretty sweet deal at first where I got 2 months free. I very much expected to be in this job until October, so I didn’t want a lease that expired in June. I ended up signing a 15-month lease, with the first 2 months free. Well, in order to break the contract, they want 3 months of rent PLUS the money from the initial “concession” of 2 months. This means I’d have to pay 5 months worth of rent—$10.5K—to get out of my lease. That’s a stupid amount of money to drop on essentially nothing.4. BUY-OUT PROCEDURES. You may buy out of the LeaseContract prior to the end of the lease term and cut off allliability for paying rent for the remainder of the lease term ifall of the following occur:(a) you give us written notice of buy-out at least 60 daysprior to the new termination date(b) you specify the new termination date in the notice, i.e.,the date by which you’ll move out;(c) you are not in default under the Lease Contract on thedate you give us the notice of buy-out;(d) you are not in default under the Lease Contract on thenew termination date (move-out date);(e) you move out on or before the new termination date anddo not hold over;(f) you pay us a buy-out fee (consideration) of $6312.00;(g) you pay us the amount of any concessions you receivedwhen signing the Lease Contract; and(h) you comply with any special provisions in paragraph 9 below.5. WHEN PAYABLE. The buy-out fee in paragraph 4(f) is dueand payable no later than 30 days after you give us yourbuy-out notice. The total dollar amount of any concessionsregarding rent or other monetary lease obligations for theentire lease term is $10520.00 and is due payable on thesame day as the buy-out fee, subject to any special provisionsin paragraph 9 regarding the amount, calculation method, orpayment date.I’m going to try to negotiate with them, but I’m probably going to hire a lawyer and see if there is any way I can pay less money on this.Where am I going to land in Europe next month? This is a very practical question for me. For a variety of reasons, my favorite airline is Norwegian. I find that flying in their premium cabin is just about the best deal I’ve seen. I have long legs. I hate being cramped. But paying for a first class ticket on an international flight would also be needlessly extravagant. So, Norwegian it is. I can fly comfortably to Europe for about $500 one way. If I want a direct flight from the US—and I do—my best bet would be to land in either Rome, Amsterdam, Barcelona, or Madrid. But this isn’t where I was trying to go. I want to go to Budapest and/or Prague. Do I land in Amsterdam and fly out the same day? That sounds painful. Do I land there and fly out the next day? Well, if I’m going to spend a night there, why not at least 2? And if 2, why not 3? So, perhaps I should just skip Prague and just do Amsterdam and Budapest this time? I don’t want to see a million places. I want to go somewhere for a few days and chill.Update: some solutions: Habib Fanny's answer to What problem did you solve?

Apartment leases are full of them.One had a premise that you could be in breach of the lease for “any repair or maintenance" to your car in the parking lot. Now, I understand they probably don't want you rebuilding your engine or changing (and possibly spilling) your oil, but with that language I could be evicted for changing the air filter, replacing a headlight or taillight bulb, or getting a jump start.They did agree to change it to allow minor repairs/maintenance that can be completed in a single day and don't involve draining liquids. That, I was fine with.So read before you sign, and make sure you understand the implications of it. Would they have actually evicted me for changing a bulb? Probably not, they always were reasonable when I lived there. But I still don't want the contract to say they can.