Breaking Lease Letter: Fill & Download for Free

Taking the deposit is a standard response for breaking lease. It could have been worse. http://www.tenantsinfo.com/breaking.html has more information on breaking lease, if your interested in what it could have cost.While you didn't sign a lease you did agree verbally and you also continued to pay rent. That would, in court, generally be enough to renew the lease at least in most states. Your landlord should still have sent you a letter explaining why you didn't get your deposit back, that is assuming of course you left them your new address. If not they have 30 days after they get your forwarding address to send you that note.Even if you weren't legally held responsible for the lease because it wasn't renewed month-to-months are required to give 30 days notice before they move. If you did not you are responsible for a months rent. If there was damages or cleaning that needs to be done that months rent and the those would probably be enough to eat up most if not all the deposit. You should still get a letter explain how the deposit was used however.

YES! Please read in your lease….. About breaking lease… Unless you have a good reason to break your lease.If you signed a one year lease and you have lived there for 9 months. And you break it. You owed them three remaining months to make a monthly payment arrangement. If you have been sent many letters for the past 6 months and ignored it. Defaulted it. Your landlord can sue you.And you could get bad rental and credit history for 7 years. Think about it.

I used to be a landlord. There is a code that you have respect the right to peaceful enjoyment of your tenants home. Even Judge Judy will tell you that! You are entitled to 24–48 hours notice before an inspection. Check your lease. Most leases provide for review once a year maybe twice. This also applies to when you are not home. They must give you reasonable notice which usually means 24 hours. The exception is for a legitimate EMERGENCY such as a water leak, gas leak, or fire. You have the right to privacy, and your landlord must respect that. Inspection and repairs can require notice; EMERGENCY is the only exception. READ THE LEASE. Don’t just sign it. Some people are eccentric and have no business being landlords. I have experienced that landlords not happy with their own life NEED to make YOU their life one way or the other.You can give a cease and desist notice to an abusive landlord who breaks the law and violates your privacy. Send it registered mail and require a written response within 3 days. Get both notarized and have the post office date stamp the letters before sealing. Priority mail is trackable and therefore registered by the tracking number. If they don’t answer send a registered certificate of nonresponse, then whatever terms you requested in the first cease and desist letter, becomes a contract by default and a court will uphold in your favor unless the landlord has the Judge in his pocket! You COULD file it with the clerk of the court. Now you have grounds to break the lease, documented, witnessed by the government, and filed in the public. If the behavior continues, you have documented proof and a legal commercial contract because they did not answer you. Not really that complicated. I never bothered my tenants.That is harassment.