Breaking An Apartment Lease In Massachusetts Due To New Home Purchase?
We recently bought a new house. Gave notice to end our annual lease (Sept to Sept) June 1st. We closed on our new house in May – Lease ended in September. We paid Mays rent with our last months payment (first/last month paid at beginning of lease agreement). The landlord re-rented the apartment July 1st, and is asking for us to pay Junes rent. Are there any laws in Massachusetts specifically to breaking a lease due to a home purchase?
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00Converter, I moved from Massachusetts to Delaware last year, so I’m not sure who I could call to help you. Here is a list of apartments in Massachusetts that you can contact. http://www.findanapartmentonline.com/Mas… I’m sure someone can help you.
Hope you find what you need
You had a legal obligation to pay the lease throughout the term and you chose to break lease. You have no OUT because you decided to buy a home. You need to deal with the legal and natural consequences of your actions. READ your lease.
Your LL is being pretty reasonable, letting you out of the legal obligation to pay through September, NOT charging you a reletting fee or penalty, and only charging you for the month the place was empty.
No dont pay! If you paid first and last months deposit/rent that is what it is for! If the landlord had you pay first and last months rent then June is already paid for! Remind the landlord of that.
If you never had to put down first and lasts when you leased the apartment then I would express to the landlord that since you werent living there you werent using any utilities. Try to talk him into letting you pay half the months rent instead of the full amount. If he wont go for that then yes you have to pay Junes rent (unless above happened)
What if the landlord wanted to boot you out because he decided to buy a house? Bottom line is there are no exceptions for breaking a lease. The law does not allow you to pass your misfortune on to someone else any more than it allows them to pass their misfortune on to you.
In addition, even if you were month-to-month, you’d still have to give 30 days notice so, either way, you’re obligated for June’s rent.
You owe June’s rent. Be glad the landlord rented it starting in July or you would owe for July too. Buying a house is not a reason to get out of a rental agreement. If you wanted that flexibility you should have gotten a month to month lease, which would have been more expensive.