lease renewal?
Question by lynnepeterpan: lease renewal?
my nephew is renting an apartment his lease is up on august 16th the leasing agent gave them a new lease in may to sign
he told them that he might not be staying he is planning on moving to fla. they said he had to sign the lease now because the rent might be going up well he told them in june that he was not staying and now they are holding him to the new lease.
do you think he still owes the 3 month they are trying to charge him for leaving in august when his intial lease is up
Best answer:
Answer by Adlpated
This is hard to answer without seeing the original lease. Many common leases have a clause that a tenant needs to provide notice of intent not to renew. It’s not good enough to say that you “may” move, and not sign the lease.
If there is no clause in the lease, and nothing that says he needs to give a certain notice of intent to move (even if it’s at the end of the lease) then he should be clear to move without penalty.
I think someone needs to carefully read the entire lease.
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he never should have signed the new lease – and they were in the wrong to force him to do so.
I would move out and let them take it to court because they never should have forced him to sign a new lease when he said that he may be leaving.