Question on breaking a lease early
My husband and I have been renting from the same landlord for almost 5 years and have always been on a year lease. Things have come up and we are not financially able to pay our rent any longer and we still have 4 months left in our lease. We [...]

My husband got a job transfer to another state. We were in a 1 year lease that was to end 11/06. We moved out on 9/15/06. We spoke with the landlord as soon as we knew of the move – 3 weeks before. (By the way our landlord resides in KS not in OH.) After [...]

If a landlord is acting in bad faith, how does that affect my ability to break the lease?
Our landlord agreed to find new tenants in order to let us out of our lease. An ad was placed in the paper (for which we were charged for) and our unit was shown to interested parties. The [...]