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Ganesh722
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My wife and I are at our wits end and would apprecitate any information supplied. Well here goes: We reside in New York and had signed a lease with our landlord that is for one year with an expiration of 10/31/00. Around April or May of this year we called our landlord and advised him that we were in the process of looking for a home and asked about the possibility of terminating our lease early. He wished us luck and was agreeable on early termination as long as he was able to show the apartment and asked that we did not terminate when it was more difficult to rent out the apartment. We did not put this request down in writing and he did not ask for it in writing.
We eventually found a home and began the purchasing process. We called the landlord and told him that we would most likely be vacating the apartment by October 1. Again nothing was put in writing about our leaving early but he was agreeable to our request. Well as luck would have it the closing date on our home came and went and the process was not completed. There were problems encountered by our sellers that they had no control over and the closing was pushed back to the middle of October.
I called the landlord by the last week of September and told him of the problem in the closing and he stated that these things happen but to try and do the best we can in order to vacate in a timely manner.
It is now October and our landlord has changed his attitude. He demanded that we vacate and has threatened to sue us if we don't. We had never put anything down in writing about our intention of vacating early and unfortunately can not vacate till the home we are purchasing closes which will coincide with the end of our lease by the end of October. I had sent out the rent payment for October when I realized that we would still be residing in the apartment. Can the landlord drag us in to court eventhough the lease is till the end of October and can he keep our security because he claims we are costing him money? Thanks!
We eventually found a home and began the purchasing process. We called the landlord and told him that we would most likely be vacating the apartment by October 1. Again nothing was put in writing about our leaving early but he was agreeable to our request. Well as luck would have it the closing date on our home came and went and the process was not completed. There were problems encountered by our sellers that they had no control over and the closing was pushed back to the middle of October.
I called the landlord by the last week of September and told him of the problem in the closing and he stated that these things happen but to try and do the best we can in order to vacate in a timely manner.
It is now October and our landlord has changed his attitude. He demanded that we vacate and has threatened to sue us if we don't. We had never put anything down in writing about our intention of vacating early and unfortunately can not vacate till the home we are purchasing closes which will coincide with the end of our lease by the end of October. I had sent out the rent payment for October when I realized that we would still be residing in the apartment. Can the landlord drag us in to court eventhough the lease is till the end of October and can he keep our security because he claims we are costing him money? Thanks!