Need to break lease due to job relocation to another state

[matia]

Currently live in CA and must break 2-year lease after one year due to job relocation to another state. Landlord informed via email on June 16. Home not advertised until July 10th, lockbox not placed until July 16th. Landlord told realtor NOT to place For Rent sign outside home. Landlord informed tenant via phone conversation on July 21st to "hold off" on paying Aug rent until her husband's surgery results (scheduled for July 3oth) are known because they may "need to move in to the house themselves". It does not seem like landlord has made a "reasonable effort" to get the home rented since informed of our move-out date. Should we be responsible for anymore payments, realtor commissions, ect?

 

[xylene]

It seems like your LL is on the verge of letting you out of the lease...

 

[STEPHAN]

Did the landlord confirm your notice given via email?

 

[FarmerJ]

Because the LL isn't moving swiftly enough for your taste so now you think your LL is not making a reasonable effort ? and how do you know the LL has not been telling all their friends and family to spread the word about us having a vacancy ? ON top of major health issues in the LLs family? No matter what you have broken your lease and if the LL cuts you a break financially wunderbar! Has your LL told you that your going to have to pay for any empty time before they know if they are going to need to occupy the home ?

 

[matia]

Because the LL isn't moving swiftly enough for your taste so now you think your LL is not making a reasonable effort ? and how do you know the LL has not been telling all their friends and family to spread the word about us having a vacancy ? ON top of major health issues in the LLs family? No matter what you have broken your lease and if the LL cuts you a break financially wunderbar! Has your LL told you that your going to have to pay for any empty time before they know if they are going to need to occupy the home ?

No...we have not been told to "pay for empty time"...

 

[matia]

Did the landlord confirm your notice given via email?

yes

 

[adjusterjack]

It does not seem like landlord has made a "reasonable effort" to get the home rented since informed of our move-out date. Should we be responsible for anymore payments, realtor commissions, ect?

Neither you nor anybody else is going to be able to answer that question until everything plays out. I suggest that you not pay anything more but put the money aside and don't spend it in case you do have to pay it.

If the owners end up moving in, there is no mitigation and you owe nothing.

If they end up renting out the place and a couple of months have gone by you will still owe for the reasonable amount of time that it should have taken to find a replacement tenant. "Reasonable" is subject to interpretation. If you both can't come to an agreement that you can live with you end up in court.

Just understand that you WILL owe something if it does get re-rented. How much is anybody's guess.

 

[reenzz]

What date did you move out and return the keys?

 

[LdiJ]

Because the LL isn't moving swiftly enough for your taste so now you think your LL is not making a reasonable effort ? and how do you know the LL has not been telling all their friends and family to spread the word about us having a vacancy ? ON top of major health issues in the LLs family? No matter what you have broken your lease and if the LL cuts you a break financially wunderbar! Has your LL told you that your going to have to pay for any empty time before they know if they are going to need to occupy the home ?

The landlord told them that the landlord may need to move back into the house. I think its pretty clear that the landlord is not currently attempting to rent the place.

 

[reenzz]

The landlord told them that the landlord may need to move back into the house. I think its pretty clear that the landlord is not currently attempting to rent the place.

At yet the home has been advertised and a lock box has been placed on the property.

 

[Shadowbunny]

The LL telling the realtor to not put a "for rent" sign outside the home is NO indication that the LL isn't making an attempt to rent it. As a LL, I do the same thing on my rentals - we don't put signs out. Ever. However, the properties are marketed online.

 

[matia]

The LL telling the realtor to not put a "for rent" sign outside the home is NO indication that the LL isn't making an attempt to rent it. As a LL, I do the same thing on my rentals - we don't put signs out. Ever. However, the properties are marketed online.

 

[FarmerJ]

For rent signs invite those who are up to no good to look further to verify a home is vacant then to break in and cut open walls in order to steal copper and some will go as far as cutting out wiring and soft copper gas lines too. If you paid July rent then your LL telling you to hold off on August and why is a attempt to be more fair. Were you on good enough terms with a former neighbor who is home so much that they would notice whether people have been coming or going from the house as if its being shown?