Break lease due to job relocation or schooling?

[spin842]

I am a school teacher in Dayton, Ohio. I have three more months remaining on my lease. I know that I will not be returning to this school district next year. Which means, I will be accepting a position 50+ miles away from my current residence. Is there a law that states that due to convenience and accessability I may break my lease? If so how do I go about making this known to my landlord? If not, could graduate work in another state (Vermont for three months) constitute breaking a lease? Help! I'm a poor teacher who needs to find a new apartment and who cannot pull off two rents until the original lease ends!!
Thank you for any assistance.

 

[Tracey]

Sorry, once you sign a lease you're stuck until it expires or the landlord releases you. Your options are: find an apartment in the new town but sign a lease that begins in 3 months, or ask your landlord what it will cost to break the lease. Many landlords have a set fee to buy your way out of the lease contract.

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This is not legal advice and you are not my client. Double check everything with your own attorney and your state's laws.

 

[spin842]

I'm a bit confused then. I just spoke to a rental agency that has no ties to me or my landlord and they said that there is something called a "lease termination" law that provides a tenant the option to break a lease due to job relocation?!?

 

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by spin842:
I'm a bit confused then. I just spoke to a rental agency that has no ties to me or my landlord and they said that there is something called a "lease termination" law that provides a tenant the option to break a lease due to job relocation?!? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

My response:

I just spent some time looking at Ohio law, and could not locate what the "rental agency" had said to you. Call them back and ask them to cite the Code Section number to you, and I'll look it up and post it with my comments.

IAAL



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[Tracey]

I didn't find anything like that in Ohio law, either. You can always just teminate the lease and breach your contract. The problem with this is that you remain responsible for the rent until landlord finds a new tenant. Landlord has a duty to mitigate damages by finding new tenants ASAP. However, if it's hard to find new tenants in summer in your town, landlord may be able to argue the s/he tried really, really hard to find a new tenant but couldn't. You'd be stuck in that case.

Maybe the agency was referring to a term they commonly put in their leases that lets a tenant break the lease by paying an extra month's rent or a flat fee?

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This is not legal advice and you are not my client. Double check everything with your own attorney and your state's laws.