Breaking A Lease because of relocation

[JodiA24]

I work for a Real Estate Law Firm in Charlotte, North Carolina and am being transferred to a new Columbia, South Carolina Office we our opening. I have two months left on my lease. They are trying to make me pay. I am embaresed because I have two college degrees and have been a real estate (residential closings) paralegal for two years now and I cannot figure out how to get out of this lease, neither can any of my attorney bosses. I cannot find a job in Charlotte making a copmprable salary to even pay my extremely high rent.
In addition there was no transfer clause in my lease.
Also the rent is so high in my apartment community, that there is an abudance of empty apartments, so I do not feel that they will rent mine right away.
If there is no legal way out of this lease, what are the reprocussions I could face, other than a juggment being placed for rent and possesion in Mecklenburg County?

Somebody please help and quick. I have already moved to Columbia and still paying rent in Charlotte

 

[Cvillecpm]

Employer should offer you a "relocation" package to move to SC and to offer to pay any "penalty" on getting out of the NC lease. Most large RE firms have a policy on this - pay 2 months rent and forfeit deposit.

Also, have NC attorneys take over lease and use as a corporate meeting place - for depositions, etc. When mgmt finds that this is the alternative to allowing you to leave, they may accept payment in lieu of your continuing to be liable under lease.

Get creative!!

 

[JodiA24]

Thank you so much for your quick response. My bosses are not going to pay my way out of lease because I came from Columbia in the first place and I begged to come back, but my apartment does not know that. Also it is my firms deposit that I will be losing in addition to the rent.

 

[dj1]

WELL welcome to the new economy where the bosses screw the employees....

YOU are responsible for the rent, and you must consider it a cost of relocation

Also since your boss put up the deposit they will take it out of your check.

Having a judgement against will make it harder to rent an apartment or to buy a house PLUS you still are going to have to pay it someday.

Where did you move to in columbia?

I lived off of two notch rd and belt line, there was a street that went between them..division st. i think. so long ago I worked for WOLO tv 25

PS...you should STOP living so high off the hog....you have too many bills and not enough income.DO you know how to do anything? well rent a small house or get a roomate, WHY on earth did you move to a complex at such a high rent?

Do you know how to cook? Do you know how to take care of a car? Are You a spendthrift and have high monthly car payments? Are you a bad driver and dont have safe drivers?

SEE if you can learn how to be cheap.

[Edited by dj1 on 05-27-2001 at 03:47 PM]

 

[JodiA24]

Listen, my financial background has nothing to do with it. I was a 24 year old single female moving to a strange city, so I need something nice and safe. I pay over 700 a month for a one bedroom place, and I make well over 40 thousand dollars a year. It is the principle. I am being transferred almost 2 hours away. My bosses did that so I could be close to my parents who live in Irmo, because I have had serious medical problems since christmas (reproductive endocrine). A frugal lifestyle would not change the fact that I owe almost 2 thou in rent. I do not have a car payment, not that that matters. And I get the safe drivers discount. I can also cook. I live within my means. I am 25 with two college degrees under my belt, so yes I know some things. But I appreciate your concern.

[Edited by JodiA24 on 05-27-2001 at 04:29 PM]

 

[dj1]

OK 2 college degree smarty:

Here is the principle:

#1 rule in Life Skills is the LANDLORD always gets PAID FIRST!

#2 when you sign a LEASE or CONTRACT it protect BOTH parties from unlawful behavior....and who ever breaks a lease for whatever reason has to pay penalties to the aggrived party.

...YES if a landlord want you out before the lease is up..they will have to PAY YOU to move!

#3 Unless it its an medical emergency like you are dying, you will owe the $2000 since the apartment is not easily rentable. You should have helped them re-rent the place before you moved ..help them show it to prosepective tenants. The complex CAN lower the price and you would have to pay the difference for the rest of your lease.

#4 Did you take pictures before you left? Chances are since they are Southern REDNECKS they will stiff you for cleaning painting repiars on top of the $2000.

#5 The only chance is to counter-sue them and let them prove they made a sufficent attemp at re renting at THE same or lower rental price, where are the ads they placed in the newspaper? If they did not make an attemp to re rent a judge could penalize them by not making you pay the FULL amount they are suing for.

I am also a paralegal, and the job market sucks here in NYC.

 

[JodiA24]

It figures an obnoxious twit like you would be from NYC. I thought you were a landlord the way your defend them. I am from 100% Italian from Philadelphia.

It just drives me crazy that I am going to be transfered and still responsible. And that in additio to my two college degrees, I have an associates degree as a paralegal, and an ABA certificate aand I cannot find a loophole out of this mess.

I wonder if I bring my hospital and specialist records and get a note from my Doctor if that will do any good. I can work, but i have endocrine problems that make me ,miserable and my Dc said he thinks it would be a good idea if i was not so far away from my mother. HMMMMMMMMMM. But I am not dibilitated in any way. But I did take almiost a month off to recuop in March and see reproductive specialists at Duke. What do you think TWIT?

 

[dj1]

OK but there is nothing I saw in the NC laws that allow you to terminate your lease early UNLESS you are in the Military.

But also i can add if you have been to school you KNOW that it is ILLEGAL for a landlord to collect FULL rent from 2 different people for the same apartment.

So the apartment better be empty, you can supeona the electric bill, phone bill cable, for the apartment to see if they re-rented it, before your lease has expired.

Remember you are in the south dealing with low life scumbag COMMUNIST REDNECKS hell bent on destroying our great country!

Hope this helps.

 

[JodiA24]

I know they can not double collect, that is why i mentioned the over abundance of apartments. I do not think they will rent it.

oh well i am screwed.

Thanks for trying