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bottledthoughts
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I need some advice. I am trying to move into another property. I currently have a lease at an apartment complex, that ends May 30, 2001. I was planning on giving a 30 day notice January 30. Move out date to be February 28. When i approached the office with this, they told me i still had to pay a $705.00 "termination fee" to break the lease. Effectively, and it states in the lease, that this "termination fee" is "a month and a half rent" My question to them was, if i give a 30 day notice, and they have no problem re-renting, would i still be charged the "fee" I was told yes., that this was "buying my way out of the lease"
I was under the impression that in North Carolina (my state) , that a landlord couldn't charge "double rent" for the same property. I asked them what the point in me giving a notice was, and they said if i didn't give a notice, they would charge me for March as well!!
This is really making me angry, it sounds like extortion!! Ive been an excellent tenant, never late, never complain..
help!!
thanks
Lisa
I was under the impression that in North Carolina (my state) , that a landlord couldn't charge "double rent" for the same property. I asked them what the point in me giving a notice was, and they said if i didn't give a notice, they would charge me for March as well!!
This is really making me angry, it sounds like extortion!! Ive been an excellent tenant, never late, never complain..
help!!
thanks
Lisa