Landlord still wants rent after filling vacant room

[deckar01]

I signed a 6 month lease in San Francisco, but after 2 months notified the landlord that I was moving in 30 days. I told the landlord that I understood my legal obligation to pay the lease, but we agreed that he would not have any trouble finding a new tenant.

30 days passed, I vacated the room, and a new tenant moved in the day I moved out.

A week later the landlord bills me for another month of rent. I told the landlord that he had already filled my room, but the landlord replied that the person in my room was actually an existing tenant in another one of his apartments that requested to move into my room.

I'm having trouble finding any legal precedence for my situation. Is my lease still in effect if my landlord has filled my room with another tenant?

Thanks in advance!

 

[STEPHAN]

If somebody else moved in, the space is rented.

If the space was empty, you could help lower your obligations by finding a tenant. You obviously cannot to this when somebody else is in there.

 

[FarmerJ]

In your next communications ask this LL if he would like to explain that idea to the court? it is rented out now and that should be the end of it.