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princesstata23
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My fiancee and I signed a lease exactly a month ago for an apartment. We paid all fees and everything was "set". When we called the day before the move-in date, they said that they couldn't give us the apartment because it was occupied by someone else. They gave us another apartment 2 days later but it was nothing like the model they showed us. The apartment we received has most kitchen and bathroom cabinets rotted, the heat didn't work for 3 days (we are in Northern Forida, it gets pretty cold), the carpets were disgusting with patches missing and all kinds of different stains on it. We requested to have this fixed and they said they couldn't do anything about it because they were not remodeling any more apartments. The next day we saw our neighbor and she said that her father talked to them and they even replaced the AC unit, the carpet, and the dishwasher for them. I believe that this was discrimination because we are college students. Also, when we went to get our copy of the lease which originally had apt.17 on it, they changed the document in 2 places so it read 22. My question is, is there any legal course of action that I can take to get out of the lease (it has been 3 days) because they gave me an apartment I didn't sign for and then changed the contract without notifying me. I heard someone saying that it was a breach of contract on their part. Is this correct?