What is the name of your state?Ohio
I rented an apartment in 6/1997 about 5 months later I lost my job, I knew I wasn't going to be able to pay the rent. I went to the rental office before I even went past due and made them aware of the situation and to see if there would be something we could work out but they said they would except nothing less than the full rent due by the 1st, no later. I checked into possible ways of getting out of the lease and nothing worked out, Legal Aid did tell me that if I moved out volentarily and turned my keys in then they couldn't evict ...they advised I would be breaking the lease and that they could still try to get money from me but that I wouldn't get the evivtion on my record. So I took thier advise and every thing went as I was told. I found out that they could only charge me rent for as long as the apartment was empty. I never heard anything from them until the next year (1 month after my lease would have ended) I drove out to my old apartment and asked the people who where living there when they moved in and they moved in right after my lease would have ended ...so they let my apartment sit empty for the remainder of the lease. I saw a post on here from someone else and the reply indicated that the apartments had to make efforts to re-rent, this I didn't know. How can I find out if attempts were made to re-rent my unit and that they didn't just let it sit there doing nothing? (this info might be necessary , the apartment complex was brand new, I moved into the first unit that was completed, so they still had several units that where being built when I moved out. I thought maybe it sat empty because new tenants would rather live in a brand new apt. than one that was lived in for 6 mos. , or is that not a vaild reason to not re-rent?
I rented an apartment in 6/1997 about 5 months later I lost my job, I knew I wasn't going to be able to pay the rent. I went to the rental office before I even went past due and made them aware of the situation and to see if there would be something we could work out but they said they would except nothing less than the full rent due by the 1st, no later. I checked into possible ways of getting out of the lease and nothing worked out, Legal Aid did tell me that if I moved out volentarily and turned my keys in then they couldn't evict ...they advised I would be breaking the lease and that they could still try to get money from me but that I wouldn't get the evivtion on my record. So I took thier advise and every thing went as I was told. I found out that they could only charge me rent for as long as the apartment was empty. I never heard anything from them until the next year (1 month after my lease would have ended) I drove out to my old apartment and asked the people who where living there when they moved in and they moved in right after my lease would have ended ...so they let my apartment sit empty for the remainder of the lease. I saw a post on here from someone else and the reply indicated that the apartments had to make efforts to re-rent, this I didn't know. How can I find out if attempts were made to re-rent my unit and that they didn't just let it sit there doing nothing? (this info might be necessary , the apartment complex was brand new, I moved into the first unit that was completed, so they still had several units that where being built when I moved out. I thought maybe it sat empty because new tenants would rather live in a brand new apt. than one that was lived in for 6 mos. , or is that not a vaild reason to not re-rent?