This is a case from MI.
A friend of mine signed a lease on an apartment with two other people near Michigan State University. However, she now needs to get out of the lease to live on campus. She no longer drives which will make it almost impossible to get to class if living in this apartment.
The only real catch I could find was that she had not been giving a period in which to cancel without penalty, even though the lease calls for one. The roommates had signed the lease almost 6 weeks before my friend and the period for cancellation that was set expired before my friend even signed the lease. There is also the fact that the landlord did not provide my friend with a copy of the lease at the signing and did not do so until confronted in person today.
I am trying to find out if the lack of a cancellation period would be grounds to terminate the lease and how to go about doing so. (Funds are not available to secure legal aid unless ABSOLUTELY neccessary.) I am also trying to determine if the fact that the approval of the lease was based soley on the other two roommates would have any impact on this. (They did not even have my friend fill out an application for the lease nor did they do a credit check.)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
A friend of mine signed a lease on an apartment with two other people near Michigan State University. However, she now needs to get out of the lease to live on campus. She no longer drives which will make it almost impossible to get to class if living in this apartment.
The only real catch I could find was that she had not been giving a period in which to cancel without penalty, even though the lease calls for one. The roommates had signed the lease almost 6 weeks before my friend and the period for cancellation that was set expired before my friend even signed the lease. There is also the fact that the landlord did not provide my friend with a copy of the lease at the signing and did not do so until confronted in person today.
I am trying to find out if the lack of a cancellation period would be grounds to terminate the lease and how to go about doing so. (Funds are not available to secure legal aid unless ABSOLUTELY neccessary.) I am also trying to determine if the fact that the approval of the lease was based soley on the other two roommates would have any impact on this. (They did not even have my friend fill out an application for the lease nor did they do a credit check.)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!