i am moving to wisconsin but just signed a lease is there away toget out of it? the owner of the apt building sold it right after I signed the lease now new owner.What reasons can I use to get out of a rental lease?
The answer to your problem is in the document you signed. READ YOUR LEASE. Still, depending upon how your lease is written you may have the opportunity to leave if the contract is specifically with the former owner and does not refer to the lessor as the owner. If the lessor is referred to as the owner of the property the new owner holds the same power to enforce the stipulations of the contract you agreed to when you signed the lease.What reasons can I use to get out of a rental lease?
NO! You CANNOT just break a lease because you want to move. Otherwise what would be the point of having one?!
The building selling is completely immaterial. Your lease stands with the new owner.
The only way out of a lease is if there is something wrong with the building that is a health or safety issue and they are doing nothing to fix it.
It depends what your lease says. You may have to pay a penalty of a month or so, or the entire balance of rent for the period of the lease. However, the landlord has a 'duty to mitigate' -- and must make a reasonable effort to find someone else to rent it.
Usually the only legal reasons to break a lease are:
1. the apartment is uninhabitable
2. military orders
Look for anything that could be a housing code violations like things not working
no proper insulation
anything call an inspector
and rat holes
no trash
water
1. If your landlord refuses to fix the home. By this I mean only the items in your home that are classified a necessity. Busted water lines, no heat, mold, faulty electric etc. would be examples of these.
2. Eviction. If you are not paying your rent you will be evicted. However this does not get you off the hook for your remaining rent.
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