<prompt> Human: Desperately seeking advice on how to handle an unexpected 15k bill. My partner doesnt think that we have any option but to go to collections, I would really like to buy a house within the next few years though and dont want to jeopardize that. My boyfriend got a job in another state and we talked with our leasing office about what options were available for ending the lease. They said that we should put in a 60 days notice and pay those two months, a reletting fee, and then they would fill our apartment and we would be square with them. We did this and were contacted that our apartment had been rented out and we were all done with our relationship.We were told verbally that we would not need to payback the specials 380 off rent each month, that we could continue paying monthly until it was rented instead of in a lump sum, and that we should break the lease as they were sure that our apartment would rent immediately. We just got the following bill: accelerated rent: 71-1213 10.830.00 various cleaning: 125 Payback specials:2,660.00 reletting fee: 1,534.25Total 15,149We are currently staying rent free at my brothers househe is moving to a new state and we cant continue to live with him, but as soon as we were notified that our apartment was rented and our obligation was over we rented an apartment.New apartment is 2.1kmo on a salary of 90,000. We havent even moved in yet, but we signed the lease. I can try to get a job at my old company, but we have one car and the most that I could earn in the one month is 1,8007,000 in savings, not counting what we will have to pay as deposit in new place. We dont have the money, especially this month with the move in amount due at our new place. Are we hopeless, should I sell all of my furniture, is collections as bad as it sounds? Looking back if we had ignored the leasing office and not broken the lease we would have saved the 1,534 fee, 4,500 in rent discount repayment, and 100s for storing our stuff for months. Hard lesson to learn.  <response>: Go to rlegaladvice I can tell you a lot of that does not add up under Texas rental law as I believe Texas has some hard limits on what they can charge you for breaking a lease generally x number of months and they have to make good effort to re rent the thing during that time span. Other wise you can tell them to pound sand.What I smell is them hoping you can not afford a lawyer and screw you out of cash. I have never heard of a complex trying to get 15k out of someone.big time for one only charging 2k a month. I could understand a 3-4k bill 2 months rent no problem but 15k I would say get a lawyer and tell them to F themselves. 