<prompt> Human: My wife and I are about to move out of our rental property into our first home! Unfortunately we have to break our rental lease to make the closing date. The rental lease indicates that if we break it we have to pay the remaining rent until a new tenant moves in or we pay off the remaining lease amount. This leaves us owing the landlord 1800 dollars as they have indicated they dont want another tenant right now. They offered to half the amount due but thats still 900 dollars. I get that we probably should not have agreed to such a terrible lease in the first place but we werent so good with our money then. We are trying to grow up and make right choices now and I am hoping you intelligent people could help me out.  <response>: This leaves us owing the landlord 1800 dollars as they have indicated they dont want another tenant right now. Depending on your jurisdiction, that could be your way out. Most of the tenant laws Ive seen require the landlord to attempt to fill the vacancy in good faith. If you have it in writing that he doesnt plan to search for a tenant, you might not have to pay anything.Not a lawyer, etc. 