Title: Breaking A Lease In Chicago - Explained | Domu Apartments
Headings: How to Get Out of a Lease in Chicago
How to Get Out of a Lease in Chicago
How to Break a Lease on an Apartment in Chicago?
How to Get Out of a Lease for Your Apartment by Agreement?
How Much Does it Cost to Break a Lease?
How to Break a Lease by SubLeasing and Releasing an Apartment?
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Content: The landlord can require consent to sublease, but consent cannot be unreasonably withheld. Typically, this means that a landlord cannot refuse a subtenant that meets the landlord’s legitimate standards, such as credit worthiness, as long as those standards do not exceed those that the landlord had required of the original tenant. In a Chicago apartment sublease, the original tenant takes over the role of landlord to the subtenant. The original tenant remains liable for the apartment rent, damage, and sub-tenant misconduct. The original tenant also assumes all the responsibilities of a landlord under Chicago landlord-tenant law. Subleasing is risky and rarely advised. In contrast to subletting, when a tenant releases, the original tenant does not become a landlord and does not become liable for the new tenant’s conduct. Re-letting involves the original tenant presenting the landlord with a new tenant and the landlord signing a Chicago apartment lease with the new tenant; this relieves the original tenant of further obligations under the lease. Tenants in Chicago do not have the legal right to re-let, but many landlords allow it.