Title: Moving Out of a Rental: Important Steps to Keep Your Landlord Happy and Get Your Security Deposit Back | Lawyers.com
Headings: Moving Out of a Rental: Important Steps to Keep Your Landlord Happy
Moving Out of a Rental: Important Steps to Keep Your Landlord Happy
Give Your Landlord the Required Amount of Notice
How to End a Month-to-Month Rental Agreement
How to End a Fixed-Term Lease
Exceptions: When You Might be Able to Break Your Lease Without Consequences
Try to End the Tenancy on a Positive Note

Content: Most leases don’t allow subleasing or assigning without the landlord’s consent, so try to work details out (again, in writing) with your landlord. Offer to help your landlord find a suitable tenant (someone with good credit and references) to take over your rental. Break your lease. If neither of the above options work, you might need to break the lease. Even if you give the landlord notice, you might still be on the hook for paying rent for the full lease term if your landlord can’t find a satisfactory replacement tenant who will pay the same amount of rent. If the only acceptable replacement your landlord finds is a tenant who pays less per month than you did, you might be responsible for the difference. Also, you might be liable for your landlord’s reasonable costs of re-renting the unit, such as advertising costs. Your landlord will probably start collecting by using your security deposit; if the deposit is insufficient, the landlord can sue you for the remaining amounts due. Exceptions: