I am considering terminating my apartment lease 6 months into my a year lease. The lease says that I am responsible for rent and damage in case of early termination. My landload failed to provide habitable environment when the air conditioning stopped working in the certain units of the whole building in the middle of the summer. (They took about 2 weeks to fix the problem.) Isn't this considered as bleaching the contract on the landload side, therefore am I responsible for the penalty fees in this case?
Be honest and be true to yourself.
Talk to your landlord and tell him about your intention of ending the lease prematurely. You can tell him that you were uncomfortable because he failed to provide proper air conditioning during the hot months. Hopefully he won't hold you responsible for the last 6 months. He probably will let you pay the 7th month lease and let you go.
Good luck with that.
awwww.... Thank you very much for your input!
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Sounds like you both would breach the lease if you were to vacate early. If you feel the landlord failed to provide habitable premises you should have left then. Not later on after the fact. That would be like saying it is ok that you had to suffer without a/c. If that is the only thing the landlord failed to provide you might lose this fight as he did repair it it a fairly reasonable time. Summer is the busiest time for repair techs and cannot always schedule service on demand. Sometimes it takes an appointment to schedule a/c repair that means being put on a waiting list. Sorry but I don't think that is sufficient reason to break lease. Good luck.
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