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pacath
Oct 25, 2010, 06:19 PM
My current lease ends on 12/2010. However, I signed an additional lease that runs from 1/2011 to 6/2011. I am relocating and want to give notice on the second portion of the lease that was originally signed on 1/2010 (1 year before the actual start date).

ScottGem
Oct 25, 2010, 06:30 PM
Sorry if you signed a lease extension or renewal you are bound to it. And Florida is the worst state to try and break a lease since the landlord does not have to try and find someone else.

You have three choices:
1) negotiate a buyout
2) sublet
3) find a replacement tenant

Fr_Chuck
Oct 25, 2010, 07:11 PM
Agreed, Florida is the worst state for this to have happened in.
I would start by going to see the landlord and trying to work out an agreement that you can live with.

pacath
Oct 26, 2010, 04:59 PM
Thanks for the info...