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Korben_14
Jun 23, 2008, 08:58 PM
Ok, here's the deal. A section of a lease for an apartment complex initialed by me. They are still telling me that I have to pay the rent on it (I don't want to get into the apartment now) although the lease wasn't fully completed and they even wrote on it that it wasn't complete. I'm from Texas if that matters.

Lowtax4eva
Jun 23, 2008, 09:00 PM
Can you explain a bit more, what exactly is wrong with the lease? And is it the apartment owners that don't want you to move in or you want to get out of the lease?

Korben_14
Jun 24, 2008, 05:30 AM
All that is wrong with the lease is that in one of the sections for it, initials are missing. And I'm trying to get out of the lease, they're saying I can't.

Don't know. They sent me the lease saying it wasn't complete because I didn't initial a section on it yet they say I'm still responsible for it. :confused:

froggy7
Jun 24, 2008, 07:18 AM
If you in fact signed the lease, then the missing initials are considered generally an oversight. Especially if they are on a page where you initialed other things. The assumption is that you read that part when you signed the lease, and therefore agreed to it, or else you would have raised an objection and not signed the rest of the lease.

Look at it this way... if you wanted to stay in the apartment, would you consider not signing that section to be grounds for the landlord to not let you move in? If not, then it's not grounds for you to get out, either.