Breaking an unsigned lease
I live in Ft Lauderdale Fl and I am 7 months into a leasing contract. Unfortunately, I want to break my lease now for more than one reasons. My wife is allergic to something either in the apartment or on the complex; her throat gets irritated to often and she has to buy allergy medications all the time. She eventually went to the doctor once for it. We want to make use of an opportunity that came up for us to move to move elsewhere. However, on medical grounds I think we stand little chance of breaking the lease because they included a medical disclaimer clause within it.
We verbally mentioned it to our property manager who bluntly told us that if we break the lease it is going to damage my wife's credit, especially since it s a group of lawyers who own the complex. She also offered to move us to another apartment which we refused, since we don't know the source of the allergic reaction on the property. I get the feeling she is just trying to scare us because the place is overpriced.
Initially, when we just moved in last October, we went through hell just to get a copy of the lease from our leasing office. Now I am reading through the lease, I realized that they did not sign it. Does an unsigned lease on the landlords part give me any grounds to break the lease with sufficient notice, say 30 or 60 days? The deposit doesn't matter much, I just want to find the best and most quick way out of this. Can anyone make any suggestion otherwise as to how to approach this?