Break verbal sublet agreement due to bedbugs
I am subletting a room in an apartment building this for the summer, however, at the start of July, bedbugs appeared in the apartment. The exterminator has been by 3 times, I have thoroughly washed and cleaned all my stuff each of the three times, and I am still being bitten. I would like to move out and rent a room for the last month of summer from someone else, however, the person I am renting the room from said that I would have to still pay rent at both places, because I said I would take the room for the entire summer. Do I have legal grounds for breaking my verbal agreement, because the bugs won't go away?
I moved in at the beginning of June. A roommate of the girl who is renting me her room who is still living in the apartment had a friend who had bedbugs that brought a blanket on the fourth of July. I am almost certain that she brought the bugs with her. Since the 6th of July, I have been getting bites all over my body, and I just can't take it anymore! The apartment is really old, I and there is just so many places for the bugs to hide, that the exterminator can't get rid of them all.
Thank-you for your advice!
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