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    pacath Posts: 2, Reputation: 1
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    Oct 25, 2010, 06:19 PM
    Can I break my lease in Florida before it starts.
    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).
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    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
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    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.
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    Oct 26, 2010, 04:59 PM
    Thanks for the info...

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