[haley6aj]

Hi. I have signed a year contract lease with an apartment complex. When I first signed the lease, I asked the agent if I wanted to get out the lease sooner is there a sublease or assignment that I can do. She said yes. So a few months later after I moved in I asked the agent again, and she said yes, she even left a message on my phone that she found someone to helo take over my lease. AT this times it was spring break and I wasn't sure about the exact date to move out yet. In April when I pay for April's rent. That agent was no longer working there and new agent told me I cannot do any of that and should refer to my lease contract. If I was to break it early. I have to pay a sublet fee, last month fee and concession fee about (1200). I then obtain a copy a day later of my lease. Every page on my contract was not initial or signed by any agent at all. Is there grounds where I can void this contract? I still have the voice message the other agent left me, and I still have records of craiglist posting and numbers of potential prostects to take over my lease?

[AK lawyer]

... Every page on my contract was not initial or signed by any agent at all. ...

But the contract was signed by the agent, right? If so, I don't think you can get out of the contract on those grounds. However if you can prove that the agent verbally agreed to let you out early, you may have a case.

[ScottGem]

Each page does not have to be initialed if signed by you and the agent. Only changes have to be initialed. You should have read the contract to see if it conflicts with what the agent told you and had changes made.

[haley6aj]

Thank you so much for your two quick responses. The agent never sign the contract lease, and I still have the message recording of the agent who left me the message in regards to help me transfer over my lease. But that same agent no longer works there. How or should I bring this case on?

[ScottGem]

The question is whether you signed the lease. It may not have been necessary for the agent to sign it. Was it signed by the landlord or mgmt co? I really don't think you have much of a leg to stand on here. If the leases specifies what the new agent said, then you are bound by it, regardless of verbal (even taped) promises.

[Fr_Chuck]

Verbal agreements do not take the place of the written lease, any agreement to get out of the lease that is not in the lease would have to be in writing.

The other agent may have done it, but did not have to, so after they left ( perhaps for doing that) their agreement ended with them.