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Old 08-03-2009, 12:01 PM
 
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Old 08-03-2009, 12:58 PM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix, AZ USA
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Well, you CAN break a lease, just like any other contract. It's just that there are consequences. At a minimum, the security deposit would be lost. Harder-nosed landlords could make it more difficult than that. And, you can't exactly depend on a landlord whose lease you have broken to give a good reference to the next landlord.
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Old 01-04-2010, 06:48 PM
 
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As a landlord whose tenant just moved out after 2 months (skipping out on 10 months rent), please talk to your landlord. Be honest. Most people are reasonable and will try to work with you. We would have liked that oppportunity. Now we have to decide whether to pursue legal action. All of this might have been settled if our tenant had communicated with us. We do not consider ourselves "hard-nosed" landlords, as another user put it. Landlord have mortgages, utilities, and taxes to pay (in addition to another commission to pay a real estate agent). Many of us are upside-down on our mortgages and are already making up shortages every month.
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Old 01-04-2010, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Rockvale, Tennessee
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As a landlord whose tenant just moved out after 2 months (skipping out on 10 months rent), please talk to your landlord. Be honest. Most people are reasonable and will try to work with you. We would have liked that oppportunity. Now we have to decide whether to pursue legal action. All of this might have been settled if our tenant had communicated with us. We do not consider ourselves "hard-nosed" landlords, as another user put it. Landlord have mortgages, utilities, and taxes to pay (in addition to another commission to pay a real estate agent). Many of us are upside-down on our mortgages and are already making up shortages every month.
Just and FYI this is an old old post. i think he's long gone!! but good advice.. were's your rental place at?
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Old 01-06-2010, 08:17 PM
 
Location: Lake Havasu City, AZ
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Just and FYI this is an old old post. i think he's long gone!! but good advice.. were's your rental place at?
Lol, yea, I really hope he's not still in that same lease
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Old 01-07-2010, 01:08 AM
 
Location: Rockvale, Tennessee
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LMAO yeah if he is, thats one heck of a lease ... hey i was just letting the other person know it was an old one LMAO!! we get alot of these eh?
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Old 11-27-2010, 09:58 AM
 
Location: Tempe, AZ
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Although this post is fairly old, I replied because virtually none of the replies contained any good or correct advice. The first thing to do is NOT disclose to the landlord your intent but to begin a break lease program. Alerting them actually hurts your position if you do have to go to court for monetary claims made by the landlord. You can NOT break a lease for a job transfer. You may NEED to break a lease because of a job in another city but it is not a legal remedy. The only reasons you may break a lease legally in Arizona is non-compliance by the landlord for health and safety violations, non-registration with the county tax assessors office and circumstantial conditions such as fire, flood and domestic violence, etc. Moderator cut: advertising

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Old 11-27-2010, 10:05 AM
 
Location: Tempe, AZ
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Default Security Deposit is NOT at risk when you legally break a lease

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Well, you CAN break a lease, just like any other contract. It's just that there are consequences. At a minimum, the security deposit would be lost. Harder-nosed landlords could make it more difficult than that. And, you can't exactly depend on a landlord whose lease you have broken to give a good reference to the next landlord.
Not quite. Arizona law is very specific and legally breaking a lease does NOT jeopardize your security deposit. In fact, it is specifically stated in the Arizona Landlord Tenant Act that it MUST be returned in a legal rental lease termination. If it is not you can file and injunction and receive an amount twice that of amount. So really a hard nosed landlord is irrelevant when it comes to the law. The more stubborn they are, the more they tend to break the law and end up paying for it in the long run.
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Old 11-29-2010, 07:24 PM
 
Location: Prescott Valley, AZ
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Although this post is fairly old, I replied because virtually none of the replies contained any good or correct advice. The first thing to do is NOT disclose to the landlord your intent but to begin a break lease program. Alerting them actually hurts your position if you do have to go to court for monetary claims made by the landlord. You can NOT break a lease for a job transfer. You may NEED to break a lease because of a job in another city but it is not a legal remedy. The only reasons you may break a lease legally in Arizona is non-compliance by the landlord for health and safety violations, non-registration with the county tax assessors office and circumstantial conditions such as fire, flood and domestic violence, etc. Moderator cut: advertising
Are you suggesting that the tenants lie about their reasoning in order to break the contract for a spurious reason?

I would rather see the tenant act honestly and fairly. This is not about a poor tenant being taken advantage of by a rich landlord. This is about two parties coming together to make a legal contract. Each party is required to honestly uphold their part of the contract in a faithful manner. If the landlord is not fullfilling his or her part of the contract, then by all means, take actions to correct the fault. However, do not make false claims, because you changed your mind.

Hopefully honesty and integrity still mean something in this world.
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Old 11-29-2010, 09:09 PM
 
Location: Southern Arizona
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Although this post is fairly old, I replied because virtually none of the replies contained any good or correct advice. The first thing to do is NOT disclose to the landlord your intent but to begin a break lease program. Alerting them actually hurts your position if you do have to go to court for monetary claims made by the landlord. You can NOT break a lease for a job transfer. You may NEED to break a lease because of a job in another city but it is not a legal remedy. The only reasons you may break a lease legally in Arizona is non-compliance by the landlord for health and safety violations, non-registration with the county tax assessors office and circumstantial conditions such as fire, flood and domestic violence, etc. Moderator cut: advertising
Good Grief, ATA . . . are you forgetting KARMA?

As Brian has already addressed . . . whatever happened to HONESTY and INTEGRITY?
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