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enthused · 04-03-2007, 10:42 PM

I'm currently going to school in Victoria, and I'm living in a basement suite with two friends. We signed a year lease back in August, but didn't move in until September. Two of us are from Calgary, and one the other is from Vancouver, and we all plan to go home once we finish up our exams at the end of April. Unfortunately, we still have posession of our place from May until the end of July... even though we wont be living there.

Our landlords (who live above us) agreed that we could sublet the place for those final months, so long as they approve the people that we find. At first that seemed fine to us, but now that we've actually started advertising the place, no one seems to be too interested in it. Its not a terrible place, but its not very convenient to the school, and most students don't want to sign a lease where they would have to pay for the summer months.

We've started to do a bit of research on terminating the lease, but I was wondering if anyone here has any info or advice on how to go about doing so, or whether we even can. Any help would be much appeciated, I'm starting to stress about getting rid of this place, because none of us can afford to pay for it if we're not living in it!

Also... I would like to add that we've had a lot of trouble with the landlords... and their lack of dealing with problems we've had with the place. We had rats for several months, no handles or locks on our back doors, little to no heat, etc. Even after complaints, it took them a long time to deal with those situations, if they even did at all (we still have no handles or locks, and no heat).

Anyways... long story short, tell me about breaking a lease! Thank you!

04-03-2007, 10:42 PM	#1
enthused Powerplay Quarterback Join Date: Feb 2007 Exp:	Breaking a lease I'm currently going to school in Victoria, and I'm living in a basement suite with two friends. We signed a year lease back in August, but didn't move in until September. Two of us are from Calgary, and one the other is from Vancouver, and we all plan to go home once we finish up our exams at the end of April. Unfortunately, we still have posession of our place from May until the end of July... even though we wont be living there. Our landlords (who live above us) agreed that we could sublet the place for those final months, so long as they approve the people that we find. At first that seemed fine to us, but now that we've actually started advertising the place, no one seems to be too interested in it. Its not a terrible place, but its not very convenient to the school, and most students don't want to sign a lease where they would have to pay for the summer months. We've started to do a bit of research on terminating the lease, but I was wondering if anyone here has any info or advice on how to go about doing so, or whether we even can. Any help would be much appeciated, I'm starting to stress about getting rid of this place, because none of us can afford to pay for it if we're not living in it! Also... I would like to add that we've had a lot of trouble with the landlords... and their lack of dealing with problems we've had with the place. We had rats for several months, no handles or locks on our back doors, little to no heat, etc. Even after complaints, it took them a long time to deal with those situations, if they even did at all (we still have no handles or locks, and no heat). Anyways... long story short, tell me about breaking a lease! Thank you!