Re: Can a tenant break a lease after fire? - Landlord Forum thread 191485

Re: Can a tenant break a lease after fire? by Anonymous on November 12, 2009 @22:04

I have read my response again and it just does not look like I said the tenants have to pay rent on the burned out rental during the time it was not occupied. And yes, if you have no sense of fair play or even common sense, I suppose a landlord could try to force the tenants back into the rental or pick their pocket for the balance of the lease. These college girls only signed a 10 month lease. How much of it could be left? They have been forced out to sign another lease somewhere else that will need to be either honored or abandoned. Why would a landlord want to compound their loss? Let them move on. Good grief.

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Huh? by K (FL) on November 12, 2009 @23:48	[ Reply ]

These college girls only signed a 10 month lease. How much of it could be left? 6 or 7 months

Re: Can a tenant break a lease after fire? by Anonymous (FL) on November 13, 2009 @12:30	[ Reply ]

Yeah, probably about 6 months left. It is a college rental therefore usually start in August and if 10 month lease would end June. College students rent early for the next year and by August there virtually aren't any people looking for rental until late spring. Especially since it is a college rental, it woulud be very very hard to find new people to rent during the school year. So, yes landlord can enforce the lease and make tenants pay for the entire lease. Not common sense, its the law. I didn't say that or imply that you said the tenants would have to pay rent on the place while not there. I was just making a point that what you said about landlord having to pay their living expenses during that time are absolutely wrong, yet on the plus side for the tenants they of course aren't liable for rent. Landlord doesn't take a loss in rent AND pay for tenants to live somewhere else. Even if tenants pay rent for the time, lanldord does not pay for tenants to live somewhere else.

Re: Can a tenant break a lease after fire? by Anonymous (FL) on November 13, 2009 @12:33	[ Reply ]

Who says they were forced or even have signed a lease for somewhere else? It doesn't say how long repairs took or for that fact, who was repsonsible for the fire. Tenants could very easily be staying with friends or boyfriends right now. When tenants left due to fire no one mentioned terminating the lease at all, so it should have been tenants expectation that they would move out temporarily.