Re: Can a tenant break a lease after fire? - Landlord Forum thread 191507

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

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.

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