Re: Can a tenant break a lease after fire? - Landlord Forum thread 191587

Re: Can a tenant break a lease after fire? by Paul (IL) on November 15, 2009 @09:37

This is where it gets tricky. If the tenants needed to stay elsewhere during the "repair" period, it is possible they would need to sign a lease elsewhere. The LL cannot enforce a lease under such conditions and no judge in the world would enforce it either. There are a lot of conditions regarding this question.

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Re: Can a tenant break a lease after fire? by OK-LL on November 15, 2009 @11:54	[ Reply ]

Because T has the obligation to return to the unit, he would be obliged to seek a short term rental, M2M or extended-stay motel. There are plenty of alternative accomodations in situations such as this. Only the unavailability of such accomodations would convince a judge that T had to sign a lease elsewhere.

Re: Can a tenant break a lease after fire? by Paul (IL) on November 15, 2009 @16:56	[ Reply ]

The tenant may not necessarily have an obligation to return to the unit due to condition. If the condition of the unit makes it uninhabital for X amount of time, it is reasonable for a tenant to find another dwelling in which to reside. A week or two is one thing, but the original post spoke of fire. Again, condition and circumstance would be deemed by any reasonable judge.