Moving Out Prior to the Expiration Date with a Good Reason
My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Pennsylvania
Hi everyone.
Here is my situation, and i will be as accurate as possible.
I rented a house from a old gentleman who I never met in person before last June. The house was a bit old, and not so well insulated. Our relationship was ok until we actually moved in. We found out that during the hot summer, theres barely any heat upstairs. MOst of the time, the temp upstair is over 80 degrees even with AC on. The landlord had sent out a technician couple times to fixed the problem, but none of the attempts helped. At the end of the summer, he finally decided to put in new furnaces to help with the air flow. HOwever, due to the poor insulation of the house, the temp was still at 75 and up.
My family and I were really upset that we have to endure the high heat during the summer. Therefore, we noticed our landlord that we might move out early at decemeber, because we do not want to endure the same pain as we did ( our lease is one year and should end at may or june of this year). My landlord agreed with what i proposed and admit that it was not livable during the summer orally.
Around January, I texted and called my landlord to let him know that we will be moving out at the end of febuary. And he agreed with it orally.
However, when I went over the rendering list with him today. He was being not so nice with me, first of all he did not return the deposit in full ( he used a pro rate of 9/12 since we only lived there for 9 months). He also mentioned couple times that according to the lease, that my family still owed him 3 months of rent.
So what should I do to avoid the legal fight that he might possibly bring up????
Re: Moving Out Prior to the Expiration Date with a Good Reason
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So what should I do to avoid the legal fight that he might possibly bring up????
Pay him the three months you owe.
Alternatively, tell him to cram it, and wait to see if he sues you for it.
Re: Moving Out Prior to the Expiration Date with a Good Reason
Hard to believe people lived for hundreds of years in the same area, without AC. Pay the 3 months and stop whining. You have no viable grounds to break the lease, except that you are spoiled.