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    Post Legal Recourse for Landlord Backing Out of Lease to Tenant After Verbal Agreement

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Delaware

    I been having advanced talks about renting my home in Delaware to a couple starting July 1. I have given them a VERBAL agreement that I would rent them the house for the 3 year lease they wanted. I also have put together a lease and we went several rounds coming up to an agreement via EMAIL.

    Neither party has signed the lease but just agreed to it over email and verbally. These potential tenants are not very qualified and we just got someone else interested who is qualified to pay and has a good track record.

    Is there any legal recourse given that its June 4th if I tell them I am no longer going to rent to them?

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    Default Re: Legal Recourse for Landlord Backing Out of Lease to Tenant After Verbal Agreement

    It may depend on the communications on the whole. A signature on a contract is not required for a contract to be valid. You should contact the interested party and tell them the apt. is no longer available and see how they respond.

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    Default Re: Legal Recourse for Landlord Backing Out of Lease to Tenant After Verbal Agreement

    You haven't indicated whether you actually reached an agreement or if you're still negotiating terms for the lease. If it's the latter, you don't have an agreement. If it's the former, depending upon the full facts you may be bound to the lease you accepted at the conclusion of negotiations. There may be a "statute of frauds" issue for a lease of this duration, as presumably the final version of the lease was not physically signed; that's an avenue you may want to explore if in fact you negotiated and accepted a final version of the lease.

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