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    Default Responsibility to Find New Tenants If You Break a Lease

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

    Hi,

    Me and my husband are moving out of our apartment before the end of the lease because I'm pregnant and it s a fifth floor walk up building with out authorization to leave a stroller downstairs.
    We asked the management company if we could move earlier, they responded that we could by sending them a letter stating the date we wanted to vacate the apartmt and that we would be responsible to find a new tenant to take over our lease till its end.
    This discussion happened over the phone.
    We then found lots of person who wanted to apply but the management company told them that it was for a new one year lease and that the rent wouldn't be of 2,200$ but 2,500$.
    We're wondering if as it's not a real "lease take" anymore are we still reponsible to find new tenants?

    Thanks a lot for your help!
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    Default Re: Responsibility to Find New Tenants If You Break a Lease

    You need to figure out with your landlord if they're going to work with you when you find replacement tenants for the balance of your lease term, or if they're going to sabotage your efforts.

    You don't have a valid basis to get out of your lease, but they shouldn't be turning away the reasonable replacements you find merely because they want to hike the rent for the balance of your lease term.

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    Default Re: Responsibility to Find New Tenants If You Break a Lease

    OK thanks for your answer.
    It means that in anyway if we break a lease we have to find a new tenant whatever are the new conditions at which the landlord wants to rerent the apartment...(14% rise of the rent!!!) looks like we're real brokers now

    thanks
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