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    Default Can You Break a Lease if the Landlord Changes His Mind About Extending Tenancy

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

    We took over a friend's remaining lease ( for June 1-end of August) and was told by the landlords we would be able to sign a year lease once the remaining one ended. After only 17 days of moving in they told us we would need to move out by September. We have two small children and one on the way, had we not been told we could sign a year lease we would not have moved from our apartment that we had been living at for 2+ plus years. We now at the end of June found a new home we plan to move into come July 1 but the landlords of the current home are telling us we need to finish paying the remainder of the lease plus have no intent of returning our deposit if we move out prior to the lease ending. Are we responsible for the remainder of the lease or are the original tenants responsible and are they allowed to keep our deposit strictly for this reason?

    The original leasers are fighting the fact that the lease is invalid due to the landlords simply drawing a line through their names and writing ours in side space on the paper and giving us a copy of that lease that still has there names, phone numbers, and Social Security Numbers. Does this make the lease invalid?

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    Default Re: Can You Break a Lease if the Landlord Changes His Mind About Extending Tenancy

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    The original leasers are fighting the fact that the lease is invalid due to the landlords simply drawing a line through their names and writing ours in side space on the paper and giving us a copy of that lease that still has there names, phone numbers, and Social Security Numbers. Does this make the lease invalid?
    I cannot see the document from where I'm sitting, and thus am not in a position to comment on the significance of the document or changes. You also haven't told us what "The original leasers are fighting", or why they're fighting whatever it is that they're fighting.

    In terms of you, if you're telling us that the landlord used a copy of the original lease, striking out the original tenants' names and adding yours, and you signed that document committing yourself to remain in tenancy for the remainder of the lease, then that's what you did. But you're making us guess.

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