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    Default Signed Lease, Haven't Paid Security Deposit, Want to Back Out of Lease

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

    Myself and two others were planning on moving into an apartment with three other guys already living there. Myself and the two others moving in signed the lease but the security deposit has not been paid. We went to check on the apartment and there was one less room than what we were told by the other three already living there. Myself and the two others moving in are not happy about having to share a room. We were wondering if it is possible for us three to back out of the lease?

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    Default Re: Signed Lease, Haven't Paid Security Deposit, Want to Back Out of Lease

    How many rooms are described on the lease?

    Why did you trust the current tenants, rather than asking the landlord how many rooms were in the rental unit?

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    Default Re: Signed Lease, Haven't Paid Security Deposit, Want to Back Out of Lease

    There were no rooms described on the lease. We are/were friends with the people we would be living with so we trusted them. We had no reason to doubt them at the time.

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    Default Re: Signed Lease, Haven't Paid Security Deposit, Want to Back Out of Lease

    Look; typically when you sign a lease, you accept the rental unit "as is".

    It's your fault you folks didn't check out the "as is" before agreeing to a legal contract that you were accepting this rental unit.

    Gail

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    Default Re: Signed Lease, Haven't Paid Security Deposit, Want to Back Out of Lease

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    There were no rooms described on the lease. We are/were friends with the people we would be living with so we trusted them. We had no reason to doubt them at the time.
    You were renting from the landlord, not "the people [you] would be living with." If those people promised you each your own room, how about changing things around so that they have to share?

    You can explore the possibility of finding somebody to take over your obligations under the lease, if that's acceptable to your roomies and the landlord.

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