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    Default Roommate Won't Let Me Break Lease, Can't Find a Replacement

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

    I signed a lease in August 2015 with what seemed like a nice girl. I paid the full deposit, including the pet deposit, furnished the whole apartment, and kept the place clean. Since, she has become a bad roommate, and I have already moved out. I cannot afford to keep paying my rent and have made many attempts to find a replacement with no success. She will not let me out of the lease without a replacement. She has no reason to find a new roommate because she is basically living in a 2 br apartment by herself right now and has no obligations to keep it clean since no one lives with her. I have no legal grounds to break the lease with her, so what are my options in getting out of this lease in the cheapest way possible? Worst case, i pay out the remaining 7 months, but if there's any way to avoid this I'd like to do that.

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    Default Re: Roommate Won't Let Me Break Lease, Can't Find a Replacement

    Have you talked to the landlord? What is the problem with finding a replacement, is it that you can't find one or that she doesn't like them?

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    Default Re: Roommate Won't Let Me Break Lease, Can't Find a Replacement

    Yes but my roommate gave him a sob story about how she supposedly can't afford it if I leave before I could talk to him so now he won't let me off without a replacement, but when I go to show the place to someone, my former roommate trashes it and she won't approve anyone.

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    Default Re: Roommate Won't Let Me Break Lease, Can't Find a Replacement

    So you are upset because she shows her true self when prospective replacements show up? I would think that's better than dumping them blindly into your situation.


    Anything you do short of paying out the lease risks your rental and credit history. You have an arguable point of demanding she find a replacement to mitigate her damages but unless she is willing to do so, your only real option to force it is to stop paying your share of rent. If she gets evicted, since you are on the same lease, so do you.

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