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    Default What are Legitimate Reasons to Break Lease

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

    Job loss?
    Job transfer?

    What sort of unforeseen, common occurrences are legitimate reasons to terminate a lease (aside from extraordinary circumstances like terminal illness, etc.)?

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    Default Re: Legitimate Reasons to Break Lease

    What makes you think that anything you mentioned gets you out of the contract you have with a landlord?

    You get out of a lease when the lease expires or the landlord breaches the lease or violates the law. And maybe not even then.

    Of course when that terminal illness terminates (YOU DIE) you are out of the lease.

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    Default Re: What are Legitimate Reasons to Break Lease

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

    Job loss?
    Job transfer?

    What sort of unforeseen, common occurrences are legitimate reasons to terminate a lease (aside from extraordinary circumstances like terminal illness, etc.)?
    You can "break" a lease any time you want for any reason you want, but not without moderate to severe financial consequences.

    In fact, even when you die, your estate may owe the landlord something.

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    Default Re: What are Legitimate Reasons to Break Lease

    Define "legitimate."

    I'm not sure what you mean by "break," but breaching a lease has consequences, and whether the reason(s) for breaching a lease are "legitimate" or not isn't a legally relevant inquiry. If you're asking whether certain circumstances will allow for the early termination of a lease without consequences, the answer is yes. However, unless the lease says otherwise, none of things mentioned in your post fit that description.

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