My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Michigan
I am posting a few different questions regarding what to do with a lease when your ex-boyfriend decides to bail on you in the middle of it.
My ex and I signed a lease for a $1250/mo home. The lease is up thru June of 2009. My ex left at the end of November and has made no attempt to help with the money. I can't afford this place on my own. I paid 750 for December rent and 625 for rent in January (so always at least my half).
I don't see the phrase "joint and several" anywhere in the lease, so I'm hoping that means I'm not responsible for the entire amount.
I have also been told that if I give my landlord a 30 day notice that I'm moving out, he can't hold me responsible for rent until he show a concerted effort to find new tenants. I'm trying to just FIND some tenants for him, to take over the lease.
Except I don't really want them to sublet from me -- I want to just wash my hands of the whole thing. I want to negotiate breaking the lease and having the new tenants lease directly from him. He tells me that they have to sublet thru me for the rest of my lease's term and THEN he and they will sign a new lease.
I wonder why he's trying to keep me tied to the house, even after I'm giving him new tenants. It's extra weird because there is a no sublet clause in the lease that goes:
5. Assignment: Subletting. The Tenant covenants not to assign, transfer this lease or hypothecate or m ortgage the same or sublet said premises or any part thereof.
So why is he saying that I have to sublet if the lease says I can't? And if he can be so flexible with the lease, why is he telling me he can't let me break it?

