I'm in a situation where I verbally stated to my landlord that I would be signing a new lease and staying in my apartment when my lease expires this August. However, now I am likely taking a job out of state which would begin in September. They sent me an amendment to my current lease, stating that it is being extended for one year, but I have yet to sign this (as they told me it just needs to be to them before my current lease expires) and have only verbally said I'm staying. Is this considered breaking a lease even if I haven't signed anything yet? I would be able to stay the full duration of my current lease until August and therefore would not break that lease. I just have to give at least 30 days notice that I am no longer going to be able to stay, right? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Editor's Response
I have not read the lease agreement and did not hear the conversations you had with the landlord, so I can only offer this guess about your best course of action. Read the lease, make sure it is not self-extending (requiring you to take some action to avoid automatic extension). ASAP, give the landlord the type of notice required by the lease that you are not intending to renew. I cannot tell you how the landlord will react or whether he/she will try to hold you to the terms of your oral agreement, but if you have to move, then you have to move. Even if a housing court agrees with the landlord that a new, oral, lease agreement was formed (HIGHLY unlikely), the landlord still has an obligation to make good faith efforts to find a replacement tenant. Good luck.