Q: Early-terminated lease, paid 3+ months rent and non-ending. How can I push the landlord to re-rent it or reduce my loss?
I had lease with apartment landlord that auto renews 12-months after each term ending. After stay there 2 years 3 month, I early-terminated lease and moved out due to changing employer and relocation out of Delaware. The lease has about 9 months to go before expire. Now the landlord is requesting me to pay rent till the end, or he till finds new tenant which seems not able to find one in the past 3 months.
Now I have been paying rent for past 3 months since I moved out, but there still no hope of getting the apt re-rented. The rent is near $1000 per month.
I suspect the landlord is deliberately leaving the apt vacant and preventing it be re-rented.
Is there anything I can do to reduce my loss?
It feels super sad to pay the "bad" landlord so much while he take advantage of this situation.
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