re: Renting an apartment w/o a lease?

I don't have a lease. Yes, I can be kicked out at anytime, but I can also leave at anytime. For example, my last apartment, there was a fire above us, the sprinklers flooded our apartment. The insurance covered everything, and they cleaned up as much as they could. But it was still moist and humid in the apartment and mold grew. The landlord took two months to even make progress on it, and it still wasn't nice. We had to stay the remainder of our lease because of the terms of the lease.

Without a lease, I just bail on the place out of common sense, or a gentlemen's agreement.