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How to get out of a lease agreement-Renting a House
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:22 am
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:22 am
Good Morning O-T Lawyers
I am currently living in a rent house in a neighborhood in New Orleans and I'm trying to find a way to get out of the contract. I have explored many options but haven't pulled the trigger yet. Here's the option that I think will help me out the most if at all.
I moved into this house in August of 2018 and signed a year lease agreement. Come September 1st 2018 I come home to a huge excavation in my front yard and had no prior knowledge of this. I was never informed that half of my yard would be swallowed up to road construction. To this day there is still an open hole and it is expanding slowly inching closer to my house. The angle I want to play is that it is a hazard to my health and it was never communicated to me by neither the landlord nor the city parish. Is this grounds for termination of this binding contract and why?
I am currently living in a rent house in a neighborhood in New Orleans and I'm trying to find a way to get out of the contract. I have explored many options but haven't pulled the trigger yet. Here's the option that I think will help me out the most if at all.
I moved into this house in August of 2018 and signed a year lease agreement. Come September 1st 2018 I come home to a huge excavation in my front yard and had no prior knowledge of this. I was never informed that half of my yard would be swallowed up to road construction. To this day there is still an open hole and it is expanding slowly inching closer to my house. The angle I want to play is that it is a hazard to my health and it was never communicated to me by neither the landlord nor the city parish. Is this grounds for termination of this binding contract and why?
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Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:23 am to BarryMcCokner
fire
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:24 am to BarryMcCokner
quote:
Is this grounds for termination of this binding contract and why?
Read your lease. No one here can give you any advice without knowing what the lease says.
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Come September 1st 2018 I come home to a huge excavation in my front yard and had no prior knowledge of this. I was never informed that half of my yard would be swallowed up to road construction.
Btw, it ain't your yard.
This post was edited on 2/8/19 at 10:27 am
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:24 am to BarryMcCokner
A lot of times if you commit a felony like murder, they will nullify the lease...
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:24 am to BarryMcCokner
Do you really want to move because of that or are you just wanting to use that as a pretense for another reason you want to move? I'm not being glib, it might actually matter as to the approach you should take.
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:25 am to BarryMcCokner
Go get you one of those mold detection kits from Home Depot and do what it says. Send it off and when you get mold growth report, forward it to the landlord and ask to be released from lease since you are allergic and it has affected your health.
Profit
Profit
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:26 am to BarryMcCokner
Is the front yard issue really why you want to leave, or is there another reason?
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:26 am to BarryMcCokner
Claim racism
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:26 am to BarryMcCokner
quote:
The angle I want to play is that it is a hazard to my health
step in it and break an ankle. this will prove your point
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:27 am to BarryMcCokner
You could die.
That would do it.
That would do it.
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:27 am to BarryMcCokner
1) read your lease, most have a buyout clause that allows you to terminate early for a fee
2) this is a stupid reason to break a lease early
2) this is a stupid reason to break a lease early
This post was edited on 2/8/19 at 10:28 am
Posted on 2/8/19 at 10:28 am to BarryMcCokner
So you waited 5 months to bring up this “hazard to your health?” Everyone involved will smell that bullshite a million miles away. I smell it through my damn screen. 
Posted on 2/8/19 at 11:59 am to BarryMcCokner
Just move out and don’t pay any more rent baw
Posted on 2/8/19 at 12:40 pm to BarryMcCokner
Just break the lease and walk away. There is nothing the landlord can do other than keep your deposit.
Landlord tenant law heavily favors the tenant.
Landlord tenant law heavily favors the tenant.
Posted on 2/8/19 at 12:43 pm to LuckyTiger
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Just break the lease and walk away. There is nothing the landlord can do other than keep your deposit.
Landlord tenant law heavily favors the tenant.
This is the worst advice I've seen in this thread.
The best advice is this: consult a lawyer that you pay instead of what you're getting here.
Posted on 2/8/19 at 12:43 pm to LuckyTiger
Can charge through the end of the lease if there is no buyout or if they don’t fulfill all conditions of the buyout.
At least, with any lease I’ve ever been involved with
At least, with any lease I’ve ever been involved with
Posted on 2/8/19 at 12:46 pm to LuckyTiger
quote:
There is nothing the landlord can do other than keep your deposit.
Seems like this is why people shouldn't ask for advice about real problems on college message boards.
Posted on 2/8/19 at 12:48 pm to BarryMcCokner
quote:
I was never informed that half of my yard would be swallowed up to road construction.
And just how is the landlord liable for a city project? Where did they breach a duty to you? Also, I doubt there is a duty to inform a prospective tenant of pending city construction.
Posted on 2/8/19 at 12:48 pm to TH03
Nothing you said was any help
Posted on 2/8/19 at 12:49 pm to Aspercel
quote:
Can charge through the end of the lease if there is no buyout or if they don’t fulfill all conditions of the buyout.
At least, with any lease I’ve ever been involved with
He could, but he'll probably just rent it to some hipster at double the rent.
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