thread: Rent/lease breaking help

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  1. #1
    2013 BellyBelly RAK Recipient.

    May 2007
    Brisbane
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    I think technically if you break a lease they can ask you to pay the rent until they find someone else to occupy the house.

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Jan 2007
    where cosmopolitans and margaritas flow all night
    2,794

    I think technically if you break a lease they can ask you to pay the rent until they find someone else to occupy the house.
    I know that this is the rule in SA. We just broke our lease 2 months early. Didn't have to give a specific notice period, just had to tell the RE what date we wanted to to the exit inspection and hand back the keys so they knew from what date they could get a new person in. But we have to pay rent until the new person signs a lease (today) and pay advertising and a portion of the re-letting fees. We should get the final calculations of what we owe in advertising & re-letting fees and any outstanding rent and what our bond return will be in the next few days.

    You'll need to read the residential tenancies act for the state your parents live.