Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Re: break apartment lease because leaving the country

Your leaving the country is not a basis for terminating a lease early. Sorry. However, if you are leaving the country and never plan to come back, then what do you care if the landlord gets a judgment against you. I doubt sincerely (unless your rent is astronomical) that the landlord will pursue collections of this judgment in another country - cost prohibitive. You can always ask your landlord to voluntarily terminate the agreement early - offer him some sort of compensation to do so, or find him a replacement tenant so he's not out any money because of your early termination.

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