Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Florida
What constitutes abandonment in a lease? If you give a 30 or 60 day notice is it considered abandonment? We have 5 months left on a 2 year lease and we cannot afford to stay in the house anymore and rather than have an eviction on our record we would like to move.
2 Answers from Attorneys
Talk to your landlord. See if you can work out a deal in order to move out. That gives your landlord some time to find a new tenant. Maybe if you can stay a month or two until he gets someone new to move in, he will allow you to break the lease without any significant penalty.
Your lease probably states what constitutes abandonment. If he allows you to break the lease for no/low fee, try to get a signed writing that confirms this. A helpful resource on FL landlord-tenant law is: http://www.800helpfla.com/landlord_text.html
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