Tenant Breaking Lease

[Grace Marie Weger]

Last year I bought my first investment property and use the rental forms from Brandon Turners book "the book on rental property investing". I read through them and edited to fit my state and situation, but I overlooked that there is nothing said about breaking the lease.

I believe in Oregon the tenant is responsible for up to the full amount of rent during the signed lease period if they decide to leave early- but the landlord is required to look for a new renter and once found, the old tenant isn't responsible for paying anymore. However, without this defined in the lease I want to check that my understanding is correct.

Any advice on how to proceed?

[Dwayne Poster]

Quote from @Grace Marie Weger:

Last year I bought my first investment property and use the rental forms from Brandon Turners book "the book on rental property investing". I read through them and edited to fit my state and situation, but I overlooked that there is nothing said about breaking the lease.

I believe in Oregon the tenant is responsible for up to the full amount of rent during the signed lease period if they decide to leave early- but the landlord is required to look for a new renter and once found, the old tenant isn't responsible for paying anymore. However, without this defined in the lease I want to check that my understanding is correct.

Any advice on how to proceed?

 State laws prevail, regardless of what an agreement says or doesn’t say.