Tenants want to end the lease early

[Destry Dylan Thomas Sholder]

I recently received the following text from my tenant:

"Hey I was wondering if there's any way you'd be open to ending our lease early in hopes of finding a new tenant. My wife and I are divorcing and I haven't even been able to live there for the past four or five months, but I didn't want to put her in a bad situation paying for the rent all on her own. Now that she said she would have somewhere else to stay I figured I should throw the idea out there to you."

How would you go about this situation?

[Ned J.]

Let them go.... with the stipulation that you can start advertising and showing the unit ASAP- they make sure the unit is in good condition and kept clean during the process.

When people need/want to leave, they will..... the lease wont stop them. Rather than make it some battle you will likely not "win", make it amicable, smooth and easy with a minimum of stress and $$ lost on an eviction or trying to collect $$ you will never see. Let them leave smoothly and get it rented again and move on