Subletting & Vacancy Policy

[Adrian Cavallini]

Hello,

I am a student in San Antonio, Texas currently leasing a "student living" apartment room. I made the mistake of signing a lease several months in advance to commit for the next year. I have researched and seen that the only way to get out of a lease is through the normal ways of deployment, harass, unsafe living conditions, etc., or they have to make the best effort to release. Since that lease doesn't start for another several months, I figured it would be no big deal for them to find another person: wrong. According to the Property Manager, their "vacancy policy" which she explicitly told me was not written down anywhere (I read through lease and found no record of this 'policy'), is that they don't fill people who want to cancel their lease until they have filled all vacancies. This doesn't sound like it should be able to fly. 

I am currently looking for people to sublet through roomster and livesomewhere. 

Any advice as to what I should do, specifically involving that 'policy'? Or other advice.