What to do when a tenant wants to break lease

[Harrison Liggett]

I’ve dealt with these in the past and they have mostly been case-by-case but wanted to know what you all might do.

We have a tenant who wants to leave (because of a new job out of town) a whole 9 months before his lease is up. It’s not worth the money trying to go to court and get all of that back but that was a hard place to lease and we even think the sec deposit will have to be used on cleaning and damages from them just being there those few months.

Do we talk big and ask for two months “or else”? (By the way, they won’t pay Feb rent because they will be out by this weekend but we all know how that goes)