All Forum Posts by: Misa Matic

@Chad HaleThe complex has aprox 20 buildings with 8 apts in each building,Im not sure how vacant it is. 

Yes i tried to advertise it with incentives, offering up to a month free so far.

thank you for the advice @Alyssa Dyer and @Kelsey Bailey

Thank you Gail, John Adam, Stephen, Bjorn, for all your quick input and advice! It sounds very assuring so far.

Hello Everyone!

My name is Misha, I'm living in sunny Sunnyvale California, with my wife. I'm hoping to get some advice on what are options are in breaking our lease.

We have been living here since September 2020, and we signed a lease agreement with an apartment complex for the duration of 13 months. We moved here for a job opportunity my wife recieved, she signed job contract for a year. Meanwhile we were fortunate enough to get pregnant since we moved here. After we found out about the pregnancy and the due date, we knew she wont be extending her job contract, and we agreed that she will be giving birth in a birthing center in Washington, so we will be ending the rental sgreement three months early.

I let my Apartment management company know in January (5 months before our departure), that we will be leaving earlier and the reasons.

They gave us 2 options,
a) to keep paying the lease until they or we find a tenant
b) to pay 2 months of rent in advance (over 5k) after we leave to be able to end the contract sooner

I guess we accepted the cheaper option, or at least we hope it is cheaper, a) so far no luck with renting out the apartment, but we still have a 2 months to go.

My question is, as I would much rather have that money for the coming months after the baby is born. If we leave, and end up not paying their additional requests for ending the lease agreement, what is the most likely outcome than can happen? and any other advice?


Thank you for your time and knowledge.