I'll keep this short and simple. Tenant signed a lease starting in
November and wants to break their lease on February 15th because they've
purchased a house.
I do not have any lease break clause or lease break fees explicitly written in my agreement.
The standard legal procedure, as far as I understand in NC is the
landlord must make reasonable effort to re-rent the property (which I
will), and any vacant time till new tenants are found must be paid by
previous tenants.
I've told them exactly this, but they do not want to follow the standard procedure and instead pay me to "break" away.
I told them, I've tried renting before during February, March and
have found little to no leads because my community usually caters to
families with kids in school etc.
I want to just follow the standard legal procedure, but they are not
interested in that and want to pay me March's rent and leave. In that
case, I told them to pay till May as that was the only time I was able
to get applications.
Anyone have any insight here? Should I be worried that they might trash the house? What legal actions are recommended here?
I do not use a property management service to advertise and have
always used Zillow to advertise, previous references, housing records,
credit checks etc
