I am very afraid of them and refuse to live with them.
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Can I break my lease because I have seen mice and I am terrified of them?
I am very afraid of them and refuse to live with them.
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Probably not. You can only break the lease if the place isn't habitable by a normal person's standards. Even then it's a stretch. Just go buy the poison and put it out.
Mice can be a nuisance, but it does not allow you to break your lease.
First and foremost, you need to get some legal advice tailored to your individual situation and lease contract. If you don’t have or can’t afford your own lawyer, get in touch with your local legal aid office and contact tenants’ rights organizations. Attorneys can be expensive, but being sued by your landlord for breaking your lease could be much more costly. If you don’t want to pay the rest of the rent that you’ve committed to shell out by signing the lease, you’d better get some sound advice so you don’t end up paying more than you had to in assorted late fees or other conditions stated in obscure parts of your lease. Tenants’ rights organizations are experienced in representing tenants who want to break their lease, and they’ve likely seen almost every situation imaginable—as well as a good number of pretty unimaginable situations.
Likewise, if your contract has a clause allowing you to break lease with two months’ notice, toughing it out for a bit longer may not be a terrible option. Even if the conditions in your apartment are pretty awful, you can use the time to investigate your new place to make sure it’ll be better than the current one, or to gather up a group of tenants interested in taking legal action against the poorly managed apartment complex.
No. If you break your lease your landlord can keep your deposit, but can also take you to court for breach of contract, depending on the language of you lease.
The fact that you are afraid of mice is not reason enough to want to break your lease. It may sound silly, but you may want to try getting a cat. It seems to work. If you aren't allowed to have pets then forget it.
Nope, if the mice weren't there when you moved in, your out of luck. You need to hire an exterminator or buy some mouse traps and poison to rid your home. If you leave the home and break your lease, you could be sued for leaving the home with rodents.