Recent content by Emily W. M.

The landlord only just listed it for sale, knowing that we were moving out earlier than the lease end date. She had originally planned to sell it after our lease ended. In effect, her trying to sell the house is her mitigation effort. If she wasn't trying to sell, it would have been rented by...

It's a house that would be presumably bought by someone who wants to live in it.

So I did already offer this, and she said that she has no interest in changing the lease and needs rent until the end of the term. Is it worth mentioning that she has the duty to mitigate? She seems to think that if she doesn't do anything, she gets rent regardless.

In theory if she posts the place as available for rent, but keeps it up for sale, would that be mitigation? No one would rent a place that is for sale (either as month-to-month or with a move-out clause). How would a judge view that?

Here is the text where she agrees to the Jan 31 end date. I've also included texts showing the four times we asked for the addendum.

I am currently in a 12-month lease in Maine that is up May 31. I went to my landlord Nov 1 and said that I was interested in buying a house and if we could switch the lease to month-to-month. She said yes- but that the current lease would end Jan 31, and then we'd do month-to-month with 60 days...