I'm looking for some advice on breaking a year long lease that starts in six months, September.
-It currently has three signatures on it, but is for a six bedroom house that usually has four tenant and sublets the other two.
-I'm looking to remove just my name from the lease, the other two signers still want the house, and intend to find tenants, but in their own time. I have offered to attempt to find a suitable replacement to assume my name on the lease.
-Given that the landlord wants four signatures on the lease, is it legal for him to add another tenant to the lease without me resigning? I'm concerned that if I present someone to assume my portion of the lease, he'll just try to add him or her onto the lease without removing me.
-Given the requirement to mitigate actual damages in VA, does giving my landlord six months notice BEFORE the start of a lease limit my possible liability to have to pay him lost rent in September and beyond? Or does that only apply if all of us were breaking the lease?
-How do the other tenants fit into this, do they have any responsibility to help mitigate damages?
And finally is there anything that holds the landlord and/or tenants responsible if an unhabitable level of dirtiness (the reason I'm breaking in the first part) prevents me from finding interested parties to assume my portion of the lease?
Any and all answers would be greatly appreciated.
JAB
-It currently has three signatures on it, but is for a six bedroom house that usually has four tenant and sublets the other two.
-I'm looking to remove just my name from the lease, the other two signers still want the house, and intend to find tenants, but in their own time. I have offered to attempt to find a suitable replacement to assume my name on the lease.
-Given that the landlord wants four signatures on the lease, is it legal for him to add another tenant to the lease without me resigning? I'm concerned that if I present someone to assume my portion of the lease, he'll just try to add him or her onto the lease without removing me.
-Given the requirement to mitigate actual damages in VA, does giving my landlord six months notice BEFORE the start of a lease limit my possible liability to have to pay him lost rent in September and beyond? Or does that only apply if all of us were breaking the lease?
-How do the other tenants fit into this, do they have any responsibility to help mitigate damages?
And finally is there anything that holds the landlord and/or tenants responsible if an unhabitable level of dirtiness (the reason I'm breaking in the first part) prevents me from finding interested parties to assume my portion of the lease?
Any and all answers would be greatly appreciated.
JAB