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Breaking rental lease At the beginining of April this year I asked the landlord…

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Breaking rental lease
At the beginining of April this year I asked the landlord if I could break my lease due to family members illness and my availability to help take care of said family member. Was told that if I could find another person to rent apt then i could get out of my lease. I did but she denied that person because she has kids! Other tenants have kids!! there is also a parking problem here…I have to park with either my front/back end in the main road…i still owe a lot of money for my car and have told landlord that if it gets hit i am responsible because i am in the road…was told that in ??? years no one has ever gotten hit! So…now what do I do? i have already found another place and want to move. Also with my work hours the neighbors kids keep me from getting rest. i work all kinds of different hours and the kids are very nosiy. have called the landlord several times concerning this matter. how do i get out of here legally….my rent and security deposit have already been paid on new place.

Rental Lease Term The first lease we signed was an annual tenancy commencing on…

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Rental Lease Term
The first lease we signed was an annual tenancy commencing on the 16th day of April 06 with no specified end date, though it would be May 31st 07 according to the annual tenancy clause. Our landlord continuously delayed getting the second year lease to us. We continued to pay rent. When he finally delivered the lease to us, it was the end of July, over a year later. Assuming the start date of the second lease would be shortly after the end date of first lease, despite the delay on landlord’s part, it was signed and we stayed another year. It is now May 2008 and we are ready to find a new place to live…however the dates on the second lease read August 1st 07 thru July 31st 08.
As a result of our landlords delay, we signed into a second year lease which actually ends more than a year later. Is there any legal ground on which we can dispute this due to the 3 month gap between the two lease terms?

Rental Agreement I have a ”standard” Michigan Residential Lease Agreement…

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Rental Agreement
I have a ”standard” Michigan Residential Lease Agreement with my landlord. In Section #5 (Rent Payments), second paragraph, it states ”Tenant agrees that if rent is not paid in full on or before the 15th day of the month, Tenant will pay a late charge of $50 as allowed by Michigan law.” I was recently laid-off from my job and my rent was late; however, it was paid well in advance of the 15th of the month. My landlord it trying to collect the $50 late fee and says that the rent is considered late when it is not paid on or before the 1st of the month. Can you please tell me if I am legally responsible to pay the late fee, when I have a signed lease agreement with the above statement in it? I obviously am not an attorney, but the way I interpret this paragraph I don’t believe I should be assessed the late fee unless it is after the 15th of the month. Your professional opinion would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!