Will Campbell

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:42:13 -0800

If you and your boyfriend have the funds to swing it, why not the two of you find a place and have your boyfriend move into it while you stay for the remainder of your lease. Maybe just maybe the guy you lined up to move in to your current place would be interested in moving in with your boyfriend's current roommate? Just a thought. If that's just pie in the sky you and your boyfriend can always go hardball against your respective landlords/roommates and just move, but it sounds like you'll pretty much be saying sayonara to your shares of the security deposits and potentially alienating your present roomies all to hell. So that leaves softball: you sitting tight and aggravated for the remainder of your lease while your boyfriend does the same and tells his talkative door-slamming roomie under all circumstances to avoid doing anything and everything that might trigger the too-easily disturbed neighbor that could result in an eviction notice. The plus side of that is you'll have a longer period in which to find your ideal new digs and it'll be all the sweeter when you can finally move in. Whichever way you go, good luck!

hollywood

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:30:05 -0800

All the damn landlady is entitled to is "cover." The same profit she would have made had you been there the last 2 months of the lease. Say you moved out with no notice. What would she have to do? Fix up as required and lease to someone new. Her damages would be for the time the place was vacant and the difference she received from a new tenant as opposed to what you paid--probably the same; maybe more from Mr. New. Really not worth her effort to sue you assuming your place is at all desirable and left in decent shape. Of course, she's gonna try and horse you around for whatever security deposit you gave her that should subject to damage be refunded. If there's no deposit, she's pretty much up the creek.

LAist: Moving Sucks.

Will Campbell

hollywood