Can I hijack this a little? We need to renew our lease in June. We’re on year 2 and need to extend.Archived Message
Posted by meanjeans on January 24, 2024, 9:35:51, in reply to "WWTDD?"
Our landlord is a family on assignment in India for 3 years (June ‘22 - June ‘25)
We’re building a house and renting while under construction. Landlord would have been happy for us to sign a 3 year lease from the start, but we thought we’d be in the new house by this summer, so we started with a 2-year lease. Target completion date is December of this year, so we expect to need an extra 6 months, but it could slip into Jan or Feb, so we need some flexibility. I’d say 70% chance we’re done in December.
Landlord is coming back for sure in June 2025, so they could only sublease it for 4 months or whatever. I assume there’s very little chance they could do that, or would want to.
Do we have any kind of reasonable ask here, or are we just signing up for another 12 months even though we won’t need it?
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We have a renter in my wife’s old house. 12 month lease, ends May 31st. Tenant is a recently graduated dr. They are moving back to Durham to work at the main hospital rather than the Raleigh branch.
Last week they asked out of their lease for the whole month of May with a full release of the rent that they would owe that month.
Her and I differed on our response, curious how you would react.