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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Offer to find a new tenant to take over the lease. If you can find someone that will pass the credit check, etc then the landlord might release you from the contract. Alternatively, you can request that they find a new tenant and pay the rent until they find someone new. Until you talk to the landlord you will not know what they are willing to do with regard to negotiating. I am a landlord and have worked with tenants in 3 of my properties regarding the need to leave the lease early. I let one group go one month early (lost that month), offered to find a new tenant for another (they lost their security deposit to pay the last month, but got out of 4 additional months) and gave 1/2 rent for 2 months to the other group. I worked with the tenants to find solutions after they came to me asking for help. Talk to your landlord, be polite and reasonable.

Bottom line, YOU signed the contract for your kid to live off-campus so you signed into an obligation. It is not the landlord's fault this happened and, truthfully, your kid could live in the apartment. UMD did not require off-campus students to leave their properties. You are simply choosing for them not live there. That is your choice, not a requirement.
However, reasonable people respond to requests for assistance. Calling into question the validity of a contract or the fairness will not get you anywhere. Working toward a solution will, but remember you have a contract which is an obligation. Has your employer stopped paying their rent/mortgage on the space even though they are shut down? Of course not.... [/quote]
Employers are getting either free grants and interest-free loans in order to pay for their rent, so not sure what point you are making. I would happily pay the $1000/month if the government was paying it for me.

The landlord is a apartment building company, not an individual person. As a landlord, what would you do if a renter simply moved out and stopped paying rent?[/quote]

DP, but I would sue.  And win.  [/quote]
Heavily doubt it, you'd lose more on attorney costs than the winnings and most juries would be far more sympathetic to the renter considering the current conditions.

Most likely you'd settle for half the owed amount to avoid going to court. [/quote]

This would be in small claims court, where you represent yourself, and which does not have a jury (and even if it was a jury trial, I'd win on summary judgment).  [/quote]

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