Walk It Through: The Job in Another City
A lease with months left, a move for work, a landlord who must try to rent it, and a forwarding address.
In a county under the landlord tenant act, a tenant with months left on a lease gets a job offer in another city.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A tenant who moves out mid lease under the act. Damages beyond rent, a guarantor, and a tenant protected by a court order, who has a separate exit, are not covered here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Security depositMoney a landlord holds against damage, kept in a separate account, with a damage list at move in and move out.
- Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant ActThe rental law in KRS 383.505 to 383.705, which applies only where a city, county or urban county government has adopted it, whole and without amendment.